theLemur

oo. Thanks! I'll do some messing around. That lxf looks very useful.

alright, this looks like the same issue. I've played with LDD before, made a fairly large zigurrat, and was quite pleased with that. Then I started working on some concepts to see if I could do certain things. Using nonstandard connections was always an issue for me. But then I got a new laptop, and for giggles I put on LDD 4.3. And I was thrilled. I was able to do everything I wanted! So I took on a big project. I downloaded the instructions for the Millennium Falcon (the big one, set #10179). And for a while, everything was great. This step was a little sketchy, but I got through. Then I started on this step: This took a lot of time to get right. Since it's clearly a 90 degree angle and a 45 degree bar, I even used the hinge tool to set it. The hinge align tool didn't do anything at all. But by alternating what sequence I put the pieces in, I eventually got it. This step, was a major pain: Every red or yellow circle is a pin/technic connection, except that far-right one which is 2 sets of locking hinge bricks (part 30365 and its companion). It literally took hours to get everything aligned. Naturally, there's similar construction that hooks on the other side. I spent hours on it, too, and still never got it quite right. When I built the undercarriage that goes underneath that last piece shown, I couldn't get it to fit. I gave up on the model. So in the last 2 years, since this thread was started, have people developed techniques to put these technic connections together more readily? I've learned some tricks on how to get it to rotate around the pin I want, since when there's more than 1 pin through a beam, the designer just kinda guesses, almost never right. A lot of that is actually removing pins, using the hinge, and then replacing the pins, but it still doesn't always work right. Any advice?