Glossary

Glossary

A few Satisfactory and factory-building terms used throughout the Smart! wiki.

Term	Meaning
Hologram	The blue/orange build preview you see before placing a building. Smart! changes the hologram preview before you click.
Grid	A repeated layout of the same buildable, such as 10 × 10 × 1 foundations or a row of constructors.
Axis	A direction Smart! can scale or offset: X for width, Y for depth, and Z for height.
Distributor	A belt logistics building that distributes items, usually a splitter, merger, smart splitter, programmable splitter, or priority merger.
Manifold	A repeated factory layout where a main belt or pipe line runs past several machines, and each machine branches off that line through a splitter, merger, or junction.
Factory module	One repeatable chunk of a factory, usually one machine plus its nearby belts, pipes, splitters, mergers, power pole, recipe, and related connections.
Extend	Smart!'s feature for copying an existing factory module and continuing it in a chosen direction. See Extend.
Auto-Connect	Smart!'s feature for creating belts, pipes, or power lines automatically when the preview layout has clear, valid connection targets. See Auto-Connect.
Through-line	The straight part of a manifold that continues to the next splitter, merger, junction, or machine module.
Side branch	The branch from the manifold's through-line into or out of a factory building. For Extend, this is usually the splitter/merger side port facing the factory.

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Last updated: 2026-07-14 · Smart! v34.2.1