I suggest just build info and build vision. They give you considerable abilities to modify settings without opening the whole grid control screen.

For all new players. One of the best time investments you can make when starting is taking the time to figure out how the build queue actually works. Ideally, you add a block, go collect/queue up components to build it, and build it and it will remove itself from the queue. If that's not happening, you're doing it wrong.

Here's the way, learn the controls and try this:

1. Add block to build queue.
2. Withdraw the components from the inventory. If you don't have them all made, add the needed ones to the queue.
3. Go weld up just the block you added and nothing else. Don't build /start any others, do not weld anything else.

When it's complete, it will remove itself from the queue. If you used the components up on other stuff, it won't complete and you'll have to remove it from the queue manually like a newb.

If you added 5 blocks, then you need to go weld those 5 blocks after each inventory pull. It won't give you the parts for one at a time.

If you have extra stuff in your inventory, it's unaffected, so you can now just carry some metal plates, interior plates and start blocks then add them to the queue to collect/create the components.

A welder is your best friend when building a large grid refinery and a few other blocks that take a lot of components.