This is driving me crazy. Blueprint snapping

[Spud]

Is anyone else suffering this. I am trying to make a simple platform on the blueprint designer and then add tracks to the top of the foundations. When I come to layout the blueprints side by side they will not snap together. What am I doing wrong?

[Fenix]

You talking about train rails?
Yeah they don't snap between blueprints, Belts and pipes are the same way.
Rail blueprints you need to make with a gap, and then attach the rails manually.

[Famine]

yeah, blueprint foundations never want to line up cleanly with existing foundations. but blueprints are MUCH faster, especially for the overly complicated designs like my 2-floor 5x5 building with 20 smelters inside- one input, two outputs, 600 ore/minute. and so anywhere i want to use it, i need a foundation under where i place it if i want it to line up.

[Spud]

Ah got you. Thanks for your help

[Huren Ogeko]

Originally posted by Spud:

Is anyone else suffering this. I am trying to make a simple platform on the blueprint designer and then add tracks to the top of the foundations. When I come to layout the blueprints side by side they will not snap together. What am I doing wrong?

you can nudge blueprints while placing them but they wont automatically make connections between belts and power lines and probably even rail lines. usually you place the blueprints then make the connections between them afterwards.

[King6Joker7]

There are lots of YT videos showing all the Tips and Trick on glitching your prints together, The Most annoying thing is not having Vertical Nudge, but there are workarounds.

TotalXclipes has great tutorials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2IgXCzHkwo&pp=ygUec2F0aXNmYWN0b3J5IEJsdXByaW50IHNuYXBwaW5n

(EDIT)
This is the vid i meant to post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPdYsM0pAfs&t=715s

[Huren Ogeko]

I would love a workaround for vertical nudge.

[King6Joker7]

Originally posted by Huren Ogeko:

I would love a workaround for vertical nudge.

I got you...

Use Pillars and aim at them to move the blueprint up and down, 4m Foundations work good too

(Edit) here is example:
jUMP TO THE 17:00 MARK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiHVHg8KgLU&t=1243s&pp=ygUbc2F0aXNmYWN0b3J5IEJsdXByaW50IHJhaWxz

[Huren Ogeko]

Originally posted by King6Joker7:

Originally posted by Huren Ogeko:

I would love a workaround for vertical nudge.

I got you...

Use Pillars and aim at them to move the blueprint up and down, 4m Foundations work good too

ohh..that sounds like it would work with the pillars.
nice
I used to use conveyor poles and other things that snap to the floor making the vertical spacing exact. but I never had a way to make the vertical a variable that I can adjust on the fly. I used just have many preset blueprints for various heights and try each of them to find the one that was close enough.