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I'm definitely not hiding the model - anyway, I'd expect the grid still to be there if that were the case. I've attached the file here for you to look at. I might add that I can take bricks out of the palette and put them in the model to create changes, which I can save if I want to, but those bricks are also invisible. GDK6.lxf

I'm having this issue right now - when I opened the most recent iteration of a MOC I'm in the middle of designing, which I had saved not 15 minutes ago, I got a blank screen. The bricks are obviously there because LDD counts the pieces and the building guide mode indeed instructs me to build the MOC that I know is there, but there's nothing to see. I've tried zooming in, zooming out, rotating the camera, pressing the little circular arrow to centre the model in front of the camera, but nothing happens. Other .lxf files I have do show things when I open them, including earlier versions of the same model (thank goodness!), so it's not critical, but it's jolly annoying because I spent 2 hours updating my model and messing with angles, etc. Here is a screenshot of what I see when I open the MOC I've discussed. I hope somebody can help. Thank you.

At first glance, it looks like a pretty nice house. When I read it was meant to look like an owl, the resemblance is unmistakeable. It's got a very clean design inside and out, and I love the little old-time homemaker pieces you put in the kitchen; the remind me of the pieces my dad and aunt had as kids.

ha ha Nice job on the modular. The exterior looks just like what I imagine when I think of recently-developed (sub)urban commercial districts. The interiors, too, are pretty nice but what really makes it are the details on the ceiling - your POV shot of the coffee shop is really immersive (thought it seems a little more like a bar than a coffee shop). The idea to include a yoga studio perfectly captures the sense of a recently-developed commercial area. Great job, and keep on building!

The Guggenheim in NYC isn't that obscure; they already made a set of it back in 2009.

It's a little blocky on the outside but I love the greenhouse, the ladder and the little hose snaking up 1 of the legs of the research station. The roof is nice, too. The airlock is nicely designed and your interior, which you've made very easily accessible, has nice details and greebles. Good job!

Referring to the original post, I agree with the others that the windows seemed a bit blocky because of how you built them with rods, clips and other parts. Both versions of the Aventador recall the prototype immediately, and the E30 is really evocative, too. I'm not familiar enough with cars to provide detailed feedback but your updated scale seems to have a great feel to it, and you seem to be using it to make some nifty little cars. Keep at it - I look forward to seeing what else you make in this system.

Hiya, Since last weekend, LDD crashes when I try to "save as". It doesn't happen when I try to "save". I'm not sure whether this is a mac problem or an LDD problem, considering what I've found online regarding this error. I hope somebody can help. Relevant information: I use an early 2011 macbook pro running OS X Yosemite with 4 GB RAM. I use bootcamp to dual boot Windows 7, which I use for a couple of things but at the moment mostly little third-party widgets for LDD that are Windows-only. I use LDD version 4.3.8. I haven't had any issues with it until this week. Last weekend I attempted to open, when booting from my Windows partition, a .lxf file that was saved on my mac partition. Apple says it is possible and not a bad thing to open files on different partitions. The error I get is: Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000000 When I "save as" the file is created but I cannot read it with LDD because the file is corrupted. Googling this error told me that this is an issue with the mac operating system, and that you can fix it by repairing the disc. So this morning I verified that my mac partition was corrupted, booted from the OS installation disc to repair the hard drive, etc. LDD is the only program I have that crashes when I attempt to "save as". This isn't a critical problem because, if necessary, I can copy an existing file, rename it, delete everything in it, etc.

They're adorable and photographed well. I love the snout on the pig, but I think my favourite animal is the bison.

Congratulations on winning your eBay auction, and thanks for sharing the details of the road trip. The photo of 3 of your friends in the mouth of the tunnel is spectacular. I never knew this piece of road existed, but it must be why the junction between the 70 and 76 at Breezewood is such a mess.

