[MOC LDD] Deep Space Mining Ship

[OLDNUT]

The project is posted in the Sci-fi Forum with more pics. It was start with the singular goal to see how many bricks could be put into a single LXF file before my computer stop working. At 16009 bricks the designer ran out of ideas. More can be added I am sure but now is the time to report the on the hardware/software used.

The computer is a 27 inch iMac model 11,3 with Intel Core i5 at 2.8 GHz. The memory is 4 GB. Graphics set is ATI Radeon HD 5750 with resolution of 2560x1440. The software user was MAC OS X 10.6.8, LDD 4.3.8-1564.2, Bram’s Sphere Generator (Lowell sphere), Bricksmith 2.6.1, TextEdit 1.6, Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1, GIMP 2.8.14.

Conclusion: Patience is required by the user after 11K bricks and watching the color wheel spin becomes a habit as the LDD works on the command. All tools continued to work to the end the. Hinge align tool was not test at all. Importing files require planning before hand. Know were the connection point is and multiple opportunities for connection will cause difficulties.

[Superkalle]

Lovely picture.

To be interesting to other builders here in the LDD forum (I'm thinking benchmarking), it'd be great if you can also share the LXF.

Also, for the future, please make the image a tad smaller. We have a limit of around 1024 pixes in the forums to reduce bandwidth consumption in general (loading on mobile devices etc).

Thanks