It has played a prominent role in various offerings, from LEGO Factory, LEGO Design ByME, LEGO video games and movies.
LDD pioneered real-time rendering of LEGO bricks, virtual brick connectivity, and the compact LEGO Exchange file format (LXF) which made LEGO models built in LDD light and portable. LEGO Digital Designer was released in 2004 as the LEGO Group’s 3D building tool.
While downloaded versions of the LDD application will continue to work, people are encouraged to download BrickLink Studio, import their LDD files, and use Studio for 3D LEGO building files, and use Studio for 3D LEGO building. The LEGO Digital Designer (LDD) website will close on January 31st, after which time LDD will no longer be available for download.
Studio will replace LEGO Digital Designer as the official virtual LEGO building software going forward. The LEGO Digital Designer website will shut down at the end of January.īrickLink Studio welcomes LEGO Digital Designer users.īillund, Denmark – January 12th, 2022: Today, the LEGO Group announces that BrickLink LEGO® BrickLink Studio to replace LEGO Digital Designer as the LEGO Users who have installed the program already will be able to continue to use it, and LDD will continue to be available unofficially from third-party download sites.
However, the company now says it plans to remove the download page altogether. Although LEGO announced way back in 2016 that LDD would no longer be supported, over the past few years it has continued to receive infrequent updates and even a selection of newer elements. Studio supports most files created in LDD, LDRAW, and some other formats, and supports features such as automatically populating a BrickLink wanted list. While LEGO says it will continue to use a version of LDD internally, it is putting forward BrickLink’s Studio software as the officially supported digital building program, which LEGO acquired in 2019 when it purchased BrickLink. Still, it's a great facsimile for replicating the fun of Lego bricks digitally, and since its free, it's the cheapest Lego experience you'll ever have.Today LEGO has announced that it is finally and completely sunsetting LEGO Digital Designer (LDD), the company’s digital building program that was first introduced in 2004 as a consumer version of LEGO’s internal design software. The app chows on RAM, so those with older machines should be prepared for serious slow-downs if they can get the program to run at all. The user interface for Version 2 is a big improvement, although some controls could be more intuitive. In addition to all this, you can send your model to to share with other Lego builders.
There's an option to watch an animated guide on how to recreate whatever complex design you just built. You can place your model against a cheesy 3D background, save it, take a screenshot, explode it only to have it reassembled on the next mouse click. Seventeen prebuilt models are included to help beginners. The Brick Palette puts all your bricks in one basket, so to speak, so that managing them is no more difficult than keeping track of more than two dozen subpalettes that catalogue the variations. Parts include basic bricks, model jet engines, and infrared sensors. The graphics-intensive program seamlessly zooms in and out, rotates your point-of-view 360 degrees, connects bricks to each other, rotates them, and moves any hinges they might have so you can explore how your pieces fit together. Loaded with features, the drawbacks are minor and this program is a lot of fun to use.
Lego Digital Designer gives users the chance to play with Legos without paying for Legos.