Superkalle

Great spotting. There's been a couple of errors allready found on the forum here but I think you may have found a couple of new ones. In any case, I completely agree - what a mess.

Great with more suggestions for LDD 4. Here some quick comments and questions. Will be solved to a large extent with the LDD mod due out in a couple of weeks. We're all looking forward to that Over 1400 bricks at our disposal in all manufactured colors. Yihaaa. Agree completely. In the meantime, I use any of the following two tools to count bricks: Wanted Brick BrickHelper What do you mean? Please explain. Definetly needed. However, it would have to be a feature where you can only change color of one brick type type at a time (like first all 1x1 bricks, then all 1x2 bricks etc). If you select many bricks type in a color at the same time (for example to change from red to lime), than there be a problem if all bricks does not exist in the target color (lime in this case). (Hm, I hope that was understandable??) Well, hrhm, 35.000 pieces is a lot of bricks - a bit out of the scope of LDD Anyway, a tip for using rotation tool to snap to the fixed intervalls is to double click the green 45 degree markers. Absoultety 100% agree. It would be cool to be able to search/filter for bricks attributes to, like find all bricks with technic hole, or all bricks sized 1x4, or all bricks with.... Agree partly. If everyone can create a custom structure, it would 1) create problems when Lego updates with a new brick palette, 2) make it difficult for users to help each other. Example: AFOL 1 - "use the brick in category X". AFOL2 - "what to you mean, I don't have any such brick in my category X". Hm - can this partly have to do with the huge models you're building Not to be joking though, I have bumped into this once in a while too. Mostly when using the 1x1 technic brick with hole and pin. The pin will then be 1/10 of a millimeter to high (because of a design flaw with that physical brick, not in LDD), and that can create consequent problems down the line. However I feel that with LDD 3.x, those problems have become very rare.

Thanks for complementing my pic Toa_of_Justice. Teamwork EDIT: And yeah, the graphics/decorations look really bad. Another one they messed up with is the 1x1 brick with the eye. It should look like this: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=3005pb11 (compare to the one in LDD which is stretched)

OK, the new palette is out now. Here is a screenshot of some new pieces I found after a quick browsing (there are probably more):

Great idea - looks cool in all it's simplicity. Keep up the good work.

Done too. Looking forward to see the others contributions!

Spot on Shroud! The target group for LDD is not AFOLs, but kids, and kids wan't to have cool elements like Atlantis stuff, swords etc. And at the same time there needs to be standard bricks to build houses, so it's a balance. However, I'm hoping that with the new LDD mod due out soon making all bricks and colors available, LDD will become a prefered tool also for AFOLs. Personally I think it's superior when making scetches and design studies for new MOC's (that I then build with physical Lego).

They will be removed. A solution could be to wait for the new LDD mod that will enable you to have access to both the new and old bricks in one go. Check this thread now and then, and you can download the mod when it's ready: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=39841

Relax boys and girls. I heard from a reliable source (ok....it's Bojan) that an updated mod is on the way. Due out soon. Hold out a week or two.

Hi That it is in the "Wanted list" doesn't mean it has ever been produced, only that someone is wanting it (has added it to their Wanted List). Also the difference between "Lots for sale" and "Know colors" is that "Known colors" are colors that have existsed in a set. Sometimes however, special colors are made by Lego and never end up in a set. An example are bricks produced for Legoland that find their way on to the market - for example being sold at as a bargain item in a Lego-store PAB. Hoped that helped EDIT: Rick beat me to it

Greatly spotted t20a1h5u23! I took the liberty of adding this news as a separate post under Lego General

It's that time of year. Early April and Lego releases its annual update of the DesignByMe/Pick-A-Brick palette: http://designbyme.lego.com/en-us/news/default.aspx (spotted by EB user t20a1h5u23) This year, the new palette will go into effect on April 6th. For all LDD users, this means the removal of a lot of bricks. Instead, appernatly some new bricks for Atlantis will be added along with some "surprises". Here is a screenshot of all the parts that will be removed on april 6th:

I had an opportunity some time ago to talk to a designer at TLG, and he told me that they use other colors to make it easier to follow the instructions and build the model.

