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> Make printing building instructions fun! Now I think again before printing from
> LDD.
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> Oh, and make the LDraw import/export work.
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> Jeroen (still happy with the 10183)
Dear Jeroen,
all the points you have mentioned are true. We UTB builders have beta tested the
LDD and came up with nearly all these wishes as well... (I myself asked
basically for LDraw-export/import).
In the end I could live with using LDD and build from the PC screen. With new
bricks flying into the model, you can see (sometimes guess) where they are
added. And you avoid the loads of paper prints.
The best workaround suggestion for these issues came from James Mathis: he
suggested to publish a standard DVD with a load of instructions. This would cost
LEGO only a very low budget in developing and production. And such a DVD could
possibly even come with a next generation UTB set, who knows?
This would be very helpful: you could build on the floor in your living room (as
we did as kids all the time) and use a standard TV + DVD player as available in
most homes. And this would avoid all trouble with the demanding LDD software
installation.
Bricks would "fly" into the model from step to step. You could add further
promotional stuff and even LDD and LDD files could be part of such a DVD.
And all this would be much cheaper than a paper print instruction.
On the other hand I have the impression, LEGO wants to use the 10183 set to
promote the factory and LDD software. So they want you to build from the running
LDD on your computer (and do not like you to have any other way of building the
featured models via paperwork or LDraw).
Leg Godt!
Ben
P.s.: I hope nothing of this message hurts the NDA we have signed... It's always
hard to decide what info around 10183 is public and which better has to be kept
secret.
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| In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke wrote: --snip-- (...) Of course one thing which we have been told does _not_ break the NDA is to release our[1] own instructions in LDraw format or as LDraw generated PDFs. Once people start making (...) (17 years ago, 6-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| (...) Unfortunately, that won't work for me. My computer (typing on it now) is running 64 bit Ubuntu Linux. I've managed to get MLCad and TrackDesigner running under 32 bit Wine (Windows emulator), since 64 bit Linux is happy to run 32 bit programs. (...) (17 years ago, 7-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| Hi, Last Saterday it arrived, my 10183. It is an awesome set with loads of parts and possibilities. But after building the crocodile (building instructions included in the box), we (my daughter, son and I) wanted to build one (or two) of the other (...) (17 years ago, 6-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd, lugnet.dear-lego)
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