I feel a little embarrassed (dumb) that I am having this problem.
I can't seem to get the hang of rotating the ship hulls after adding, or to place parts. I haven't found a way to select the entire ship including all parts. No problem with the individual parts, just the ship as a whole.
I never had a problem with GCII and I really enjoyed designing ships, but I just can't seem to get the hang of this system and the rotating apparatus. It is like I am somehow missing a control to do what I want to do. Is there a wiki or a tutorial on it anywhere?