How to rotate a part attached to a radial coupler to change the direction it faces

[Dave Kerbin]

You can see I've got a Science Jr. attached to the radial decoupler. However I need to rotate it so that the 'bay' (the part that opens) is facing away from the spacecraft because I need the surfaces on the left and right side of the bay for parachutes.

Using the Q and E keys will change its orientation, but then it doesn't attach to the radial coupler correctly anymore. Is this a limitation of the current tree attachment system? (ie there is only one 'radial' attachment point for the Science Jr.)

Edited October 18, 2013 by Dave Kerbin

[Razor235]

Try playing with WASD as well as QE to get the orientation you need.

[KatzOhki]

I tried to do the exact same thing, it seems like the science jr is glitched as far as this. Q and E are the buttons you'd want though

[nhnifong]

You can't. The surface attach point is on the side. Any rotation besides flipping it upside-down (not what you asked for) will make it clip into the ship.

It's possible to make a copy of the part and change the surface attach coordinates in the cfg file though.

What I usually do for almost all rocket-building gotchas is to make a little string of qubic octogonal struts (the smallest one) with clipping turned on (alt f12 menu option) so that I have a node wherever I need one. However, that part is not entry-level, so yet again, there is a config edit necessary.

Edited October 18, 2013 by nhnifong