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My impression is that Greenpeace wants to distract from their very own misconduct.

I don't think so. Neither bricklink.com nor brickset.com list any variants of this part. I guess this brick is just poorly modeled for LDD and was made in a quick-and-dirty fashion. It was not the first brick to be of low quality in LDD: Do you remember the 1x1 cheese slope 50576? Initially it used to have sharp corners in LDD until a bug report was filed and the slope was fixed in the 2013 december update: Now it has smooth round top corners. I guess the case is similar here with 92907: Currently LDD contains a low quality version of this part lacking the small details. It kinda works as intended in LDD, but its visual appearance is obviously distinct from the "real" brick.

As far as I understand him/her, dhanitheminifig12 requests some of these models to be uploaded as LXF files. Taking his/her post count into consideration, I guess he/she wasn't aware of the appropriate thread for such a request.

71076 and 71075 are switched: Your part 71075 is 71076 in LDD, while LDD's 71075 is known as 71076 in bricklink. I don't know if LDD or bricklink is to blame, but one of them got it wrong.

92907 should look like this: However, in LDD (brickversion 1392) it looks, well, ... - different: The middle reinforcement ridge is missing (red circle) and the outer ridges are somewhat lower and less smooth (yellow circles) and not as rounded as they should be (orange circle). Call me a nitpicker, but I guess this part needs some overhaul.

Do you have something similar ready for the big actuator 61927? [EDIT] Nevermind, I've found it here.

Consider it done: With no more soccer on TV, I now have to find other ways to kill my time until Bundesliga starts again . [EDIT] The A-model is done and uploaded here. [/EDIT]

I actually did: Thanks for the kind words, but I felt the first draft looks good from far, but far from good: It is a bit too grey and unicoloured and thus somewhat boring. I therefore rivesed the upper floor and decided to add a bit more contrast by using some truss, giving the facade a more vivid appearance. I used the opportunity to adjust the layout of the rooms a bit, to change the roof and to place some windows differently. I swapped the lattice to avoid the excessive use of 48729. I used way more 22667 (think of them as grapes instead of cherries). I also added more minifigs to create a busy atmosphere. The wine cellar now is separated by an iron lattice door from the public room. I also added some more details to the cellar, such as a spiderweb, some bottles and a pumpkin. The counter and the fridge were put directly in front of the big front door. Thus the kitchen has become a bit bigger. Do you notice the new coffee maker? I put the checkout near the stairs and a hanging rail right of it. The coffee maker somewhat separates the counter and the kitchen. The kitchen has become a bit bigger so that there is room for two employees preparing various delicacies. The upper floor was thoroughly overhauled, as well as the roof: Two attics were added to give the building a rural touch. The left contains bales of hay and the right some chicken. The bedroom was moved to the left, the shower replaced by a bathtub, the toilet is clogged. The bathtub contains soapy water and a rubber duck. However, I'm not quite happy with its shape: If you have any idea how to make a more cute rubber duck, I would greatly appreciate any hints. The living room is now in front of the chimney, including the sofa and the flat TV, and featuring a new cow skull. Please feel free to download the LXF file here.

It's been a while since I last posted here. Recently I wondered what to build on the edge of a curved road. The space there is quite limited, so it is rather hard to construct an appealing building. I had a thought about a bavarian beer garden, but finally ended up with an alsatian wine inn. (Click on each thumbnail for a larger image.) The outer walls of the two-storeyed stone building are covered with vine tendrils. The outdoor range is separated from the street by an ironwork lattice covered with climbing plants. The kitchen is equipped with a wood-fired oven on the very right: Several spices dangle down from the top, and you can see a tarte flambée sizzling. The window allows the staff to serve cars directly. Left of it are some vessels with dips and sauces, such as mustard or mayonnaise, hanging from a pole. In front of it is a counter, containg a fridge with cold beverages. Left of it you may notice a fire extinguisher. And even more left you see the screen from the checkout. Upstairs is a double room with a fireplace and two bedside cabinets, each with a lamp. In front of a large flat TV is a cosy purple sofa. Both the pub room inside as well as the outdoor range invite you to enjoy a splendid wine and an opulent meal before relaxing upstairs. The last picture shows the pub room in detail with its heavy wooden seating on the left and some wine casks on the right. I have not thoroughly checked if all the parts used exist as real bricks in the respective colours, but apart from the copper ones most of them should at least exist in similar colours. If you want to examine this building in detail, you may download the LXF file here. But please be aware that I do consider this set as WIP, so maybe I'll change some details in the future and update that file without further notice.

