Snap Modular Girder Segment XL together

[cygnus008]

I've been doing Kerbal for a couple of months and one of the things that is really frustrating is attaching things to other things. I.e. I want to take 4 girders, lay them side by side,  and make a quad strength girder. These would be lengthwise with each other and then attach them to the end of a diameter reducer "cone" . The problem is when I  they get totally out of alignment and I don't get a good looking strong girder.  

ORB8TER does it in his tutorial "Kerbal Space Program Tutorial Building a Space Station Part 1"  at about 10:15. I have looked at this about 50 times in slomo and frame by frame . well not that but almost. He does it in about15 seconds and so it can be done but I am missing something.   I have tried it with "snap to" both on and off. I have tried it holding the alt key down.

I am using KSP ver 1.12.4.3187

I ain't stupid cause I'm an Oracle DBA for a lot of years so I can figure stuff out but this problem is killing me.  I want to go on and build on top of this but have to get this girder first.

Another point of interest is I am running this on a Macbook M1 and it is really fast.  I put a bunch of atmospheric mods on and it looks really great.  There is no pixilation, The action is smooth and continuous.  I have several other mods and they all seem to run as they should on osX

[Vanamonde]

Since this is not about KSP2, the thread has been moved to the support sub. Good luck with your issue.

[Bej Kerman]

18 hours ago, cygnus008 said:

I've been doing Kerbal for a couple of months and one of the things that is really frustrating is attaching things to other things. I.e. I want to take 4 girders, lay them side by side,  and make a quad strength girder. These would be lengthwise with each other and then attach them to the end of a diameter reducer "cone" . The problem is when I  they get totally out of alignment and I don't get a good looking strong girder.  

Use 4x symmetry and you won't have to put them together manually. The transform widget (shortcut: 2) can be used for fune adjustments

If stacking girders is what you're trying to do, the girder needs to be rotated so one end joins with the other. Use WASD with the next girder grabbed to spin it until it's aligned then hold alt so it snaps.

Edited January 16, 2023 by Bej Kerman
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[cygnus008]

I had been trying to do that and tried it a couple of more times and it worked!

Thanks