Jaco

OK, so now that I am into doing some modelling with LDD again, I have a question about making a tile with custom print. Is there a guide for this? I have a PNG image file for the print on a 1x2 tile. Thanks!

Thanks! It just came back to me that 4.3.12 does not work! And I had that version :-( I did a complete clean and reinstall of 4.3.11 and all is working now. Including update version 20240504 and the file with those parts working good too. Thanks again for all the work people put into this.

Hi all, It has been a while since I worked with the custom parts and I just downloaded and extracted the complete update. All in all it seems to work just fine, however, opening the lxf files that have all parts of a certain update, most of them keep deleting a few parts that are not found and some that are not placed correct. What could be wrong about that? Further more, some new parts are not correct in the pallette and do not load. For example the part plate 3x3 (partno. 11212). The xml file is present in C:\Users\Jaco vd Molen\AppData\Roaming\LEGO Company\LEGO Digital Designer\db\Primitives I see a 11212.xml file that I assume is the definition of the 3x3 plate. However, in LDD Extended the part can be found in the plates palette, but shows as a vague 2x2 brick with an exclaimation mark and cannot be used. What could that be? Thanks for reading and answer.

Though I like LDD with all the new parts, have you ever tried LDraw? Even more parts there and some good software too. I use LDCad to model and Stud.io for rendering and sometimes for instructions.

OK, great. I will await patiently then. Thanks again.

Is there link to download all new parts in a zip or rar file? The last post I can find in this thread is from September 11, 2021. I have a feeling that since then a lot of parts were added but in this thread here, I can only find a link to loose files. Thanks to all who make this possible. Though I am a "hardcore" LDraw user, I ever so often need to turn to LDD for my digital models.

OK, didn't know. My main tools for digital LEGO are LDraw based and lately a bit more Stud.io. I love the feature in Stud.io where you can find bricks you use that are not available in the color you want, but Stud.io can search and replace those with colors that (nearly) match.

I guess that is heritage to the very beginning of LDD when you could model and order a design. I think in the basic mode back then were bricks that were actually available to order. In the extended version for instance you can make any brick any color I think. In theory you could not have ordered that design back then. Now I think there are still only bricks in the basic mode there that actually exist in the available color.

OK, I see. I have checked with 11477 which is not in the normal basic version, but is in the Extended version. I cannot post better screenshots, but here is the normal version filter on part 11477 you see it is not there. The second screenshot is the Extended version filter on 11477 so you see it is there.

Those parts are all available I think? What version are you using?

OK, Roland, forgot about that. I think you mentioned that earlier to me I do think Pinnacle means the cvs export for the partslist of a model.

The script that can generate a partslist does have its limits and times out with too many parts I think. Perhaps 1.7 solves this problem? Haven't tried and tested that version, but will do soon. There are other tools that generate parts list: LDPub3D can create a visual BOM. BrickStock imports an LDraw model and generate a list of parts including quantities required and images. BrickLink allows you to upload an LDraw model into a wanted list. Rebrickable can create a list from your model too.

Thank you all. I have everything up and running again.

OK, thanks! Mac is updated and tile 2x2 w/bow is there! ;-) I'll do my Windows machines tomorrow and install the custom parts again. Thanks for all the work! Much appreciated. I must admit I am a die-hard LDraw user and use LDCad most of the time for modeling, but doing a certain project that required me to work in LDD I dove into it again.

OK, I have 4.3.10 brick version 2248.1 on my Mac and 4.3.11 version 777 on my Windows desktop PC. Have to check my Windows 10 laptop yet. Do I need to update or downgrade? How to get that tile in?