Electric Set Up Question

[Killer Queen]

Hi there, 

I'm pretty new to Rust and was wondering if anyone might be able to tell me if there's a way for me edit the lighting that a friend set up in a base we share. I can link small industrial lights that I've added to our existing electric system, but, only if I re-draw all the wires. I can't connect mine to his. 

Is there a more efficient way to do this?

[sirlagsalot]

As long as you're both authorised on the tool cupboard then you should be able to use the wire tool to remove or add connections to any components in the base - if you want to remove a single connection, hold the tool, look at one of the end points, and hold the right mouse button.

If this didn't help, would you post a bit more detail about what the current layout is, what you want to achieve, and what exactly isn't working?

edit: https://rustrician.io/ can be useful for planning, and sharing designs

Edited January 19, 2022 by sirlagsalot

[Killer Queen]

Thank you for the reply - I will definitely check that out. 

It's the weirdest thing. I can make any edits to the base including "drawing" wires but I can't "add" to an existing electric system that my partner has made unless I "remove" the wire he made and "add" my own. Essentially, he had placed a long line of industrial lights that I wanted to add a few more to when he was offline. I was able to place the lights. I could attach a wire to the end of mine but I couldn't attach it to his unless I re-added the wire to all of them. 

I wound up just waiting for him  to log in and fix it haha xD

[sirlagsalot]

That's very strange - the only times I've had a similar experience to what you describe were when a) I had wired things up backwards and was therefore trying to attach to the wrong end (but in that case nothing was actually working yet) or b) when the object I was trying to connect to was above a car lift or some other large deployable item (it seems like some items have a 'bubble' within which the wire tool refuses to connect to anything else properly).

Anyway as you say, in this case easiest just to let your partner fix it