LEGO digital designer

[Ryan M.]

I have used MLCAD/LDraw so this is interesting for me. There are several features which LDraw lacks which I would love to have, and I was hoping that LEGO Designer might deliver those.

It did get some:

• Snap to align with top of other bricks/holes. Granted, getting a peg to snap into a whole took some moving around, but eventually...
• Ability to limit to a certain set of pieces. I could see how that would be handy for a professor.

The things I didn't like:

• The odd controls. It took me forever to discover that holding down the right mouse button rotates the current piece. None of the help tips told me that...
• The help tips which pop up all the time. After the first time you read them they aren't needed...
• You are limited to a certain set's pieces (as in, the actual pieces included with a LEGO model). I'm hoping that someday you can go into "unlimited mode" or at least use multiple sets' pieces in the same model.
• Limited pieces. The models they do have don't have many of the technic pieces I use a lot of. However, it looks like that is expandable.

Overall, it could be very nice someday, but at the moment I'll stick it LDraw.