Laser grid, security laser, (and more?), not rotating?

[Techwright]

Are there items/objects that can never alter direction?  I've been trying to find an answer for this over several days.

 

I've been wanting to use laser grid and security laser.  I've gotten used to the ctrl+alt and shift+alt moves to flip an item, and have several items created by this process in my base.  Laser grid and security laser have a problem for me: their beams extend far too high and right through "solid" object into higher levels.  I'm assuming there's no way to limit the range of the lasers, so I tried flipping them so the beams pass into the "basement" where I'm not doing construction.  Every time I flip the red frame for each, the beam continues firing up.  I've tried using Ceiling, Wall, and the other settings , but am still not seeing a change in direction.   I've got other energy effects that are changing, so why not these?   I think I saw some of the other energy "beams" of various kinds not changing directions as well, but that was a couple of weeks ago while I initially looked into this.  I don't have a Discord account, so if the answer is there, I've no access to it.

[Vexxillion]

I'm not having problems pointing the Security Laser around in different directions, but Laser Grid does seem to only want to point up. If you have space for the laser below, can you just lower it down into the "basement" until it's not clipping into undesirable areas? Also note that this is an item where the fx clone themselves after you move it around and you may not immediately see clearly where the fx end if it's just lowered into the basement. Exiting and reentering the base will remove those cloned fx. I hope this helps!

[Vexxillion]

[Techwright]

1 hour ago, Vexxillion said:

I'm not having problems pointing the Security Laser around in different directions, but Laser Grid does seem to only want to point up. If you have space for the laser below, can you just lower it down into the "basement" until it's not clipping into undesirable areas? Also note that this is an item where the fx clone themselves after you move it around and you may not immediately see clearly where the fx end if it's just lowered into the basement. Exiting and reentering the base will remove those cloned fx. I hope this helps!

Worth a shot!  Thanks!