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I made a blueprint of some power switches but when I went to use it, the wires were all messed up.

You can see in the pic this is how it was supposed to be.
But this is what I got..
What am I missing here? The blueprint serves no point if I have to manually fix the connections each time.

You're not missing anything. Blueprints can not store copper wire connections between poles. The only thing you can do is place the poles so far from another that they don't automatically connect.

Well that is disappointing. I guess the BP pic led me to believe the connections were retained.

adam_bise wrote: Tue May 28, 2019 6:41 pm Well that is disappointing. I guess the BP pic led me to believe the connections were retained.

Connections are retained, as you can see by the fact that all the switches are connected to their respective power poles. It is the disconnections that are not retained. This is constantly happening to me, and I wish it weren't this way because my OCD hates laying out a power grid, only to blueprint it and it gets all messed up and looks like crap.

The wires between poles and switches ARE saved in the blueprint and used. It's wires from poles to poles that don't connect like in the blueprint.
Pretty much anything you want to do with wires in blueprints can be worked around with knowledge of how to use the poles. Wires from switches weren't saved in blueprints when switches were initially introduced but now you can do cool stuff with them.
Since I've made several posts regarding this topic I have some starting points that you can use to learn how to not connect poles:
Perfect 0~drain Laser: Blueprintable and Chunky!
Power network rate limiter
Minimal Autonomous Radar Setup DaveMcW

csduff wrote: Tue May 28, 2019 6:59 pm It is the disconnections that are not retained. This is constantly happening to me, and I wish it weren't this way because my OCD hates laying out a power grid, only to blueprint it and it gets all messed up and looks like crap.

Also Gandalf makes wires a bit neater.

@csduff. Please read carefully what i said.

eradicator wrote: Tue May 28, 2019 6:23 pm Blueprints can not store copper wire connections between poles.

Also i just had a really cool idea for a workaround. But power-switches can't be directly connected to each other, so there goes that :p.

eradicator wrote: Tue May 28, 2019 7:49 pm @csduff. Please read carefully what i said.

eradicator wrote: Tue May 28, 2019 6:23 pm Blueprints can not store copper wire connections between poles.

Also i just had a really cool idea for a workaround. But power-switches can't be directly connected to each other, so there goes that :p.

I was responding to adam_bise's post, as he did not mention poles specifically, and his post read that connections were note retained. I was merely clarifying that the connection from pole to switch were retained, and manually disconnected poles were not.