Mirroring Ship parts by blueprint sections (from clipboard).

[thefinn88]

Let us imagine I have a ship body in my creative world.

Let us further imagine I have a nacelle full of engines for one side of the ship - but not the opposite side. I want the sides to match up - how do I mirror the nacelle onto the other side of the ship?

I tried in build mode, but it seems that only does blocks, not pasting in the clipboard...?!

[cptsavarus]

You don't. The feature you're asking about doesn't exist... though it would be an extremely useful tool if it did.

The only way to "mirror" entire grid sections to be left or right handed is to build rotational symmetry into them from the beginning, then rotate them. You can then join them together & use block symmetry to add in any other blocks you might want.

It's a really good idea though & a lot of people would probably go for it - you should suggest it on the new KSH feedback pages...
https://support.keenswh.com/spaceengineers/general

You'll need to set up an account to log in & post (if you don't already have one) Note you can't log in to these pages with the same credentials as the KSH forums or old feedback site. For now at least.

[thefinn88]

Yeah I had kind of done that, but I modified one side heavily and wanted it to be the same on the other without having to do it by hand... I already did it but it was a pain.

I kind of guessed there was no such thing :)

And yes, it's a pity - it would allow for modular ship parts to be blueprinted and modified far easier.

[thefinn88]

I sent it over to them anyhow, good idea.

[cptsavarus]

Don't worry, we've all been there!
It's easy to forget to turn symmetry on and get carried away making changes. Happens to me all the time. You're right, it's a pain!

Since Keen are still welcoming suggestions I'm a bit more optimistic that they're not done adding things, so hopefully we'll get that tool to mirror whole grids now you've suggested it,