Let's have some wild mad guessing for what the city models will be. Sydney: Opera House, Harbour Bridge, ?, ? Chicago: Sears Tower, John Hancock Center, Water Tower, ? London: Shard, Big Ben (again ), St. Paul's, ? I suppose it'd be too much to ask for 333 North Michigan, the Rookery or the Tate Modern.

I've been rendering at low resolution, such as 512x384, which takes me ~40 seconds on my computer, but I'll try this solution too. Thanks for the suggestion!

In the 1960s, Northwestern University embarked on a construction frenzy. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill engineered the reclamation of 75-ish acres from Lake Michigan to roughly double the size of the university's campus in Evanston, Illinois. At the same time, Walter Netsch, an architect at SOM, was appointed to design several buildings, including University Library, for the new land. This is what he came up with. In plan, the design consists of a plaza oriented on an east-west axis, flanked by towers to the north, south, and east. Corridors on the west end of the library connect to the university's existing library, built in 1932-33. Netsch's concept, designed for the oncoming Digital Age, was that each of the three towers, organized around a central block, should house a different collection. Shelves in the stacks are arranged as spokes on a wheel so that a student should consult the computerized catalog in the center of the wheel to locate and obtain the desired material in minimum time with minimal hassle. It was, and perhaps still is, university policy that all buildings must be faced with limestone. Limestone is much too tasteful for Brutalist architecture, though, so University Library, and most of Netsch's other works on Northwestern's campus, are textured to make the limestone look like concrete. In the original plan, the central block from which the towers diverge was meant to be the entrance. Instead, Netsch's design was changed so the weird octagon thing became the entrance, because it is closer to the university's existing library. The central core still contains the elevators and bathrooms, but the intended entrance hall is now a cafe. Netsch raised the library's stacks on columns so that a person standing on the plaza, looking to the east, would have an uninterrupted view of Lake Michigan and the horizon. I'm sure it would have been a nice view, but Netsch's design was subverted in 1971 by the construction of another building immediately to the east of the library. I really don't like this building, but it was fun to design an architecture-type model based on it. All these images were rendered using Bluerender. Thanks for looking!

Great MOC, WickNole! You've put lots of nice colors and textures into the house. I particularly like the tiny balconies on the upper two floors and the use of an open book to cap everything off. Like HawkLord said, the foliage feels organic throughout. The reeds surrounding the little pier make for a nice scene. Congratulations on a well-done build, and good luck in the contest.

The construction of the center console is very solid, and you've really captured the shape and details of the room, but the real success is the incredibly atmospheric photo. Great job and good luck in the contest!

Vincent - the first photo of your MOC is breathtaking. It looks like a normal old house but there's so much thought put into it. And then there are the interior photos! There are so many details, and I love that there's a two-storey space that is hidden from the outside. It's got such a lot of colors and textures, you've obviously put lots of work and thought into it, and it's come out beautifully.

That's totally up to you - if you want to focus on the architecture of the temple, build the entire thing. If you want a playset, it's not a bad idea (and might even be a good idea) just to build half the temple and leave the rear open, like you did with this. Good luck, and have fun with it!

As far as I can tell it only violates the photo framing project guideline. TLG could take it down if they wanted, but that'd be bad PR to go out of their way to dash a Russian teenager's hopes if the project isn't going anywhere anyway.

