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+This tool can be accessed from both the command line of visual studio. 
+To run the tool from the command line a command of the following format has to be generated:
+
+genmodel <ICD file>  -ied  <ied-name> -ap <access-point-name> -out <output-name> -modelprefix <model-prefix>
+
+The values in <> have to be replaced with the values corresponding to an arbitrary ICD file. 
+To run this command completely the command should look like this: 
+
+ModelGeneratorExample.exe/(dotnet ModelGeneratorExample.dll) genmodel <ICD file>  -ied  <ied-name> -ap <access-point-name> -out <output-name> -modelprefix <model-prefix>
+
+Example: 
+
+ModelGeneratorExample.exe ICDFiles/simpleIO_smv.icd -ied simpleIO -ap accessPoint1 -out  static_model -modelprefix iedModel
+
+or 
+
+dotnet ModelGeneratorExample.dll ICDFiles/simpleIO_smv.icd -ied simpleIO -ap accessPoint1 -out  static_model -modelprefix iedModel
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