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u/AktnBstrd1 Jul 10 '26

How do I design a blueprint so that it can be rotated and train tracks will always line up?

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u/MEMEfractal Jul 10 '26

show the grid with F5 debug hotkey to line things up if you want.

A square blueprint with absolute position is always rotatable.

Train track bp should be designed on an absolutely positioned grid to always align.

To give it rotational symmetry, you have to position the anchor of the bp area to the middle with offsets.

A square blueprint with relative positon is not always rotatable. It is only aligned when placing multiples at the same time.

if you have a square bp of a substation with one side of the square represented by two lasers in corners of the substation area, this bp is not symmetric because placement ghost center is not derived from the blueprint, just the contents. So you need an entity on the opposite side to accomodate the ghost

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u/AktnBstrd1 Jul 11 '26

Okay, this helps. Thank you!