While the layout is fantastic for compatibility, this is not very paste-friendly for some reason. I probably ground over 200 blocks off my grid with 3 blocks of clearance around all the red guidelines and there were still invisible collisions. I ended up reverting to a pre-grinding save, then pasting it to a piston with a block on top of it, then lowering the whole thing down into a perfectly sized opening with a merge block underneath.

That said once installed, it works like a dream, though my use is a bit off-label. I replaced the welder with a connector and use this to connect my drilling rover to cargo rovers for offloading ore regardless of the size, configuration or position of the pickup vehicle.

This is great, though I'm wondering if there's a way to build all of the multiple grids with the blueprint? I ended up with just the platform, had to drop it on a new rotor and attach, and figure out the arm by looking at your screenshots, plus learn how to use Marmos and rename all the parts.so the script would work correctly

I had a question though, I couldn't figure out what blocks were on the end of the arm near the welder? it looks like welder - hinge - .____? Something barrel shaped with lights on either end?

Wonderful mechanism, it's much more convenient to build with it

@skillnick456 bro shut up you everywhere with this nonsense

@skillnick456 If this 'bitor bit' person has ownership of the "works" he/she can make use of notice-and-takedown under the DMCA. You'd be wise to stop slandering and making false claims of ownership on behalf of another individual you do not represent in any official capacity, or you might find yourself facing consequences that are quite severe, read Steam's TOC/TOS and 17 U.S.C. §§ 512(F).

If I wanted to attach this to a ship and make the piece and grinding head how would I do that?

@skillnick456 What art? This guy is the Original mod creator. mand thats in-game screen shots he took

this art belonged to bitor bit...

Hi, I did the same thing, everything works fine, but there is a problem, the key assignments are completely different, for example, it folds on the space bar, it unfolds on c, all the movements are wrong

@Thayer You need to convert the first moving section from station to ship. It gets stuck when you paste it in.

It dosn't work as expected, the first Hinge group will not lift the rest of the crane.

Won't let me weld the bottom light armor panels underneath in survival?

@SebsenseGreen S6 is the length from R6 to the welder tip (It's set slightly shorter than the tip. Maybe Timotei~'s preference?). In a neutral position this should be in the -Z axis, but R6 has "Offset: -90" moving it up to the X axis.

Rotors/Pistons that are in line with an axis (P4, R5 and R7) can be; before, during or after their respective solid (the math doesn't change). Note that S3 is written as "Solid_LG_" for Large Grid (from R3 to R5). S5 is written as "Solid_SG_" for Small Grid (from R5 to R6).

I hope that this helps and hope that I'm not completely wrong.

Hi @Timotei~
I've been trying to study your configuration for this welding arm and I'm having a hard time understanding the reason for the solid after the Hinge6 part since there is nothing past the hinge in X.

var R6 = new Rotor( Name: Prefix+"Hinge6", Axis: "-Y", Offset: -90, OriMode: 1, Home: -15 );
var S6 = new SolidSG( 5, 0, 0 );

The bit from "Hinge3" to "Rotor5" Including their solids is also a bit confusing to me. It's as if you consider this whole part a solid and then start from the tip of the piston and create another solid...?

Any tips on building this in survival?

Is there a script for this specific arm or do we have to make it in the programmable block ourselves?

@Pyro
Just set the base of it to a station

cant be used in space. Big sad

Man wtf, this is so incredible. The way that it moves is so satisfying. Amazing work !

Ah, so that's why you made the tip parts of small grid block! I get it now

Two words: mass balance. Each subgrids should be lighter than the grid supporting it. Seasoning with some inertia tensor sharing can help too in some cases.

OK tell me the secret ingredient, please. I tested this arm and works so precisely and smoothly, and then I have built exactly the same setup (with the exception that I have a single hinge an the bottom because I have no idea how can you connect two of them at once), copied your code aaand my arm wobbled the shit out of my my server. I even check each rotor and hinge setting but still shaking

Now that's a good thing to reverse engineer. Btw I have noticed my MarmOS arms got wobbly and slow after the Heavy Industry update, does this blueprint takes those changes into account?

Don't mind me i'll just be weaponizing it

Awesome contraption!
Reverse engineering this helped me finally get my head around making arms with hinges; so thanks for that

MArmOS is amaze.