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....