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In lugnet.cad, Michel Harnois writes:
> I would like to have comments from anyone who has used the August 2001
> release of Lego Designer Software (Dacta product #2000070).
Lego Designer 1.0 works amazingly well for a first version. It's Help can
get you started. It has a few problems and could use some more tips. Let
me know if you want my long list of problems and suggestions sent to Pitsco
several months ago.
Lego Designer serves a different user than MLCAD and the other free programs
that model and render so fantastically. A child of age 7 could learn Lego
Designer quickly. Designer's Ideas area and Journal area provide a format
well suited for a school project that sets goals in the Ideas area and
requires the writing of observations in the Journal area.
> How does it
> perform with regards to animation of mechanisms?
Lego Designer provides decent animation. Annoyingly, for each frame of the
animation the user must select parts to rotate about a connector, rotate,
then deselect the rotated parts to create the frame. Finding and selecting
hidden parts to rotate proves difficult. The animation only runs in the
program, but copying each frame to another animation program may work if you
want to make a movie in a popular movie file format.
> Can parts be added to the
> library?
It does not look like it accepts new parts unless Lego provides them. The
parts bins and subassemblies include Mindstorms RCX sets, mini-figures,
Technic, plates, bricks, i.e., plenty of variety.
> Is there an alternate software that deals well with Lego mechanism
> animation?
Don't know of any.
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