White is total reflection, as it reflects back the full spectrum of the light. A large surface of white is a strain to look at, as white is no real colour but rather a shade of any colour. White is associated with purity. Uncompromising, clean, hygienic and sterile are some attributes commonly associated with white. White must be contrasted by some other colour to be experienced as pleasant; all-white rooms are considered generous and spacious, but in a cold and empty way. People wearing white clothes or uniforms are unconsciously perceived as noble, trustworthy and professional, e.g. nurses and doctors. People stating white as their favourite colour often tend to be neat, tidy, reserved, aloof, afraid of changes, maybe even latent xenophobic, in any case rather elitist. Sometimes they suffer from compulsive behaviour such as obsessive washing and cleaning or avoiding contaminants. Obsessions with exactness and symmetry are also quite frequent. I'm far from accusing you to suffer from OCD, but maybe some more colourful flowers were a good idea: Almost every flower has an elevated centre. By having a look at those tulips it's hard to believe that studs down could be right, isn't it?

The first sets to ever contain flowers seem to be 276, 277 and 296 of 1977 and 205, 230, 231, 232, 376, 1589 and 1620 of 1978: All the images show the flowers stud up. So I guess originally that's the right way to use those flowers. But I guess this question is similiar to the question how to properly orientate toilet paper: Over or under? Bearing that in mind, I wonder if there is a connection between prefering the flower stud up and toilet paper over: Might be an interesting topic for a thesis...

Nice.

If I count correctly the unoffical top 5 of the votes are: 30: 92 04: 76 38: 64 33: 53 39: 43 02: 43 However, I guess that several votes are illegal, since the user either joined on March 1st or later (figgycity50 2014-03-09, Brickelangelo 2014-03-31, SithMageHenry 2014-04-01, neghibo 2014-04-18, legozebra 2014-03-27, divingfaces 2014-03-14, o0ger 2014-03-05 and FETT 2014-03-12) or did not use exactly 6 points but more (Brickelangelo 8) or less (neghibo 5, HomerJSimpson 5, Gioppa 5 and leksivalen 5). The figures above still include those illegal votes, but I doubt it would make much of a difference subtracting them.

Grüß Gott and welcome to Eurobricks. That's not the worst characteristic to work with LDD. Depending on your geekiness you might also be interested in LDraw, although it has a steeper learning curve. Have you already tried the Extended Mode as described here? Although admittedly quite a bunch of parts are missing (especially older ones and very new ones), it contains way more parts than the default standard mode. Moreover, you can also use colours that don't exist as real bricks: A washing machine in minifig scale for example could consist of 1× 41533 (colour 1, white), 1×4274 (colour 1, white) and 1×14769 (colour 42, transparent light blue). If you want to share your creations with the whole world, it's a good idea to get an account over at http://www.brickshelf.com/, since the attachments on this forum are very limited. Flickr and Dropbox, SkyDrive OneDrive and of course mocpages.com work here as well.

I actually have no idea when LDD will get updated. I indeed wanted Greol to get up very early on April 1st in excitement of a new LDD update, just to realize he/she has been fooled. But then I had a look at his/her post count and realized that he/she is quite a newbie, so I regret what I've done and gave a subtile hint: He/she shall not get the impression that EB is unfriendly to new members and enjoying making fun of them.

