“Be reminded of your youth with these virtual lego bricks”

When I was little one of my favorite toys was a Lego set of pieces which I used to build just about anything, from a house for my dolls to a supersonic spaceship. This is probably the reason why I was delighted to discover a digital version of that good old Lego box.

Lego Digital Designer provides you with a huge amount of Lego pieces of all sorts and sizes with which you can build anything you can come up with. Besides free creation, you can also use pre-rendered 3D figures included in Lego Digital Designer, either for editing them or for taking them as models for your own designs.

The program displays a 3D working area to place pieces than can be panned, zoomed or moved in any direction to get a better view of your creation. Just bear in mind that you need to be extremely accurate with your mouse and move the working area a lot in order to get pieces in the appropriate spot.

Pieces are selected from a floating menu: you'll find them conveniently organized by categories and grouped by size. And you know what? They're endless, like in any child's dream! Once your work of Lego-art is done, you can upload to an online gallery or even order it in real Lego pieces.

Lego Digital Designer enables you to build anything with Lego on your PC and share it online.

Languages:

English, German

Recent changes in LEGO Digital Designer:

Improved building experience
Quicker selection of bricks
Easier to connect bricks when building
New brick palette tool for easy use
More Bricks in the palette
Partly built models for easy start up
New backgrounds for model view
Support for the Market Street and the Hobby Train box
Improved virtual building instruction generation

OS requirements for LEGO Digital Designer:

OS: Win98/98SE/Me/2000/XP

Minimum requirements:

Processor: 450
Memory: 128
Video: 16
Free space: 100 MB

Pros

Hundreds of pieces to choose from
Includes built models to get you started
Great 3D designing environment

Cons

Requires extreme mouse accuracy

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From the publisher of LEGO Digital Designer

With Digital Designer, you can build anything in your imagination using virtual bricks, right on your computer.

This version has increased stability and a brand new set of LEGO elements for you to build with. You can also print out an inventory of your creation and take it to any LEGOLAND theme park or LEGO Store and purchase the pieces you need to turn your virtual model into a reality!