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I need this. +1

Let's give this a nudge, because I've wanted this for aaaaages.

Agreed with the request for a zoom ... and also the ability to edit, even if that ability is limited (add/remove objects but without actual processing in the machines)

Using "train station" Bp and more larger BP sometimes : +1

+1

I want to list my features of this suggestion:

• instead of current “edit”-mode a real editor (technically placing blueprint on empty surface), like the blueprint-lab mod.
• optionally: in that editor enable to stop time in the “real” world
• optionally: like in blueprint lab mod, give player possibility to test the blueprint. Or make it at least simple modable, so that new blueprint-editor-features can be added
• on that edit-surface give player the ability to place/delete any item she/he wants, instead of only delete/undelete
• place and save any other blueprint from here
• player on that surface works like in god-mode
• optionally: during a game this surface doesn’t forget until you clean it. When you enter that surface without clearing, you appear at a new place, but your old constructions are still there.
• optionally: provides mirroring-mode and helps solving problems with symmetry, provides shifting-mode for rails and shows/helps with those problems.
• shows theoretical max. usage/production of electricity, max. Item production/usage, min. Standby power...
• optionally: a mode to “write” letters down to the surface
• control slice, what screenshot of the blueprint will be taken

Here's a blueprint I was wanting to edit. Can't feasably be done, x number of years we'll all have implants in our eyes to zoom in no doubt, but I think adding the option to the game will be far quicker This is a really needed feature Pretty please <3

I want to tweak one constant combinator .... oh for a blueprint editor!!

Oh, this feature was not added.

TL;DR

Blueprints are great; editing them is a hassle; zooming would help.

What ?

Once you create a blueprint, editing is quite tedious. It would help if it was possible to zoom in on a blueprint while you are editing.

Why ?

In the image you can see my cousin's city block; it's wonderful, but it has a few small flaws that I can't see while holding the blueprint. I hope that I am not alone in this.

Thank you, whether or not this is considered.

There is a vast cloud of ideas around a blueprint editor.

Would be quite easy if done similarly to tipps:
An edit button teleports into a world filled with lab tiles with the blueprint pre built
A Save button takes you back and saves the updated blueprint

Well, there is a mod
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Blueprint-Editor
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Kux-BlueprintEditor
Dunno, how that works, but it looks more like a blueprint filter. And it makes me suspicious,that the second is marked as republished from the first.

And there was a mod
https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Edit-Blueprints
I remember this one, that was, what we are talking about here, but it had real problems with bigger blueprints.

With big blueprints it is hard to remove things by hand. Zoom would help with that.

Pan and zoom controls for blueprints would be a fantastic QoL change. Particularly if you're working with things like train stations or nuclear plants.

Merge with Thread from 2017?
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=50130

merged also that thread into here

Thanks Optera! (I remember I searched for “blueprint editor” instead of “blueprint edit*”.)

I would like to second...15th? this idea. I have been working on a little factory blueprint for 160+ hours and this is one of a couple things I have found that would greatly improve the QoL when working with large blueprints.

I'd like for this to be added to the game. Just a bump since there has been no activity on this in a seemingly long time.