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Re: LEGO Factory Updated
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 10 May 2006 00:08:33 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
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http://www.legofactory.com
As mentioned last month, LEGO Factory has just now been updated with quite a
few improvements - including individual part pricing rather than by-the-bag
pricing - among several other things. There’s a new LDD (v1.6) released,
which also runs on Intel Macs, and more than 500 different bricks, including
elements for trains and minifigs as well as decorated bricks. Oh, and
one more important thing...
It includes an LDraw Exporter.
I haven’t downloaded and played with it yet, but I’m about to. The press
release says there will be about a 60% savings over bag-based palettes.
Kelly
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Agh! I love that you can buy models priced per-part, but the part placing is
driving me nuts! Tiles are the worst - they just won’t fit.
Try placing two headlight bricks (1x1 brick with stud on side) side-by side,
then attaching a 1x4 tile centred on their side studs - impossible! Try placing
a 1x3 plate, then add a 1x2 tile on the end stud, at 90° to the 1x3 plate -
again, it just won’t take it. In some cases, it’ll accept it in a half-stud
offset position, actually impinging on solid studs.
Why can we only move pieces up and down by manual control? Why can’t we have
keys for forcing a piece to move forward/back/left/right too?
I’d love to transfer my MLCAD models to this, but I simply can’t build them on
the digital designer.
Please LEGO can we have full manual placing controls, and please can we have an
option to disable volume collisions so we can build things we know work in real
life?
Jason R
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| "Jason J Railton" <j.j.railton@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:Iz0wE9.16Bq@lugnet.com... (...) I tried to do what you described below, and it would appear the LDD designers have forgotten some rather common and obvious connections. (...) The (...) (18 years ago, 10-May-06, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) If you put all four headlight bricks in place for the 1x4 tile to "snap" to, it'll work. You can then remove the two outer headlight bricks. I know your point is that some things that should work don't (no argument there!) but it's also true (...) (18 years ago, 10-May-06, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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