Tighten Cables / Pipes to prevent sagging

[pastel vector]

A hotkey to tighten low sagging cables / pipes would be

I'm imagining 2 scenarios here:

1. While holding the cable, press a key to tighten, then put it into the machine

-# In this case an additional auto-tighten hotkey would be beneficial, since putting cables on the ceiling would still have them without it sag. Auto-tighten would then tighten the cable after it was placed

2. (much better imo) A hotkey that only shows when hovering an already fully attached cable. This would beat low sagging cables over long distances and ceiling cables at once while also not giving an overwhelming amount of hotkeys during cable placement

Tighten Cables / Pipes to prevent sagging

[flat crescent]

Or loosen. I'd love to hang a cable over a railing and lower it to another platform that's hard to jump to, so I can take the circular route and reach over a rail to the dangling cable and plug it in.

Also, the cables that plug in at awkward angles could use loosening so they don't look so badly kinked.

[hybrid pagoda]

It wouldn't be bad to be able to throw the end-y bit like a physics object. Get it under railings without having to do the parkour frame-perfect challenge or up somewhere that would otherwise need more than the 20m to maintain connection to get up to.

[flat crescent]

I usually build an extender right up against the rail, because the cable spawns in on the other side.

[quiet bloom]

Agreed, and perhaps such tightened up cables could then be disconnected from the physics engine to improve performance and cpu load.