Bug #789
VAB: Inability to pick up broken strut
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Description
Picking up a broken (non-connected) strut is sometimes impossible because the strut is (by definition) close to another object
To reproduce: Add X200-32 to bottom of Jumbo tank. Try to add a strut from halfway the jumbo tank to halfway the X200-32 tank. This fails. (Might be by design, might be another bug). Now try to pick up the dummy end strut from the Jumbo tank. Sometimes the strut is so far inside the tank that parts selection picks up the Jumbo tank, regardless of camera orientation and zoom.
Can also happen for fuel lines, but this is rarer.
Windows Vista x64.
Suggested workaround: Have a parts list from which parts selection is possible.
Suggested workaround #2: Have an auto-remove function to remove unconnected struts and fuel lines.
Suggested workaround #3: Have a key to re-select parts under the mouse cursor, ignoring previously selected parts. "one layer deeper"
History
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Updated by APHSpace over 11 years ago
Updated by - Status changed from New to Not a Bug
- Target version set to 0.20.2
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
I have replicated it and found no bug, other than the stated bug where it clips inside the Jumbo tank. The fix for this is to
1. Remember where you put the strut.
2. put a small object on the jumbo tank to cause the strut not to get lost.
I was able to place, and remove the strut very easily.