Size of stock Drill-o-Matic

[Krakatoa]

I'm in the process of making a command pod, with the intention that it be used for asteroid harvesters. Planning on having flat areas for attachment on the sides of the pod, primarily for drills, but they're flat areas, use 'em for whatever. I do want to make sure they're far enough back, though, so does anyone know the length of the swing arm collider of the large stock drill when deployed? I don't need to be breaking the ship off of a captured asteroid when sending in the drills.

[Spricigo]

Someone may eventually post a picture and say 'is that big'.

But why you don't just see it for yourself in the VAB/SPH ? Just open your craft, place a drill and select deploy.

[Krakatoa]

18 minutes ago, Spricigo said:

Someone may eventually post a picture and say 'is that big'.

But why you don't just see it for yourself in the VAB/SPH ? Just open your craft, place a drill and select deploy.

That mostly serves my purpose, but I am hoping for more of a numeric value so I can be accurate with the model, rather than "eh, close enough."

[FrostedShoe]

Test it on the launch pad, if when you deploy, it raises the craft, you need to move them away from the ground!

[Krakatoa]

1 hour ago, FrostedShoe said:

Test it on the launch pad, if when you deploy, it raises the craft, you need to move them away from the ground!

Aye, I'm modelling a brand new part, though, so I'm trying to get the scale right. It seems to be roughly 3m for the collider, so I'll just roll with that.

[Dman979]

Moved to modeling subforum.