Action group "delete debris"?

[strider3]

Is it possible to create a custom action group that will delete all debris? I'm not at all familiar with action groups, BRW. I ask because I've already lost one Gigantor solar array while building my Kerbin space station...due to a wayward stack separator.

[Geonovast]

No.  That would be out of the scope for action groups.

If you want to delete all your debris, go to your game settings, set your max debris to zero, then load the save.  This will delete all your debris.

After this, you can either leave it at zero, which I think is a bad idea, or put it back.  Leaving it at zero would cause the game to delete debris as soon as you generate it, which could, in some cases, be a problem.

If debris is a problem, it's probably best to put that setting at, say, 5.  This way you won't lose something accidentally as soon as you stage it, and 5 pieces of debris won't really slow the game down a noticeable amount.

[AHHans]

Well, action groups are essentially shortcuts for stuff that you can do in the PAW (right-click window) of the parts in the current vessel. I.e. instead of right-clicking on a dozen different solar panels and unfolding them one by one, you can assign that to an action group and unfold all of them at once with the push of a single button.

Can you delete a piece of debris by right-clicking on it and selecting an action in the window that pops up? So: No! You cannot create an action group to "delete debris".

I deal with your problem in two ways: One is that I don't use stack separators, only decouplers or docking ports. (You can also stage the initial decoupling action of a docking port with the staging system.) That way I don't have single stack separators floating around. Sometimes this leads to KSP-style hot-staging, when a rocket engine stays attached to a decoupler and blows its exhaust onto it until said decoupler gets hot enough to blow up. The other is that I only move a vessel after separation (staiging ot undocking) when it is clear of the other vessel. Often enough this means giving it a push with RCS and then waiting for them to drift apart.

[strider3]

I use stack separators because I don't want a decoupler hanging out on my parts...especially when station building...I need the part separated from both ends.

It's rare that a debris part hits my station while constructing it so I think the best remedy, for me, is to just go to the Tracking Station and delete the debris as it's created.

[Geonovast]

If you're building stations, then just use the docking ports as the separators.  The docking port has an attach node in the editor, then you can decouple it either by staging it or by right-clicking on it and hitting decouple.