UI/UX Icons Trapping Subassemblies/ Wing Symmetry After Grab and Place (Video: Studio Report /meme-less)

[Socraticat]

2 bugs to report:

1. Procedural Icons trap subassemblies/ Cursor Selects Icon rather than letting assembly be placed.
   • Happens often- more often when more wings or parts with icons are used
   • Solution: Trash Assembly, CTRL+Z to Undo
   • Behavior effect: Saves more often (ctrl+z can be destructive); more carefully chooses camera zoom and placement before "grabbing"
2. Wings sometimes switch from mirrored to radial after placement/ One wing will become "upside-down" after placement

• Happens almost every time. For example, my shared craft "R2-Redo" usually pastes OK from a text file, but maybe it will suffer the same fate after a pick up and place.
• Solution: CTRL+Z to revert to prior state (Halts build progression), Replace Wing.
• Behavior effect: Fix wings last, Pick up assembly less.

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[Chris Windle]

This one happens to me all the time and it is very easy to reproduce.  The easiest way is with small parts (that have not much to grab onto) that have the wrench icons to size them.  For example, start with a blank VAB and add the XS Payload Fairing.  Then attach an xs decoupler on top of it.  Now, select the combined object.  Congratulations, you now can't put it down because instead it activates the Fairing creation.  But, since you are cursor is over the wrench and it stays there, clicking will just toggle in and out of edit fairing.  You also can't delete it for the same reason.  One way to get unstuck is to attach it to something, hold down the mouse button and move the mouse outside the wrench circle and let go. But, this requires you to have a part already there to attach it to.  Sometimes switching to out of the program to another Windows window and back can allow you to get unstuck, but this is rare.  Another way out is to hit Escape and exit the VAB to somewhere else and then come back again.