Learning Resources

BSI offer facilitated training courses at customer sites as well as the free-to-attend MUG and Euro-MAG annual training user-groups. Here you will find links to learning materials that you can use for revision and self-teaching.

User Manuals and Guides

MACE ARMOR Quick Start Guide: Download the latest quick start guide to getting an account, downloading, and setting up MACE and ARMOR
BSI Worldwide Map Server Quick Start Guide: Download the latest quick start guide for using the BSI Worldwide Map server provided on the GIS drive with your MACE purchase
MACE ARMOR Combined Shortcuts PDF: Download the 1-page combined shortcuts PDF

How to find the Manuals

The QUICK menu top left corner of the MACE UI has a HELP button that shows all the documentation available from within the BSI Documentation Browser

YouTube Tutorials Playlist

This playlist contains multiple videos both narrated and/or captioned that explain how to do specific things in BSI software from the very basic setup to more advanced functions. Some key videos are:

Download, Install, License, Setup:

Downloading and Installing MACE
Licensing MACE – Activating a temporary or permanent MACE license
Setting Up MACE Data Paths – Directing MACE to the data it uses for the elevation and mapping

The Basics:

Starting MACE and ARMOR: Basic startup, load, and start mission in MACE and 3D display in ARMOR
MACE Users Manual Tutorial 2: How to add platforms, basics of platform and waypoint properties, changing route speeds and altitudes, moving grouping and deleting, creating basic integrated air defence system (if you watch nothing else to get started, watch this!)
Making ARMOR Terrain: how to use the GIS drive provided with a MACE purchase to generate 3D ARMOR terrain
Road Vectors: Using the GIS drive provided with MACE Open Street Maps Road Vectors to attach vehicles to roads

Intermediate:

Mission Rehearsal Tool – MACE Radio Propagation visualisation: visualise the propagation of radio and see the effect of known jammers
Scripting Example Lesson – Landing Zones: narrated tutorial video in our ‘Use Case Scripting Series’. It focuses on using landing zones for helicopter operations
Scripting an Aircraft Circuit: Narrated tutorial of a simple set of sequential scripts for takeoff, circuit, and land
MACE Use Case Scripting Lesson: Landing Zones: Narrated scripting lesson, progressive from ‘this mission’ specific scripts to ‘any mission’ buttonized scripts – associated training document
MACE Use Case Scripting Lesson – Evasion Maneuvers: Narrated scripting lesson, progressive from ‘this mission’ specific scripts to ‘any mission’ buttonized scripts – associated training document
Small Unmanned Air Systems (sUAS) Plugin: narrated tutorial video describing how to do First Person SUAS training using the MACE plugin
Merlin AI First Setup Steps: narrated tutorial of how to get started with Merlin AI

Advanced:

General Pattern for EW Emitter Configuration: Duplicating and editing a MACE emitter from within a live mission and using MACE/ARMOR visualisation tools to verify the parameters and capabilities.
Radar Creation in MACE: Using the MOCT: to create new equipment, create a new emitter, assign the emitter to equipment, refine emitter, create a mode, test
Creating Radars in MACE: Using the emitter editor
Creating a SPY1 Radar
Adding Platforms to MACE: using the mission object configuration tool to add platforms

BSI University Course Materials and Playlist

The BSI University course materials is a downloadable PDF of the slides used by our instructors when delivering the facilitated training course at customer locations. Within most of the lessons is a student exercise to consolidate the learning from the lesson. The instructor’s solution to each student’s exercise is available on the YouTube channel playlist. These are non-narrated, captioned videos that go through each step of the student exercises.

Training Material Slide Pack Download

BSI-U Student Exercises Videos: