Craft File transfers from SPH to VAB

[700NitroXpress]

This is mainly a problem I'm having with rover designs although I could run into this problem with space planes too. Basically, I create all of my rovers in the SPH first and test them on the runway. Since I have a lot of parts attached to the rover body that I started the thing with, I can't detach the rest of it and save it as a subassembly. I also can't put the entire object into the subassemblies area because it's not an attachable part. I want to get the rover into the VAB so I can put it on a rocket and build a transfer vehicle for it. So what I did is, I copied the .craft file from the SPH folder and pasted it into the VAB folder. It put the craft in the VAB in the game and I could manipulate it and do everything I wanted to it, but when I launch it and revert back, it sends me to the SPH first, so any changes that I made that aren't saved yet aren't on the save for the VAB file.

Is there a way to transfer these craft easier?

Is there a way to make the craft load and save only in the VAB when I move the file there?

Also sometimes the symmetry thinks that it's in the SPH when it's in the VAB, any way to fix that too?

Does anyone have workarounds for these issues?

Edited November 7, 2013 by 700NitroXpress

[sal_vager]

You're missing one simple step, open the craft file and change type=SPH to type=VAB

[700NitroXpress]

How do I open a craft file?

[sal_vager]

It's just text, almost any text editor can do it fine, the only one I know will damage the file is wordpad, so don't use that.

[bandit6789]

Right click on the file, then click open with Notepad.

[Jananton]

Notepad probably, it's just an ascii file.

Btw, had the same problem too, but I assume this answer is it. ;-)

Greets,

Jan

[700NitroXpress]

Well, I have Office Word 2003 and Notepad left then, either of those?

[sal_vager]

Yeah either of those will be fine

If they save the file as whatever.craft.txt just change the name back to whatever.craft

[700NitroXpress]

Bingo, so word got angry with me because it doesn't recognize the format, but it said click "No" to preserve formatting and that worked. So everything is fixed!

Thanks Sal!

[Vanamonde]

Be careful, though. A transferred ship can develop weird symmetry issues, including vanishing struts and unwanted duplicate parts.

[700NitroXpress]

Be careful, though. A transferred ship can develop weird symmetry issues, including vanishing struts and unwanted duplicate parts.

This hasn't happened to me tho, so it's all good.