Sure, but I still haven't figured out how the smoke will get from the oven to the chimney, since they are not connected at all: Behind the oven is a staircase, but it ends on the gallery level, without any connection to the roof and the chimney. And the walls are mostly glassy, so there's no space for a stove pipe as well. Of course not. It's your dream house. If that includes a steamy, smoky living room, I'm fine with it. Everyone, however, living in a house where the oven is not connected to the chimney will most likely die of carbon monoxide poisoning. But since nightmares are dreams, too, I guess it's OK.

Well, have a look at the date.

On Tuesday, in the very early morning!

Several parts are a bit buggy in the very current version, so such errors are quite reproducible, even without upgrading LDD. Especially the feather 30126 is indeed problematic: When put thoroughly into a hole and touching the surface of a stud (even a hollow one), there's a good chance that it'll get removed. Example.

Right click, save as... No, seriously: Are there any at all? I have never seen any downloadable LXF files on LEGO.com. Only the building instructions to craft your own LXF files and of course the LDD itself. Can you provide any links to downloadable LXF files on LEGO.com? EDIT: http://ldd.lego.com/en-us/gallery needs a working flash player plugin to download the LXF files posted there. But those files have GUIDs as file names, so it might be a good idea to rename them after download. ANOTHER EDIT: If you miss the blue "Download" bar, but click on the image instead, you'll get a description of the model. In that view, however, there is no download link. Thus you have to click on the blue "back" bar in the top left corner of the image to get back to the overview. If you miss that tiny little bar, but rather click on the image instead, you'll get a pop-up with a bigger image, but still no download link. Regarding usability this gallery is surely not best practice: Flash-based, with tiny click areas not suitable for tablets anyway. Hello LEGO, ever heard of an iPad?

I have to admit that I'm a bit confused by that building: I'm not an architect, but where does the chimney get its smoke from? I mean, there's a chimney on the roof, but no connecion to the roof from the fireplace below the TV. Is this sort of a smokehouse and the smoke is supposed to hover through the entire room before finally hitting the chimney? Couldn't you add something like a stove pipe to make it look a bit more feasible? Chimneys out of nowhere are a bit fishy to me, aren't they?

You'll find that part in LDD Extended mode only. RTFM for more infos how to get the LDD Extended mode.

On startup LDD checks if there are any collision error. Unfortunately the check routine is not very nifty when it checks connections: If you craft connections that are not 100% neat, there is a good chance that brick will get removed on loading that file. If you don't know, which bricks were actually removed, have a look at the file %appdata%\LEGO Company\UnplaceableBricksDump.lxfml: Open that file with a text editor, even Notepad is enough: Bricks that are OK contain the string materials="24", unplaceable bricks materials="21" instead. Have a look at the designID in the same line to get an idea of the brick number and enter that number into the parts search box on the top left side of LDD. Place that part slightly different, e.g. by putting it farther into the hole or by using a slightly different angle. Pins put in hollow studs are less likely to be removed if they get reinforced with one or two 85861. There is little you can do about it: Save and reload the file quite often when dealing with problematic parts. It's a matter of trial and error. Eventually you'll get a feeling what might work and and what not.

According to the lego website this is the MINI UPPER PART NO 2766: In spite the fact that the image looks rather greyish, it actually is black. It is listed as available for replacement, so it can't be too old. Moreover, since none of the usual part catalogs (brickset, bricklink, brickowl, peeron, rebrickable etc.) lists this part (yet), it is probably quite new, maybe from a set not yet released. But I don't know that for sure. If I have to guess, I'd bet that it might be from one of the 2014er summer Star Wars sets. Sorry, that is all I know. Which set(s) this part is actually included in, remains a mystery to me, too.

Located in Copenhagen, Denmark, the Gemini Residence used to be two seed silos. Here's my interpretation as a LDD MICRO MOC. Although this MOC is fairly simple, you may click on the image to download the LXF file.