Space Engineers 2 Large Drill (Drill 5.25m) is bugged. Cannot connect to small conveyors.

1 side of the drill the small conveyer hangs about 1 frame thickness away from the side of the drill. The other port is unable to have a small conveyer placed period. You can connect the hovering conveyer to a small port on your ship and will hold in place while moving around

It will not however be connected to the rest of the cargo network despite being "connected" enough to hold it in place

I am not able to add to one side of the 5.25m drill due to the .5m conveyor port not being mountable. The auto block placement will not align to it and using the ctrl key to position the conveyor over the top of the port is not allowed - red zone.

Update: I've been playing around and suddenly was not able to align to the port on the other side of the drill that had been working. I then discovered that I could align the conveyor to the port if I first moved the conveyor around the mount points on a non-port side of the drill and the walk it over to the port. After I did this, it allowed it to align normally each time afterwards. I was not able to get the original port issue resolved; the conveyor won't align no matter what I try.

When holding the ctrl key down the port on the drill is NOT aligned to the .5m grid. The center of the port is between two grid lines.

Alexander Carr shared this feedback 58 days ago (This bug still exists)

"While looking at my newly unlocked 5.25m Drill, I noticed that that the actual model is shifted .25m from where it's connection "squares" are. I haven't used it yet, No idea if this causes problems."

I have noticed this as well + the drill is on (spinning) by default when placed.

Please reference the attached image to reproduce the issue.

When I say "rotate" it is with the ctrl-E

On large drills, only one side of the drill is allowed to be placed next to another block. If you try to place one and the bounding box is read/not allowed, you can rotate the drill until the one allowed side allows the drill to be placed.

A quick example would be to look at the left and right most drills. As you can see the connector side of the drill is up against another block.

The drill is not centered in its bounding box, so only 1 of the 4 sides will connect next to another block. This one side is closer to the drill than the other 3 sides. If you have a flat armored surface and project the large drill so that the drill head is facing you, you can see that 3 of the sides take up half of the block it is projecting on while one side of the drills bounding box only takes up 1/4 of that width. Basically, the drill is not centered in its bounding box and 3 of the 4 sides need to be reduce 50% to match the one side.

Another issue this causes is that if you project the large drill onto a flat surface and then rotate it, 3 of the sides keep the drill in the same place in the projection while the narrow bounding side moves the drill way out of where it was positioned. You can keep rotating to see the mounting positions change when they hit the one short bounded side. Again, you can put a large armor block down and project the large drill to mount to the armored block, rotate the drill and you will see it is the same position on 3 of the 4 sides.

I was poking at a drill ship with 2x3 large drills. I was having a lot of trouble even getting drills laid out with some scaffolding. It wasn't working as expected, so I took a close look at the block

I'm not sure what the technical description is here, but it seems like the model and the model's hit box/attachment points are misaligned. It seems like the model is shifted slightly over.

Refer to the 4 images: drill-r#.png. Each one is a quarter rotation around the long axis. These show the base fully on a block, while the overhang and gap rotate around.

When I lay this flat with the drill head hanging off an edge and rotate around the long axis, the block shows different attachments and jumps around. Refer to the 4 images: drill_flat-r#.png.

I suspect this misalignment is what's driving some set of people's problems with this block, or it's at least a more direct description of a drill problem.