How to use cargo bays. Help please.

[SmashBrown]

Hi folks, thanks for your time. I am currently playing around with building my own spaceplane, first time i have tried, however, i can't get the cargo bay to function properly in the SPH, i want to put a fuel payload in to refuel my spacestation, and various interplanetary craft i will eventually have in LKO, but i am having a problem making the part clip properly into the cargo bay. Here's the screenshots.

Edited December 28, 2014 by SmashBrown

[Anquietas314]

Hold MOD(Alt on windows) while placing the cargo. That'll force it to only connect via the node, which is what you want. Given the length of your cargo, it might flex and clip through the bay anyway, in which case just secure it with struts Obviously that complicates things when you're returning something of a similar size, but an old expression regarding crossing bridges comes to mind

[SmashBrown]

Hold MOD(Alt on windows) while placing the cargo. That'll force it to only connect via the node, which is what you want. Given the length of your cargo, it might flex and clip through the bay anyway, in which case just secure it with struts Obviously that complicates things when you're returning something of a similar size, but an old expression regarding crossing bridges comes to mind

Aha! Brilliant thankyou.

[Anquietas314]

Aha! Brilliant thankyou.

No problem