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'''LEGO Digital Designer''' is a discontinued CAD program for designing LEGO models. It was originally designed by [[Qube Software]], based on software originally made for the 2002 game ''[[Creator: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]''. The LEGO Group transferred its development to an internal team in 2006. In 2022 it was officially discontinued in favor of [[BrickLink Studio]].
== Features ==
=== Qube version ===
{{infobox video game
| developer = [[Qube Software]]
| producer = {{ubl|Mike Gott|Martin Prüss|[[Bits N' Bricks{{!}}Ronny Scherer]]}}
| designer = Servan Keondjian
| programmer = Marc Sutton
| artist = {{ubl|Neal Petty|William Turner|Claus Sennov}}
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=== LEGO Digital Designer 2 ===
<ref name="LDD credits 1.6">{{cite video game |title=LEGO Digital Designer |developer=[[Qube Software]] |date=14 March 2006 |platform=Windows |version=1.6 |scene=Credits |language=English |quote=}} File path: <samp>LEGO Digital Designer\database\ui\localized\eng\credits.xml</samp></ref>
==History ==
Following the release of [[LEGO Creator: Harry Potter]] in 2001, LEGO Software moved development of a fourth ''LEGO Creator'' title from [[Superscape]] to [[Qube Software]].
<ref name="BNB43"/>
The first version of LEGO Digital Designer was released on 24 July 2003.<ref name="q news 03"/> The project developed by a team of four programmers led by Marc Sutton.<ref name="Sutton"/>
Version 1.3, released in November 2004, updated the program's engine to Q 1.1.1.<ref name="q power 04"/> Qube Software announced on 4 March 2005 that the next version of Digital Designer would be the first software using the Q engine to be available for [[Wikipedia:Mac OS X|Mac OS X]].<ref name="q news mac"/> Version 1.4 was announced on 26 July 2005 and released on 26 August.<ref name="q news v14"/><ref name="q news13"/> Version 1.5 released on 20 December 2005.<ref name="q news v15"/> Version 1.6, released on 8 May 2006, updated the engine to Q 1.1.2.<ref name="q news20"/><ref name="q power 06"/>
1.6 was the final version of LDD developed by Qube Software. In 2006 Qube pitched an idea for an online game based on LDD to the LEGO Group. The game would have featured an online world where each user would have their own baseplate, and players could travel through the world to other players' bases. Every day a user logged in, they would receive a certain amount of new bricks they could build with. Qube submitted several versions of this pitch, but the LEGO Group rejected them. LEGO also decided to take control of LDD from Qube and continue developing it internally.{{R|BNB43|p=18}}
Qube Software claimed on their website that LEGO Digital Designer had been used by over five hundred thousand people by November 2004,<ref name="q power 04"/> by over one million people by August 2005,<ref name="q power 05"/> and by over 1.5 million by May 2006.<ref name="q power 06"/> The podcast ''[[Bits N' Bricks]]'' claimed in 2022 that LEGO Digital Designer had been downloaded over one million times by September 2004.{{R|BNB47|p=11}}
== References ==
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  <ref name="BNB47">{{cite web |url=https://www.lego.com/cdn/cs/set/assets/bltf643219fa5bd3d27/bits_n_bricks_s05e47_feature_and_transcript.pdf |title=Episode 47 – The Rise of BrickLink |last1=Crecente |first1=Brian |last2=Vincent |first2=Ethan |others=Participants: Tormod Askildsen, Tim Courtney, Tue Jakobsen, Junam Kim, Servan Keondjian, and Eliska Jezkova |date=1 February 2022 |work=[[Bits N' Bricks]] |type=Podcast |publisher=The LEGO Group |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240515002320/https://www.lego.com/cdn/cs/set/assets/bltf643219fa5bd3d27/bits_n_bricks_s05e47_feature_and_transcript.pdf |archive-date=15 May 2024 |url-status=live }} [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNkck_-_rEg Audio version] via YouTube.</ref>
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  <ref name="Sutton">{{cite web |url=https://codev.uk/marc-sutton-cv.pdf |first=Marc |last=Sutton |title=Marc Sutton - Resume |date=26 September 2023 |website=Codev |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231209085211/https://codev.uk/marc-sutton-cv.pdf |archive-date=2023-12-09 |access-date=9 July 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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  <ref name="q news mac">{{cite web |url=http://qdn.qubesoft.com/index.php?main=news |title=LDD for Mac OS X Announced |date=4 March 2005 |website=Q Developer Network |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060708021717/http://qdn.qubesoft.com:80/index.php?main=news |archive-date=8 July 2006}}</ref>
  <ref name="q news v14">{{cite web |url=http://qdn.qubesoft.com/index.php?main=news |title=LDD 1.4 for Windows and Mac OS X |date=26 July 2005 |website=Q Developer Network |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060708021717/http://qdn.qubesoft.com:80/index.php?main=news |archive-date=8 July 2006}}</ref>
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  <ref name="q news v15">{{cite web |url=http://qdn.qubesoft.com/index.php?main=news |title=LDD 1.5 Released |date=20 December 2005 |website=Q Developer Network |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070923031119/http://qdn.qubesoft.com/index.php?main=news |archive-date=23 September 2007}}</ref>
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Revision as of 06:53, 8 March 2025

LEGO Digital Designer
Developer(s)
Initial release24 July 2003; 21 years ago (2003-07-24)[1]
Final release
4.3.12 / 30 July 2019; 5 years ago (2019-07-30)[2]
Operating systemWindows, Mac OS X
Platform
SuccessorBrickLink Studio
Available inEnglish, German
TypeComputer-aided design
Websiteldd.lego.com

LEGO Digital Designer is a discontinued program for designing LEGO models.

Features

History

LDD was announced in April 2003 and released in July. [4]: 15 

References

  1. ↑ "News". Qube Software. 24 July 2003. Archived from the original on 31 July 2003. 24-Jul-2003 – LEGO Digital Designer ships!
  2. ↑ "setupldd-pc-4_3_12.exe". LEGO.com (Executable file). 30 July 2019. File date (obtained via wget). Archived from the original on 10 September 2019.
  3. ↑ "LEGO Digital Designer: Download". LEGO.com. Archived from the original on 26 November 2009.
  4. ↑ Crecente, Brian; Vincent, Ethan (8 December 2021). "Episode 43 – The LEGO Game That Unlocked True Digital Creation" (PDF). Bits N' Bricks (Podcast). Participants: Servan Keondjian, Ronny Scherer, and Rob Smith. The LEGO Group. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 October 2023. Audio version via YouTube.

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