Hi, MaxTube55, and welcome to Eurobricks! I can tell you've put a lot of work into this, and I'm well familiar with the pain of working with LDD, and thanks for sharing your project with us. I have some commentary on both the concept and the design of your MOC. First as regards the concept: A $500 LEGO set isn't just large, it's detailed, and every area has to mean something. If you look at the Millennium Falcon, it's got greebles all over. If you look at the Death Star, every area on the model represents a piece of the "real" thing - never mind the hallways in the set aren't miles long. That's why you don't need a "full size" hangar, control room or ceremony hall, especially since you're keeping the X-wing, Y-wing and Falcon outside the hangar. There's no need for everything to be so expansive, as much of it ends up as empty space. Next: design. You've got some good stuff going on, like paying attention to detail in the door, incorporating the tall, thin vertical windows in the ceremony hall. Also, your use of the 6x6 radar dish upside down in the Death Star tracking table along with those curved bricks is a cool idea. The lookout tower is good too (but maybe the rocky portion extends too high). But the fact your model is so large means it suffers from "big [tan] wall syndrome", which you've addressed above the hangar door but not, I believe, anywhere else. Your MOC would be miles better if you included green for the moss that covers the prototype from the movie - it would be more accurate, and you'd get some additional texture on the base's surfaces. I've mentioned the size of the MOC before, but I haven't mentioned the scale. Scale is 100% important. Not just "is this thing large enough to contain a fleet of X-wings" scale, but things like the height of the hangar door compared to the temple. If we look at the picture on this link, notice that there's a portion of steps, above which there is a landing of sorts and then a step back (which you should include!) but, more importantly, the sheer wall above the hangar bay door is at least 2/3 the height of that initial portion of steps. The hangar door is only 1/3, but in your MOC you've given it 5/8 or so. Also your floors need to be thicker, or have bricks underneath them as beams. Spanning 64(?) studs with only 2 layers of plates is possible in LDD but a recipe for disaster in real life. You have some good ideas here. But it'd be better if you built it a bit smaller and more to scale. Build the outside, and then build the inside to a totally different scale. Compress dimensions in the interior. TLG does it all the time! But make sure the exterior is proportioned correctly with respect to itself, has more texture, more color, and more details. I know this probably comes across as harsh, and I'm sorry about that. But don't be afraid to have another crack at it. Don't be afraid to make it smaller. I know if you give it another go, you'll make it better - that's why iterative design is a thing. Thanks again for sharing your Yavin IV MOC, and welcome to Eurobricks!

The project with the transliterated Russian words is clearly the result of some kid typing in Russian and sending it through Google Translate, and I'm certain that's also why the wording is stunted. "podveski" means "suspension", referring to the imaginary titanium springs mentioned elsewhere in the description. "kosmicheskiy" is an adjective meaning "space", as in "space buggy" but I wonder why it's translated properly elsewhere and not, where it is not. Probably something to do with the full stop with no space. Communicating in a foreign language is tough, which is why I'm grateful Eurobricks is in English.

I'm hardly a fan of Minecraft so I don't know what this is supposed to be apart from the screenshot you gave, bu tit looks really clean and a faithful recreation of the prototype. Also, you've done a great job making the temple playable, and I'm sure that means a lot to your kid. Good job.

And panders to AFOLs as a recreation of a long-existing well-loved MOC by a well-known builder. Let's just say every Ideas set, except for Birds and the Maze, panders to some group of people that TLG can leverage for easy cash.

TLG will have to decide if they think enough people would buy it to produce the set, and even if they do produce the Women of NASA set, it doesn't mean they can't also produce a second project from the review cycle. Just because they produce a set doesn't mean you have to buy it. I'm sick of the endless line of X-wings that the Star Wars theme produces. They did it many times before and we don't need ot waste more slots with this kind of stuff. (only slightly in jest) At heart, LEGO is a building system. The person who made the Women of NASA project used the system to build something they liked, and thought perhaps 10,000 other people might like. You can take your stack of bricks and build something else for yourself, too. It's been a while since I bought a set, but I enjoy the hobby just as much as ever. I've never bought SW battle packs or been into the CMF series so I wouldn't buy a Women of NASA set that is predominantly minifigures, but it's just my two cents.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the campus for the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, where he was also the dean of the school of architecture for a number of years. The best-known building on IIT's campus, and one of Mies's most famous buildings, is Crown Hall. The building expresses its structure so honestly that it is a beautiful example of Mies's aphorism "less is more", and doesn't employ curtain walls simply for their own sake like certain other buildings do. Here is my take on Crown Hall: I rendered these pictures using Bluerender, which is a really easy tool to make nice pictures of digital models. Thanks for looking!