Motorcycle and Building Technique

[Lalror]

Hi all, here is a small moc that I built in around a half hour. Although it is fairly interesting in itself, what is more interesting is the building technique behind it. I am sure a few of you more experienced builders have used this before, and I am also sure that most everybody here knows how to "float" a brick. However, this is something that I have been using for a while now and I thought some of you would find it useful.

Although overall, the motorcycle looks sturdy, this model is actually composed of six individual models that have been placed almost perfectly next to each other. This would obviously never work in real life, but in LDD, you can make some pretty cool models that would otherwise be impossible to build. LDD currently has no way to move bricks around 3D space without having some sort of "lattice." But if you select two different pieces, and move one of them, the other will move also (as shown below).

From here, you can move the pole structure, or even rotate it, to position the floating piece even more. One last tip that will save a lot of clicking and time is that on your selection panel, chose "select by color", and then color your floating piece, and your controller piece the same color.

I hope you liked this mini-tutorial and I also hope that you can use it if necessary.

~Lalror

[nemo]

Simple, and like all great ideas, obvious in retrospect.