Why can't I make this a subassembly?

[photogineer]

I am trying to make a new lifter for my space station project and it won't let me subassemblyize it, any idea why?

Matt

Edited November 24, 2013 by photogineer
Fixed image link (hopefully)

[Roxette]

image link is broken, try again?

[sal_vager]

Link links to a private page I think.

[photogineer]

I think I fixed it.... (the link that is)

Matt

[Jenteb07]

What is your root part? (The part from which you started building this)

[Tuupertunut]

Because you have a full ship that has the starting part in it. You can only make subassemblies of ship segments which don't have the starting part in them. Those segments become transparent when you take them off the ship.

[Steve-S]

You have to have a connection node open on the primary part. That's the first part you clicked on to start the assembly. I just ran into this issue on a lander as I wanted a docking port on top of the can. I left the docking port off and put it onto the lift vehicle saving the lander w/o the docking port as a sub-assembly. Put the docking port under the xfer vehicle and loaded up the lander and it attached to the docking port just fine.

Or it could be as he said above. Speriment and see which works.

[photogineer]

What is your root part? (The part from which you started building this)

It's the center Jumbo64 tank on the upper half.

Matt

[sal_vager]

Try using this so you can fit a pod, change that to the root then subassembly the rocket that you want

[Superfluous J]

If your decoupler is the root part (can those even BE root parts?) then do this:

Drag the rest of the lifter off of the decoupler (or whatever the root part is) and leave it sitting out, grayed out.

Drag a new decoupler in and attach it under your decoupler.

Drag the rest of your lifter and attach it to that 2nd decoupler.

Drag that 2nd decopuler (and the rest of your lifter) into the subassembly box.

[Sirrobert]

It's the center Jumbo64 tank on the upper half.

Matt

When you load a subassambly, the only attetchment nodes available to stick it to the rest of the rocket are the nodes available to the ROOT part. Since your current root part has no nodes available, it's not available for sub assambly.

Start with the stack seperator instead

Because you have a full ship that has the starting part in it. You can only make subassemblies of ship segments which don't have the starting part in them. Those segments become transparent when you take them off the ship.

No, that's wrong. The sub assambly uses the starting part to make connection nodes when you load it. It's also the part you pick up when you drag it towards the sub assambly save thingy

[photogineer]

When you load a subassambly, the only attetchment nodes available to stick it to the rest of the rocket are the nodes available to the ROOT part. Since your current root part has no nodes available, it's not available for sub assambly.

Start with the stack seperator instead

That did it! Thanks, I just removed the decoupler and put it on the part I wanted to lift, and it was able to save as a subassembly.

Matt