Hm, I wonder where this thread is going to end (besides, no one takes anything Ras says seriously anyway ha, ha....)

Sad news But I guess these things happen. I have now cancelled the ferry ticket and my hotel room in Billund - there was a penalty fee of 100 euro, but at least I got some of the money back. Look forward to seeing you at a later date then.

Great news! In my opinion the best Lego magazine out there.

Welcome to Eurobricks. For the future, it would be great if you could post design questions in a new thread. This thread is for the topic of the extended LDD palette. EDIT: Bojan seems to have found a solution to your problem in the next post....

Yes, but at the same time you don't want to overload so you loose traction power.

It's in the Technics accessories category (the one with the Technics pegs in the beginning). EDIT: Scorpion beat me to it I know Bojan is working on a much better and easier to navigate version, but we have to wait a few weeks since he is busy with other stuff now...

Yes, but you saw that that article was from 2005?

It's not a matter of what we individually think about what is accepted or not, but what is written in the User Agreement, section I. I think Bojan is on the right track here - it's better to have a dialogue with TLG about this. Otherwise there can be at least two consequences: 1) TLG take legal action (which I guess that Bojan as a respected member of the Lego community is not interested in) and/or 2) TLG remove all the extra bricks in the next release of LDD, and/or possibly protect the software more, and then we're back to square one.

I too would... ...like the.... ...badge and kit! (ah..crap...I wanted to write three consecutive posts but the forum won't allow that. Was just feeling a bit posting-trigger-happy - just for you Ras )

LEGO DIGITAL DESIGNER into topic About this thread This is the LDD Info topic. Here you'll find links to topics and articles related to anything LDD. If there is anything missing, please send me a PM or post in this thread. Thanks! What is LDD LDD is short for Lego Digital Designer, a freeware tool from TLG to design 3D Lego models. Compared to other Lego CAD-tools, LDD's strongpoints are that it's extremely easy to get started with. The main critisism used to be the lack of bricks, but with the Extended Mode (see below) this has now been fixed. Posting LDD topics at Eurobricks Some basic rules for posting LDD topics at EuroBricks: 1) All questions, thoughts, how-to, news, bugs, post processing, LDD models of official Lego sets, or anything else related to LDD as a tool - post in this forum (the LDD forum). This also includes MOCs with LXF-file attached. 2) Any MOCs done in LDD that belong to a specific theme (e.g. Pirates, Star Wars etc) should be posted in that forum Software Downloads LDD itself http://ldd.lego.com/ LDD Manager - A tool to import, view, analyze LDD models. Also to upload bricks to BrickLink. Windows only version. Supports all bricks in LU mode. LDD to LDraw updated conversion XML-file (for use within LDD) - http://gallaghersart.com/index.php?/site/n..._the_ldraw.xml/ Griddy - a tool to scale models - http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=47394&st=0&p=831431 Sariel - scaling tool online http://scaler.sariel.pl/ Important topics LDD Reference information (colors, XML-schema, templates etc)- http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=48239 A non-LDD specific doc about Lego Legal Building principles that everyone should read - http://bramlambrecht.com/tmp/jamieberard-b...stress-bf06.pdf An interview with the LDD Development Manager (October 2010) that explains a lot about LDD features and plans: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=48141 Excellent tutorial how to install LDraw + MLCad: http://technicbricks.blogspot.com/2010/11/ldraw-tutorial-part-4.html Downloadable official LEGO sets made as LDD-files Check out this index here at EB maintained by Calabar. EB LDD Forum statisticshttp://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=42506

As a die-hard Tiny Turbos collector I gotta have 'em all.

2 sport planes for me, please! Thanks!