Smartiepants Posted April 9, 2013 Posted April 9, 2013 Guy's in brand spanking new to this LDD stuff as I have only up until now just been building the standard kits as per instructions but have started to look at building other bits, I have downloaded and installed the LDD and had a quick play and downloaded a model from the lego website (ice cream van) and had a play with the various modes but the one thing I cannot find and that's a parts list, it tells me it has 153 parts but is there any way I can get a parts list to see if I have enough bits and if not what to buy to build it, is it obvious and I'm being particularly dumb tonight Sorry for such a simple question but its driving me mad Quote
Sjuip Posted April 9, 2013 Posted April 9, 2013 is it obvious and I'm being particularly dumb tonight @Smartiepants: First of all welcome to the forum. Secondly, I'm not in a position to judge whether your state of mind resembles your avatar name , but here's a hint for your problem. It is possible to have LDD make a list of the bricks used in the model. This is called a "Bill of Material" or BOM. It's one of the menu items under "File": "Export BOM" (or CTRL+B). It generates a list as a XLS-file (MS Excel) and asks you were to put it on your computer. It works in every mode, but only in regular LDD mode the BOM also contains the unique item numbers that TLG uses to identify a certain brick with a certain colour and/or decoration. Quote
Smartiepants Posted April 9, 2013 Author Posted April 9, 2013 @Smartiepants: First of all welcome to the forum. Secondly, I'm not in a position to judge whether your state of mind resembles your avatar name , but here's a hint for your problem. It is possible to have LDD make a list of the bricks used in the model. This is called a "Bill of Material" or BOM. It's one of the menu items under "File": "Export BOM" (or CTRL+B). It generates a list as a XLS-file (MS Excel) and asks you were to put it on your computer. It works in every mode, but only in regular LDD mode the BOM also contains the unique item numbers that TLG uses to identify a certain brick with a certain colour and/or decoration. many thanks for this most helpful, i'm usually not that daft but it was not obvious to me & with me being new to it thought it was easier to ask, many thanks again Quote
obsidianheart Posted April 9, 2013 Posted April 9, 2013 Heck, I've been using it for a while, and I didn't know that! Quote
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