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(...) Hi Ville, Unfortunately, there's no simple way to get the typical LEGO instructions experience with Factory. Often LDD's automatic instruction steps aren't well organized and sometimes impossible to follow. It's better if the model author (...) (18 years ago, 25-Nov-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: Factory creation
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(...) SNIP There were a LOT of bugs in the previous incarnations' instruction generation. I think I finally got it so the instructions are followable by setting to '3 bricks per step' & 'save cameras' in the preferences menu. (...) (URL) (...) (18 years ago, 31-Oct-06, to lugnet.cad.ldd, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Factory creation
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(...) Nwe Lego Shop link: (URL) Jeff (18 years ago, 28-Oct-06, to lugnet.cad.ldd, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Factory creation
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(...) Pics: (URL) KITT features the red sensor at the front, the intake 'bump' on the top right-of-center on the hood & a white license plate in the back. (4) 2x3 plates come off the roof to make a 'T'top mode. The 'U'shape steering wheel is mounted (...) (18 years ago, 28-Oct-06, to lugnet.cad.ldd, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Factory creation
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I made this KITT for my brother paul: (URL) Jeff (18 years ago, 28-Oct-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.cad.ldd, lugnet.town)
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I just made a LDD moc, & bought it thru factory @ lego.com. Anyone have any idea how long it takes to get it from the time of uploading/ordering? Jeff (18 years ago, 27-Oct-06, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: Technic Plate Placement
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(...) I, too, find that I just can't make pieces connect in LDD like they're supposed to. When this happens, I'll build up part of the model in LDD and then save as a .LDR file. Then using MLCAD (in LDraw), I fix the stuff that didn't work in LDD (...) (18 years ago, 25-Oct-06, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | MOC: "Retro Factory" Motorail Terminal
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Hi all, I've been working to recreate some of the great classic town/train sets within the bounds imposed by the piece assortment on LDD. The Motorail Terminal is, I think, one of the more impressive results of this project. And I've produced a (...) (18 years ago, 25-Oct-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| | A few train MOCs
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Yay! I still remember how to build. I just used LDD to design some small train sets... Not sure if this link will work. You may need to copy and paste the string. If not, search for user Hendotron at the Lego Factory... (URL) details: The crossing (...) (18 years ago, 24-Oct-06, to lugnet.cad.ldd, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains) !
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| | Re: Technic Plate Placement
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(...) Well, I apologize for answering my own post, but here's what I found and thought was worth sharing in case anyone else has this problem: First, lego.com actually admits there are such faults with the program sometimes not being able to connect (...) (18 years ago, 24-Oct-06, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Technic Plate Placement
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I'm brand spankin' new to LDD, fairly inexperience with any Lego CAD, and somewhat stuck in a dark age...so forgive me if this question has been asked before... How does one place a technic plate such that it places with a vertical technic peg (...) (18 years ago, 19-Oct-06, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: LDD/Factory Question
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(...) It might be that they are out of stock for a particular piece in the model. I've heard stuff like that happening before. -Lenny (18 years ago, 20-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | LDD/Factory Question
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I designed a model in LDD 1.6 and hit the "Check Price" button. When I got to the Factory page, it showed my model, but without a price and listed it as "Not Available." Why is it doing this? -- Thomas Main thomasmain@charter.net (18 years ago, 19-Sep-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: LDD to LDRAW Conversion Fixes (another fix)
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In lugnet.cad.ldd, Jason J. Railton wrote: <snipped content> (...) <snipped content> (...) I'd suggest experimenting and seeing if this is a color-specific issue. 49668 is one of the numbers that is remapped internally in the program, so that (as (...) (18 years ago, 6-Aug-06, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: LDD to LDRAW Conversion Fixes (another fix)
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Here again is an optional fix. This will convert new brown in LDD models to old brown in LDRAW, which is more convenient to edit in MLCAD: First, comment out the old brown definition: <!-- OLD BROWN, removed by Jason Railton 30.Jun.06 --> <!-- (...) (18 years ago, 30-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: LDD to LDRAW Conversion Fixes
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One more tip - if you want to check all your XML is marked up correctly and you haven't made any mistakes, just double-click the file. It'll open in Internet Explorer (unless your name's Christopher and you have a MAC... ;-). You should see a neatly (...) (18 years ago, 30-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: LDD to LDRAW Conversion Fixes
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(...) Jason, Thanks for figuring out the 1x1x2/3 slope thing. It was driving me nuts. Also, I think you are right. Even though it would be very convenient to re-publish the ldraw.xml file, it is probably safest not to. Thanks for putting this all (...) (18 years ago, 29-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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Apologies to anyone who didn't follow this post. It always bugs me when people post technical stuff with no explanation, and just expect everyone to 'get it'. In this case, a lot of people aren't going to be familiar with XML files, so here's a (...) (18 years ago, 29-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: LDD to LDRAW Conversion Fixes
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(...) I wasn't sure of the copyright position; the original file is LEGO's property, even if it is freely distributed. That's why I only posted the ammendments. It'd be best if you copy and paste the lines of XML from my message into a copy of your (...) (18 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: Favorites file for MLCad with all parts in LDD 1.6
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(...) After a bit of thinking before posting, I took a look in the C:\Program Files\LEGO Software\LEGO Digital Designer\database\geometry folder and saw .tab files with names that looked like partnumbers. There are 256 tab files in this folder. I (...) (18 years ago, 28-Jun-06, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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