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> I recently got to play with Lego because my daughter, who is five, got interested in it. There are attractive boxes for girls, it's called Lego Friends and th

> I recently got to play with Lego because my daughter, who is five, got interested in it. There are attractive boxes for girls, it's called Lego Friends and the figures are a bit more life like. Nice! ;) If you need user-friendly CAD for creating digital Lego models (for planning builds before build it) try LeoCAD app with LDraw Parts Library.[0,1,2] [0] https://github.com/leozide/leocad/releases/tag/continuous https://github.com/leozide/leocad/releases/tag/continuous [1] https://www.leocad.org/ https://www.leocad.org/ [2] https://github.com/symbian9/awesome-ldraw https://github.com/symbian9/awesome-ldraw

cerberusss 7y ago
Wow, looks good! Is there a way to order all the pieces of such a model?
- JoeSmithson 7y ago
  You can upload the parts list to Bricklink. They have a feature that attempts to find the cheapest combination of sellers to minimize cost.
- app4soft 7y ago
  For generate BrickLink Parts List[0] for created model using LeoCAD, in LeoCAD go to menu "File > Export > BrickLink..." and save its XML-file. Then you could use this XML-file for order all needed pieces.[1] [0] https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=207 https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=207 [1] http://guidetobricklink.com/uploading-a-parts-list http://guidetobricklink.com/uploading-a-parts-list
tomcatfish 7y ago
I tried LeoCAD the other day and found it a nightmarish interface. I've been trying to convince a friend who enjoys building to find a cad program to make sets in, and Leo promised export functionality. We quickly ran into issues where parts do not automatically snap together and do not move correctly (a part required 1/4 offset and only 1/3 offsets are provided). When we exported our models to another Lego cad program, the new program tore our models apart, finding issues with almost every piece (due to them being partly inside each other or other things). My friend is an engineer who is very used to CAD software, but struggled immensely with the features provided in the package. This pains me because I was so excited about it being Open Source. Edit because my post sounded confrontational: I desperately would appreciate tips as to what we may have done wrong, our struggles in placing flowers on a baseplate compared to the models LeoCAD claims to have produced means we must have been messing up really bad.

cerberusss 7y ago

Wow, looks good! Is there a way to order all the pieces of such a model?

JoeSmithson 7y ago
You can upload the parts list to Bricklink. They have a feature that attempts to find the cheapest combination of sellers to minimize cost.
app4soft 7y ago
For generate BrickLink Parts List[0] for created model using LeoCAD, in LeoCAD go to menu "File > Export > BrickLink..." and save its XML-file. Then you could use this XML-file for order all needed pieces.[1] [0] https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=207 https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=207 [1] http://guidetobricklink.com/uploading-a-parts-list http://guidetobricklink.com/uploading-a-parts-list

tomcatfish 7y ago

I tried LeoCAD the other day and found it a nightmarish interface. I've been trying to convince a friend who enjoys building to find a cad program to make sets in, and Leo promised export functionality. We quickly ran into issues where parts do not automatically snap together and do not move correctly (a part required 1/4 offset and only 1/3 offsets are provided). When we exported our models to another Lego cad program, the new program tore our models apart, finding issues with almost every piece (due to them being partly inside each other or other things). My friend is an engineer who is very used to CAD software, but struggled immensely with the features provided in the package. This pains me because I was so excited about it being Open Source. Edit because my post sounded confrontational: I desperately would appreciate tips as to what we may have done wrong, our struggles in placing flowers on a baseplate compared to the models LeoCAD claims to have produced means we must have been messing up really bad.