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Re: Lego Cad?
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Date: 
Mon, 16 Apr 2001 07:38:40 GMT
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Tom,

LEGO CAD is a program designed to go with LEGO's Dacta educational line. It
is many years old at this point. It now ships on CD-ROM, but the program is
unchanged. It fits onto floppies because, like LDraw, it's files are simply
lines of text describing a model.

Though no longer in production, it is still shipped. A new program, LEGO
Designer, is on it's way. Designer is basically an update to LEGO CAD,
incorporating several of the Dacta modules into a single program. You'll
find more information at the Pitsco/Dacta website @
http://www.pitsco-legodacta.com/

I had a copy of Designer on order as of last week, but I cancelled it.
According to the LEGO web site, designer will be available in August (Pitsco
had no such disclaimer). Pitsco assures me it will be sooner, but blame a
delay in development for not getting me product as promised.

HTH,
Matt

In lugnet.cad, Tom Heverly writes:
Does anyone have any experience with Lego Cad?

http://www.lego.com/dacta/legocad/about.htm

It is made by (or in conjunction with) Autodesk, so I'm hoping it is
similar to AutoCAD, but I'm guessing it's not quite that good if it
will fit on a few floppies.

I think Virtual legos would be alot easier in an AutoCAD enviroment
becuase of the "snap" feature.



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Does anyone have any experience with Lego Cad? (URL) is made by (or in conjunction with) Autodesk, so I'm hoping it is similar to AutoCAD, but I'm guessing it's not quite that good if it will fit on a few floppies. I think Virtual legos would be (...) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.cad)

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