Manual Entry of Rotation in VAB/SPH

[Messernacht]

Greetings. Here's one that just occurred to me.

 

Spent an evening trying to get an engine alignment right for a shuttlecraft I'm building for short-distance hops. Using the rotate tool in the VAB, I had to move the engines in various increments to get the balance right, relying on visual points-of-reference. Tedious, time-consuming, and not very accurate.

 

If there was a way to enter in the amount of rotation on the X-Y-Z axis you want specifically on the part, that'd certainly be useful. Kind of like how the Infernal Robotics mod allows you to enter in exactly how far you want a part to move, an interfare that allows you to enter in if you want a part rotated, say, 20.5 degrees off-centre would be quite good.

 

Unless there's a way to do this already that I'm missing. Which is entirely likely.

Edited August 26, 2017 by Messernacht

[TheRagingIrishman]

iirc this lets you manually specify rotation and movement amounts (along with a bunch of other things)

[qzgy]

5 hours ago, TheRagingIrishman said:

iirc this lets you manually specify rotation and movement amounts (along with a bunch of other things)

It does. It allows you to set certain angle snap settings and has a fine adjust mode, but I'm not sure how that works...