Multiple attachment points?

[jjrobinson2]

How do I attach things, like strap-on boosters, wings, etc., to multiple points at the same time during construction?

[desrtfox071]

turn on symmetry. There is an icon in the lower left of the screen. Usually it looks like a dot with a circle around it concentrically.

[Manwith Noname]

Originally posted by desrtfox071:

turn on symmetry. There is an icon in the lower left of the screen. Usually it looks like a dot with a circle around it concentrically.

The symmetry icon is a square that changes to two squares for mirror and a sliced circle for rotational symmetry from memory. The dot inside a circle is angle snap, which changes to a dot inside a hexagon, I think.

I typically have editor extensions installed though so might be mixing something up.

[desrtfox071]

Originally posted by Manwith Noname:

Originally posted by desrtfox071:

turn on symmetry. There is an icon in the lower left of the screen. Usually it looks like a dot with a circle around it concentrically.

The symmetry icon is a square that changes to two squares for mirror and a sliced circle for rotational symmetry from memory. The dot inside a circle is angle snap, which changes to a dot inside a hexagon, I think.

I typically have editor extensions installed though so might be mixing something up.

Oh yes, thank you for correcting me. I use editor extensions as well.

[MechBFP]

You don’t. You have to use struts instead for the other connection points.

[desrtfox071]

Originally posted by MechBFP:

You don’t. You have to use struts instead for the other connection points.

Struts have nothing to do with attaching things "like strap-on boosters, wings, etc., to multiple points at the same time during construction". I'm not sure what you are trying to answer, but I know you well know that struts are useful for making a vessel more rigid, but they have nothing to do with actually attaching parts.

[Ogre420]

This might help...

https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/158136-17x-recoupler-release-thread-monocouple-your-bicouplers-v133/

[desrtfox071]

Originally posted by Ogre420:

This might help...

https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/158136-17x-recoupler-release-thread-monocouple-your-bicouplers-v133/

Ah, maybe this sort of scenario is what MechBFP was referring to.

[Jupiter3927]

Turn symmetry on and everything should snap on the way you want.
Attachment nodes have to be in symmetry (as in placed by symmetry) for this to work.

[MechBFP]

Originally posted by desrtfox071:

Originally posted by Ogre420:

This might help...

https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/158136-17x-recoupler-release-thread-monocouple-your-bicouplers-v133/

Ah, maybe this sort of scenario is what MechBFP was referring to.

It’s also what the OP is asking if you read his post.

[desrtfox071]

Originally posted by MechBFP:

Originally posted by desrtfox071:

Ah, maybe this sort of scenario is what MechBFP was referring to.

It’s also what the OP is asking if you read his post.

No, I don't see that at all. I believe the OP was asking "How do I attach things, like strap-on boosters, wings, etc., to multiple points at the same time during construction". That's a symmetry question IMHO, having really nothing to do with re-attaching, or more accurately - anchoring -multiple main bodies (which is what recoupler is for).

In any case, I think we've probably covered the OP's question.

[jjrobinson2]

If I understand the responses, that's not my problem. I want to attach, for example, a booster to two radial separators on each side, so that it doesn't buck around on the single attachment point. Struts evidently wouldn't let go when a part separates, unless the force tears them off.

[Manwith Noname]

Struts will break when placed across stages.....or at least they should and used to.

[MechBFP]

Originally posted by jjrobinson2:

If I understand the responses, that's not my problem. I want to attach, for example, a booster to two radial separators on each side, so that it doesn't buck around on the single attachment point. Struts evidently wouldn't let go when a part separates, unless the force tears them off.

Struts will break when a stage occurs, no worries about that.

So like I was like saying, struts is the only way to accomplish this, without the "recoupler" mod linked above.

[Manwith Noname]

I'm not sure the recoupler mod works in the situation described, two radial decouplers attaching to a single booster. I think it works by detecting two attach nodes in close proximity and joining them if they are not joined.

Still, it's a good mod to have installed if you ever build within its intended purpose and really, the stock game should be doing it anyway.

[MechBFP]

Originally posted by Manwith Noname:

I'm not sure the recoupler mod works in the situation described, two radial decouplers attaching to a single booster.

It sure does, read the mod thread.