Copy/Paste ENTIRE PARTS

[Yawzheek]

So I have a slight problem...

I want to put three satellites into orbit by time a decouple with the tri-coupler. No biggie, or so I thought...

I built the base satellite that would fit properly in the tri-coupler without parts smacking one another, but it won't allow me to copy the ENTIRE probe because of the pod. I'm not finding a work around, except taking the entire base (minus probe pod) and inverting it upside down, which opens a new problem, in that:

1) I'd prefer they all launched the same direction
2) Attacking a probe body at that point is rather pointless, since the body itself is meant to hold a science instrument

Is there any way to copy the ENTIRE thing over?

[Syd Khaos]

Nope...cant copy root part.
The easy way around this is make some other part of the craft the root....like the base the copied parts will attach to.

[Bronski]

Originally posted by SydKhaos:

Nope...cant copy root part.
The easy way around this is make some other part of the craft the root....like the base the copied parts will attach to.

I'm guessing the satellite is attached to the tri part with decouplers? You could just set the decoupler as the root part and save it as a subassembly. Then you could just select it as the sub assembly and attach it to the laucnher.

[Syd Khaos]

OR
You could use the tricoupler as base....build the satellite once, copy it to other 2 spots.

Really several ways to work around something like this....just gotta make sure the root part is NOT part of what ya need to copy.

[AlexMBrennan]

1) You can now change root parts - attach a seperator and tri-coupler, then change the root part to the tri-coupler; after that, you can then copy the sattelite a few times.
2) Since you are talking about sub-assemblies, you can select the entire craft and make it a sub assembly if you shift+click.