Might work on a different machine, though, or a more recent OS. Allegedly it can also export to PDF, and integrates with POV-Ray for higher-quality images, but sadly neither of these options works for me (as I said, there are some bugs). LIC will also automatically create a parts list as the last page of the instructions. add text labels such as part counts, your name, really anything.make a template for your instructions (things like fonts, font sizes, background color, and so on and so forth), so instructions for different models have the same, your very personal, look and feel."displace parts with arrows" (just like in TLG's instructions, where the part has not been connected to the model yet, but an arrow shows where it's supposed to go and which way around) - this can be done in any direction, up or down, left and right, top and bottom, and for several parts, too.rotate individual parts or the entire model, automatically adding rotation icons if you wish.move everything around the page freely.move individual parts between the steps.switch between vertical and horizontal layout.Some of the things you can do with it are: (Scroll down for sample images of the final instructions for two models.)īasically, it's a WYSIWYG editor that takes an LDraw model as input. But it's very easy to use, quite versatile, and I am more than happy with the results. It's beta, somewhat buggy, and for all I can see it was written by just one AFOL in his spare time, and the development has stopped. So what I ended up using, with great success, is LIC (LEGO Instruction Creator). I also tried a bunch of other tools, some of which are mentioned elsewhere on this page, with mixed results. Some parts - especially the very new, or very specialized parts - are not available in any of them.I tried LDD at first, but frankly, the order in which it adds the parts is often quite nonsensical: Most common parts are available in all three, but some of the less common or older parts are not. One caveat is that none of the above solutions has all available parts in it.
It will tell you how much a certain part (or your whole model) will typically cost on BrickLink, and if a certain part is unavailable in a certain color. It also has the advantage that it integrates with BrickLink. It's in open beta but seems quite user-friendly. Some of them, like LeoCAD, are fairly user-friendly.Ī recent arrival is Stud.io. These programs tend to be harder to use, but much more flexible. There is a system of programs based on LDraw. Also, LEGO has discontinued support for it. However, it is only available for Windows and Mac. This has the advantage of being free and quite easy to use, including automatically snapping connections together.
The most commonly used one is Lego Digital Designer (often called LDD).
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