Software Santa
FREE and/or Open Source Desktop Software! => What is it? => Hobby Hutch => Topic started by: Software Santa on January 30, 2007, 04:14:44 PM
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LEGO ® Digital Designer virtual 3D Lego modeling For Windows or Mac X
OK, Now What is This?
You Can Create Pictures of Plans: Is it a GRAPHICS Based Tool?
You can Layout your Cubicle Farm before you sardine-can real people into it: It's a Productivity/Office Tool!?
A 3D Modeler? A TOY? (Software Santa would Guess it's a TOY but some serious looking adults are 'playing' with it and making some Serious Looking models)
(http://cache.lego.com/upload/contentTemplating/LDDDictionary/images/2057/picA75BFB2D-A337-43EB-8BD8-28645DF98278.jpg)
As far back as 1999, a group of visionary LEGO product developers and engineers started thinking about letting people design their own LEGO products. They imagined people of all ages, anywhere in the world, being able create any design they could dream up using an intuitive, free tool for digital design.
The first milestone was achieved in July 2003, when version 1.0 of LEGO Digital Designer was released. In February 2004, an online 3D Gallery went live, allowing designers to share their ideas via the Internet. By 2005, thousands of LEGO Factory enthusiasts were designing, sharing and ordering their own custom models and the one-millionth copy of LEGO Digital Designer was downloaded on 25 September that year.
Now at version 1.6, LEGO Digital Designer is quite simply the best virtual building system out there – with its “Click-Stick†method of 3D modeling winning praise from children, parents, teachers and design enthusiasts everywhere. And, as the virtual design platform behind a growing number of LEGO products, LEGO Digital Designer is here to stay. A host of improvements and new features are already in development, including an improved user interface, new connectivity, more life-like building, Technic compatibility and improved train building and animation. So stay tuned – with LEGO Digital Designer, the future is yours.
New version 1.6!
Version 1.6 of LEGO Digital Designer offers many improvements and great new features, including:
• New brick assortment
• Support for train elements
• Animated trains
• Backgrounds in view mode
• Sound effects
• Minifigs and decorated bricks
• HTML building instructions
• Copy, Cut, Paste, Select All
• Ldraw exporter
• New “Check Price†button
• Mac version runs on Intel Macs
Disclaimer:
The LEGO Group of companies (LEGO) is providing LEGO® Digital Designer 1.6 (the Software) at no charge. Any commercial use of the software is strictly prohibited. The entire risk arising out of the use or performance of the software remains with you. The software is provided as-is without any warranty of any kind. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall LEGO be liable for any damages arising out of the use or inability to use the software. To install and use the software, you must agree to the terms of the LEGO Digital Designer 1.6 License Agreement included with the software. Please be sure to read the License Agreement before installing LEGO Digital Designer 1.6 on your system.
Minimum System Requirements for PC
Operating system:
Windows 98, 98SE, ME, 2000 and XP.
CPU: 450 MHz Pentium III or faster processor
Graphics card:
16 MB graphics card
(DirectX 8.0 or higher compatible)
RAM: 128 MB
Hard Disk Space: 100 MB
Minimum System Requirements for Mac
Operating system:
OS X 10.3.9 or 10.4.6
CPU: G4 or faster processor
Graphics card:
NVidia GeForce 5200/ATI Radeon 7500 or better
RAM: 256 MB
Hard Disk Space: 100 MB
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