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Lego digital designer Veerle 08-07-2009
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Posted by Veerle on August 7, 2009, 10:04 am
Anyone working with Lego digital designer to build a model? I manage
to create nice things in this software but for me there are a lot of
important features missing:

Functional:
- The ability when a brick is selected to see the properties (name,
size, part number, color, ...) of the brick, maybe in a status bar at
the bottom of the program
- The ability to get a list of all the bricks (name, size, part
number, color) needed for the current model without having to order
the model, preferably in a printable format like pdf
- When zoomed into a detail of the model, I would like to be able to
slide the model up/down/to the left/to the right because it always
zooms into the middle of the model
- The ability to change the color of the currently selected bricks all
at once, bricks that are not available in the new color can stay in
the original color
- When you pick a brick that has some bricks that are used along with
it very frequently, you should get that suggestion from the program.
For example: you select a wheel (rim), you get a suggestion of all the
tires that fit on it.
- The possibility to easily move a brick left, right, to the front, to
the back by one stud, for example by using the arrow buttons on the
keyboard

Available bricks:
- Some bricks can be bought in a set in a certain color (eg pink) but
are not available in that color in digital designer
- For mini-figures it's quite impossible to create a nice girl,
because all the clothes are for men
- A lot of nice doors and windows are missing

Maybe I should try to find a way to give this feedback to the lego
people themselves....


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