Locking parts in VAB, so they can't be moved?

[johnnyhandsome]

Is there anyway to do this? When building larger ships and in particular adding struts, it would be great to be able to lock down a part so it can't be physically moved anymore. Otherwise wayward clicks wind up moving around various pieces and then you're veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery carefully trying to put everything back where it was.

[Hyomoto]

Unfortunately at this time no, you really just have to learn to be a bit careful, hope undo works or save often. Those are the things that will save your work! Perhaps in the future they would do this, but I question how it would actually be implemented. Perhaps just swap the function of shift-click and regular click? It wouldn't be perfect but it would have a bit of desired effect by adding a 'safety' to your mouse.

[johnnyhandsome]

Well shoot. Currently I just save a often, especially when placing struts, and force quit if an something large with many attachments is mistakenly clicked on.

[Johnno]

Well shoot. Currently I just save a often, especially when placing struts, and force quit if an something large with many attachments is mistakenly clicked on.

Ctrl-Z to undo. Autosave is about every 5 seconds, so undoing a misplaced strut/picked up piece usually only undoes one or two items you've placed, depending on placing speed.

Whenever I pick up a whole booster/symmetry item I just delete it then hit undo. Usually isn't a problem at all.

[Rocket Farmer]

Ctrl - Z is actually really handy. Last night I was building a 3 tank high 21 mainsail design (2 orange, 1 small silver, mail sail and all required strutting). I built the first 2 rocket addemblies with struts and all. Then I disconnected the 2nd built "child" rock and put it to the side. Then I hit Ctrl- z and it replaced the original rocket back onto the design but also let the entire faded out one I removed. I then (using symmetry) bolted that onto my rocket. Rinse and repeat and in 5 minutes I had 42 orange tanks, 21 hear sink small tanks, 21 main sailed and about 200 struts all identical.

It's basically a copy and paste feature and it can save loads of strutting time.

[Johnno]

It's basically a copy and paste feature and it can save loads of strutting time.

Or you could use the intended copy function, Alt + leftclick.

[KerbMav]

Reminds me of Grover and Kermit: "Stairs, which stairs?? *breath,puff,cough*

[johnnyhandsome]

"Or you could use the intended copy function, Alt + leftclick."

Wait, huh? What is the dark, unknown sorcery you speak of?!

[Payload]

Unfortunately at this time no, you really just have to learn to be a bit careful, hope undo works or save often. Those are the things that will save your work! Perhaps in the future they would do this, but I question how it would actually be implemented. Perhaps just swap the function of shift-click and regular click? It wouldn't be perfect but it would have a bit of desired effect by adding a 'safety' to your mouse.

They could easily add an extra option in the action group settings menu. Every part could just have a "Lock position to parent" button. That part is really simple. Actually locking the position of objects to the parent without causing other problems seems like it would be more difficult.