![]() Tormod Askildsen, head of AFOL Engagement for the LEGO Group, has been intrigued by digital building since using LDD to bring alternate model instructions for the LEGO Factory Hobby Train set to market in 2007. They have truly inspired a generation of digital LEGO creators.” ![]() I am so proud of the team behind LDD and the greater virtual building community. They took ownership and created the most amazing virtual LEGO models and have grown the virtual building ecosystem. Builders-enthusiasts and professionals alike-have used LDD in wonderful and unexpected ways. “I am so impressed with how the community of creators has evolved. “Our initial vision for LEGO Digital Designer back in 2002 was to make building on a computer accessible and fun for children – to play with and share their creations online.” said Ronny Scherer, producer of the first-generation LEGO Digital Designer. Now after almost twenty years since its conception and eighteen years in distribution, LEGO Digital Designer will retire and pass the mantle to BrickLink Studio as the officially supported and maintained 3D building application. It has played a prominent role in various offerings, from LEGO Factory, LEGO Design ByME, LEGO video games and movies. LDD pioneered real-time rendering of LEGO bricks, virtual brick connectivity, and the compact LEGO Exchange file format (LXF) which made LEGO models built in LDD light and portable. LEGO Digital Designer was released in 2004 as the LEGO Group’s 3D building tool. While downloaded versions of the LDD application will continue to work, people are encouraged to download BrickLink Studio, import their LDD files, and use Studio for 3D LEGO building files, and use Studio for 3D LEGO building. The LEGO Digital Designer (LDD) website will close on January 31st, after which time LDD will no longer be available for download. BrickLink Studio welcomes LEGO Digital Designer users.īillund, Denmark – January 12th, 2022: Today, the LEGO Group announces that BrickLink Studio will replace LEGO Digital Designer as the official virtual LEGO building software going forward. The LEGO Digital Designer website will shut down at the end of January. LEGO BrickLink Studio to replace LEGO Digital Designer as the LEGO Group’s official 3D building app The LEGO Digital Designer will be offline on January 31st. Now rebranded as Bricklink Studio, it will become the primary program for LEGO moccers and novice designers as LEGO slowly expands their absorption of all things AFOL (Adult Fan of LEGO). This shouldn’t come as a surprise since LEGO unceremoniously bought Bricklink a couple of years back, they not only obtained a tonne of customer data, they also got a pretty robust LEGO design programme in the form of Stud.io to boot. ![]() On behalf of Tormod Askildsen, Head of AFOL Engagement and Casper Thingholm, Head of BrickLink.LEGO Digital Designer, a relic of the last decade Please find BrickLink press release attached to this topic. Subscribe to the podcast to get a notification when it’s out. So please do connect here on the LAN and be the voice and we’ll do our best to offer answers and support to LDD users.Ī special episode of LEGO Bits N' Bricks Podcast will be dedicated to digital building with LEGO bricks. Also, if you get any questions from community members: we’re here to support. If you have any memories you want to share about your experience with LDD or BrickLink Studio, please share them in the comment field below. The BrickLink Studio team and community are excited and ready to welcome LDD Fans and help them get onboarded to BrickLink Studio. Starting February 1st, visitors to /ldd will be redirected to BrickLink Studio. Additionally, it will no longer be possible to download LDD from after end-January. However, the software won’t be updated or maintained. Fans with a current desktop version of LDD can continue using this program. This means that after the end of January, it will no longer be possible to download the program from /ldd. We’ll continue to support the digital building community by focusing on BrickLink Studio, while LDD will be retired. The BrickLink Studio software brings an integrated and excellent experience of designing, building, ordering bricks and sharing digital designs. We are focusing 100% of our efforts on one building software. ![]() As a result, LDD will no longer be available for download after January 31, 2022. The LEGO Group is committed to supporting the digital building community and, as such, will focus on Studio and will withdraw support for LDD. Currently, the LEGO Group maintains two public 3D building programs: BrickLink Studio and LEGO® Digital Designer, known as LDD. At the end of January 2022, BrickLink Studio will be the LEGO Group’s only public digital building software program, giving fans worldwide the opportunity to build models with an endless bin of bricks. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |