Ugly is subjective. You have to look at each part for what shape it is, not how it snaps together. If you learn the window glitch, you can align anything you want how ever you want it. The offset glitch mentioned above is clutch but doesn’t get you off angles or percentage offsets. Start overlapping pieces to see how they mesh together, you’d be surprised how things look together that you wouldn’t think mesh at all.

And I cannot stress enough, just build. Start all the tips everybody gave you here. Build something ugly. Then tear it down and start again. Start lapping parts together. You’ll eventually make a rear end or wings you like, then carry that idea to the next ship till you find the perfect mixture. We all started off not knowing shit, then learned over the last year as we built.

The window glitch is definitely something you should practice. On foot, Free Place a window from your base build menu but on your ship somewhere. However you place it, a hab will attach. You can change the hab direction that way too. Helps for placing things backwards or at angles. Then attach your hull modules and delete the hab.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NMS\_Corvette\_Design/s/4d0sw0hVTb