Precision parts alignment, especially wheels.

[Galane]

An issue with assembling ground vehicles in VAB and SPH is wheels tend to not get attached perfectly aligned. Even the slightest bit off and your rover will need constant steering correction or your aircraft will not track straight down the runway.

What KSP needs is a way to attach wheels perfectly aligned to any of the orthogonal axes, and possibly a direct text entry box for degrees if for some reason you want your wheels toed in 3 degrees.

This can be edited in the craft file, even in the persistent and quicksave file, but it'd be much better if KSP would just attach the wheels perfectly straight.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/52288-Rover-wheel-alignment

The same would also be useful for attaching other parts. Many times I've built things that would not fly straight, but if I took parts off and reattached them the craft would work, apparently because something worked just a bit differently and the part attached just right.

[MKI]

Yes and no. There are multiple ways around this, i normally put wheels ofset on any straight part for my SSTO's.

The addition of a more accurate attachment could be useful, but it also could be kind of annoying and unnecessary.

[Galane]

Of course it should be possible to override perfectly straight alignment, simply by rotating the part. It should also have a way to snap parts back to perfect alignment.

A plugin with UI additions to set precision angles would be most welcome.

[Mars Mullo]

I agree with Galane.

Often parts are added in orthagonal symetry mode and there totally not symetrical or aligned.

I often have to revert to placing parts individually because I can better accuracy than using symetry.

My Rovers have proven the problems with even minimal non alignment.

Of course we already know the whole building views problems.

I often have to get very clever and build parts in VAB and the the other SAB? building and then create sub assemblies of them when perfect.

This later allows me to make use of the different pros and cons of both assembly buildings when placing parts together.

It's a work around I use because I don't really understand how to type out file contents. Thats akin to having to be good a HTML just to use Excell better. Why?

Besides even attachment points don fit perfectly... shame we can't CAD out builds and import them... or use sketch-up or somthing with parts libraries.

[BudgetHedgehog]

Sounds like a job for Padishars Part Angle Display (heh, Pads PAD).