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I'm trying to design a tilable, fully rotatable, chunk aligned, chunk sized rail system, all packed with lamps and radars everywhere. And as I'm lazy as f*ck all for automation, I want to add to my blueprints red and green wires, so that if I want to use circuitery to communicate between my base and my outposts one day, I won't have to lay additional wires.

The issue I have is that whilst my rail system tiles perfectly, my power poles don't connect their red/green wires between two blueprints.

Illustration : I found an ugly hack (placing the power poles just astride the border of my blueprint, so that everyone is shared between two, but the result, while functional, is really ugly, and I face alignment issues when rotating my blueprints (the radars collide for example).

Is there an elegant trick, or nothing else than the ugly hack ?

Did you make it like this?
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If you leave out the radars, the straight parts will connect.

Ah I like this thanks for the idea. What I had done so far was this monstrosity : Your solution is exactly what I wanted to achieve And as a bonus, it perfectly fits with my other motives (T junction, U turn, 4 way crossing)

Started fiddling with the new blueprint system this week, also rails blueprints.. I love the new features, , gridsize and absolute placement.