What I did in the end was to use the SW model, upload it in Blender and make the animations there (control surfaces mostly) and on the other hand build my model in Plane Maker. I added the Blender model in Plane Maker as an object and make invisible the model in Plane Maker so that the “pretty” plane will show but behind it will be the ... More @Wikipedia
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