When reconfiguring a control panel, it can be placed in the creator and disassembled. If it your intention for the panel not to be returned?

It is a bit expensive in terms of iron and copper for the item to be replaced every time a panel needs adjusting.

Thanks for the mod, its fun and your videos explaining how to use the mod.

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I suppose this is intentional since it’s documented in the manual (“The top button on the left (D) disassembles an existing control panel when it is placed in the slot beneath the button: The components of that panel are placed in the GUI, allowing them to be repositioned. The casing is lost in this process.”)

That makes some sense from a realism point of view. If you take an existing control panel and want to recycle it, you can take all the buttons and gauges out and reuse them, but what you’re left with is a metal casing with a bunch of holes punched in it where the controls used to be. It might make sense to allow new controls to be added to an existing panel (punching new holes in the casing) but moving or removing existing ones seems a bit unrealistic.