You are free to use these files however you like, create derivitave works, etc. This could be useful for a number of purposes, including designing things from parts in each set without physically having the set, or if you want to model something you've built from a set in LDD without having to go hunting for parts. The up-to-date version of this page can be found here.īelow, you can find a selection of LEGO® Education sets, with all the parts laid out in It is no longer updated with new sets or to correct errors. It would probably be quicker to make the model from scratch in the 3D modelling program directly.This is an outdated version of this page, preserved so that any links don't break. You would likely have to do a lot of work making the model printable.

Modelling for 3D printing is a lot different from modelling from LEGO bricks. Now for the next issue, once you have your 3D mesh into another program, is it good for printing? Even without knowing specifics, I doubt it. I don't know of any complete tools that actually do this though. I know some people have done some research into directly converting LDD models directly into 3D mesh, by reverse engineering the file formats.

If LDD does not know how to map a part to LDraw, it could also be missing.

If you are using a piece that your LDraw program does not have in the library, it will be missing.

This is probably your better option, but it also has some caveats:

This means the mesh you get out may be missing some things you might expect.Ĭonvert to LDraw, and open in an LDraw compatible program that can export 3D meshes.

LDD optimizes the drawing by removing the faces of parts that are not visible.

There is some software which will attempt to capture 3D mesh from memory. So getting 3D mesh data out of LDD is tricky to say the least.

LDraw files are similarly structured like the LXF files.

The actual part data is stored in binary files inside the various LIF files. They only contain information on how to assemble the parts.

LDD won't get any new features any time soon, as it is no longer being updated.

LEGO Digital Designer cannot do 3D printing.

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