Hinges in LDD

[LEGO Shop Girl]

Ok so I'm trying to do a build that opens up using LDD only I can't seem to get the hinge pieces to work, i.e. they only want to go in straight lines and not at angles.

I'm I just bad at using LDD or is there some trick I haven't learned yet?

[Lego Otaku]

Ok so I'm trying to do a build that opens up using LDD only I can't seem to get the hinge pieces to work, i.e. they only want to go in straight lines and not at angles.

I'm I just bad at using LDD or is there some trick I haven't learned yet?

Rotate tool, on top of the screen. Looks like a mini fig hand with a circle arrow around it.

Click the hinge piece you want to rotate, then click and drag the mouse to rotate it. LDD is smart enough that if you click (for example) the hinged 1x2 brick in the middle of a set, it will rotate the whole section with the hinged brick. Alternatively, you can enter number in degrees on top of the screen, useful if mouse dragging isn't working well or if you need precise angle.

Occasionally it rotates the wrong way though. Once I wanted to raise minifig's arm but when I rotated it, the arm remained stationary. Instead, the whole 2000+ piece MOC got flipped upside down. :/ ctrl-Z works to fix that odd rotate mistake.

Edited May 15, 2011 by Lego Otaku