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Grid Scaling
Grid Scaling is the main Smart! feature. It lets one build-gun preview become many buildables.
Use it for:
- Big foundation pads.
- Rows of machines.
- Storage walls.
- Repeated walls, ramps, barriers, and other simple buildables.
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5 x 3 x 1foundation grid preview with HUD counters visible.
- Equip a buildable.
- Aim where you want the first buildable to go.
- Increase X, Y, or Z until the preview matches the layout you want.
- Click once to build the whole grid.
Smart! shows the full preview before you commit. Every copied buildable costs materials.
| Axis | In plain language |
|---|---|
| X | Forward/back from the starting buildable |
| Y | Left/right from the starting buildable |
| Z | Up/down layers |
The exact direction follows the buildable's rotation. If you rotate the hologram, the grid rotates with it.
Smart! can grow a grid in the opposite direction by using negative values. This is useful when the starting point is on the far side of a layout and you want the grid to grow back toward you.
Smart! is built to scale far. Grids of many thousands of buildings stay responsive, and growing a grid only adds the new part — everything you already placed stays put instead of the whole preview redrawing. Jumping straight to a very large grid fills in progressively over a moment or two rather than freezing while everything appears at once. (Extremely large grids are still bounded by how much the game engine can hold at one time; Smart! will warn you as you approach that limit. If a placement is too large for the game to accept in one click, Smart! now refuses it with a "Placement too large" message instead of failing silently — your preview stays up, so just scale it down a step or two, place, and continue the grid from there.)
Smart! works best with standard buildables that have a known size and normal placement behavior. Some special Satisfactory holograms are more complicated and may need dedicated Smart! support.
Pole-style buildables scale too — Conveyor Poles, Pipeline Supports, and Pipeline Wall Supports — and Smart! carries their height (and a pipeline support's top angle) across the whole line. When you scale a line of supports, Smart! can also build the belt or pipe run between them; see Auto-Connect.
Single- and double-sided Wall Outlets Mk.1-Mk.3 support grid scaling with a 1 m default interval. Their power previews respect each outlet face's connection capacity.
If a buildable does not scale correctly, try a smaller test first and report the buildable name in an issue.
Last updated: 2026-10-06 · Smart! v34.4.0