VAB Part fine tuning

[Monkeystador]

Is there a way to fine tune the positiojn of partS?

I imagine a feature where you could just hover over a part and click into fine tune mode of a part and the adjust the position and orientation with the keyboard in very fine increments.

Edited April 21, 2013 by sal_vager

[sal_vager]

Hi Monkeystador, just hold the shift key then press W A S D Q E

[Monkeystador]

thats not what i meant. I like to fine tune the parts after they have been attached.

Edited April 22, 2013 by Monkeystador

[Jason Patterson]

Nope, the best you can do is pick them up and replace them, rotationally as sal suggested and their positions by zooming very close in.

[prograde]

I've also been wondering this; how is everyone building such symmetrical designs? By painstakingly zooming in on every part to get it placed correctly? What do you use as reference?

Some way of snapping parts to exact positions would be great

[HoY]

press C, that will enable the snap to grid.

[Epic DaVinci]

I've also been wondering this; how is everyone building such symmetrical designs? By painstakingly zooming in on every part to get it placed correctly? What do you use as reference?

Some way of snapping parts to exact positions would be great

Pressing X will turn symmetry on, then you only need to place 1 iten and 2,3,4,5,6 will appear, if you press C that will snap the placement to a hexagonal point shape, press C again, and your free to place where you like.

[Eric S]

I've also been wondering this; how is everyone building such symmetrical designs? By painstakingly zooming in on every part to get it placed correctly? What do you use as reference?

Some way of snapping parts to exact positions would be great

I will confess that when doing asparagus staging designs, I have no qualms about hand-editing the file to get the placement I want, though I only edit the vertical position for the most part.

[UmbralRaptor]

I've also been wondering this; how is everyone building such symmetrical designs?

Some way of snapping parts to exact positions would be great

Are you using symmetry? (x key)

I will confess that when doing asparagus staging designs, I have no qualms about hand-editing the file to get the placement I want, though I only edit the vertical position for the most part.

Try editing settings.cfg and setting VAB_ANGLE_SNAP_INCLUDE_VERTICAL = True

Or use deadbeef's edtools.

Edited April 23, 2013 by UmbralRaptor

[Eric S]

Or use deadbeef's edtools.

Thank you, I hadn't been able to find that link since the great oops.

[benburch]

Problem is that you are using two degrees of freedom to control three degrees of motion.

What I would really like is the ability to touch a spot on a part and touch a spot on another part and have them move together until the spots are adjacent.

I'll have a look at the deadbeef stuff when I am out from this firewall and can see dropbox.