

Now after almost twenty years since its conception and eighteen years in distribution, LEGO Digital Designer will retire and pass the mantle to BrickLink Studio as the officially supported and maintained 3D building application. It has played a prominent role in various offerings, from LEGO Factory, LEGO Design ByME, LEGO video games and movies. LDD pioneered real-time rendering of LEGO bricks, virtual brick connectivity, and the compact LEGO Exchange file format (LXF) which made LEGO models built in LDD light and portable. LEGO Digital Designer was released in 2004 as the LEGO Group’s 3D building tool. While downloaded versions of the LDD application will continue to work, people are encouraged to download BrickLink Studio, import their LDD files, and use Studio for 3D LEGO building files, and use Studio for 3D LEGO building. The LEGO Digital Designer (LDD) website will close on January 31st, after which time LDD will no longer be available for download. BrickLink Studio welcomes LEGO Digital Designer users.īillund, Denmark – January 12th, 2022: Today, the LEGO Group announces that BrickLink Studio will replace LEGO Digital Designer as the official virtual LEGO building software going forward.

The LEGO Digital Designer website will shut down at the end of January. LEGO BrickLink Studio to replace LEGO Digital Designer as the LEGO Group’s official 3D building app The LEGO Digital Designer will be offline on January 31st. Now rebranded as Bricklink Studio, it will become the primary program for LEGO moccers and novice designers as LEGO slowly expands their absorption of all things AFOL (Adult Fan of LEGO). This shouldn’t come as a surprise since LEGO unceremoniously bought Bricklink a couple of years back, they not only obtained a tonne of customer data, they also got a pretty robust LEGO design programme in the form of Stud.io to boot. LEGO Digital Designer, a relic of the last decade
