The Annoying Node Placement Glitch

[Tex]

I'm sure we've all had an experience with it. Many spacecraft have to be completely redesigned around it.

I'm talking about the Node Placement glitch. Sometimes when you try to place one part on another part (no pun intended), they completely freak out. It's a bit like a slot machine, actually: There's a set pattern for the flickering parts, but you only have a one-in-a-thousand shot to actually place it correctly.

I'm getting a bit tired of it, myself, and I know I'm not the only one having this problem. Even Scott Manley can be seen struggling with it occaisionally. For some things, the fix is simple: For an inline battery, for example, you could just flip it upside down and it's just fine. But I, for one, have been wrestling with some docking ports for 15 minutes before just giving up.

Has anyone else had some severe troubles with this glitch?

(Squad, please fix! Pweeeeeeeeease! )

[tetryds]

If you pan the camera and get nearer the spot you want to place it becomes a lot easier

But if you abusing part cliping that's pretty much expected

Can you provide a pic of the craft and mark the spot you trying to get your port at?

[Tex]

For some reason (I have tried, FYI), I can't upload pictures... I'll have to start using Imgur eventually. And I've also already tried moving the camera around; it doesn't help, and I'm not using clipping.

[Themohawkninja]

Do you mean the glitch where it places like 1000 copies of the part on that one node?

P.S. Was that not-intended pun supposed to be a Monty Python reference?

[Tex]

No, I mean that the part will start freaking out and jumping all around as you are trying to place it. I'm not sure if this is a localized glitch now or something, because I remembered that a lot of people had it... I wonder what happened.

P.S. No, it was not, unfortunately.

[Themohawkninja]

I can't say I've ever had that issue. Are you sure it's not just your cursor getting so close to other parts that the ghosted part jumps onto an unintended part?

[tetryds]

Are you talking about Structural Panels?

Yeah those are sometimes a pain to place things on.

rotate them if you having issues, some positions makes that a lot easier.