Lego Digital Designer for Windows

Name: Lego Digital Designer
Rating: 3.7 (54 reviews)
Author: Lego Systems

By Lego SystemsFreeUser Rating

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Key Details of Lego Digital Designer

Create virtual LEGO bricks and work with them on your PC
Last updated on 03/22/13
There have been 0 updates within the past 6 months
The current version has 1 flag on VirusTotal
Also available on Mac

Editors' Review

Download.com staffMarch 22, 2013

Lego Digital Designer gives users the chance to play with Legos without paying for Legos. Loaded with features, the drawbacks are minor and this program is a lot of fun to use.

The program links to the Lego online store, but there's more going on here than corporate shilling. The graphics-intensive program seamlessly zooms in and out, rotates your point-of-view 360 degrees, connects bricks to each other, rotates them, and moves any hinges they might have so you can explore how your pieces fit together. Parts include basic bricks, model jet engines, and infrared sensors. The Brick Palette puts all your bricks in one basket, so to speak, so that managing them is no more difficult than keeping track of more than two dozen subpalettes that catalogue the variations.

Seventeen prebuilt models are included to help beginners. You can place your model against a cheesy 3D background, save it, take a screenshot, explode it only to have it reassembled on the next mouse click. There's an option to watch an animated guide on how to recreate whatever complex design you just built. In addition to all this, you can send your model to Lego.com to share with other Lego builders.

The user interface for Version 2 is a big improvement, although some controls could be more intuitive. The app chows on RAM, so those with older machines should be prepared for serious slow-downs if they can get the program to run at all. Still, it's a great facsimile for replicating the fun of Lego bricks digitally, and since its free, it's the cheapest Lego experience you'll ever have.

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Full Specifications

WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 4.3.6: Version 4.3.6 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

GENERAL

Release: March 22, 2013

Latest update: April 25, 2020

Version: 4.3.6

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System: Windows 10, Windows Vista, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP

Additional Requirements: None

POPULARITY

Total Downloads: 135,377

Downloads Last Week: 0

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3.7/5

54 User Votes

Don't do it
JLPear12/21/2013
Pros
If you like Bing it is just fine.
Cons
I don't like Bing. Or adware. Or viruses.
Summary
Last night, after spending hours customizing my son's brand new laptop for his birthday, I downloaded this program. I will admit, I blew through the disclaimers but I trusted you! Years of downloading from this site with no problems gave me a completely false sense of security. I totally understand you need revenue but this is absolutely not legitimate adware (if there is such a thing). I have extensive experience in removing junk my kids download and I've had some nasty viruses myself I've never seen anything like this. It is now 7:00 in the morning, I've been up all night and my boy just ran down the stairs excited to get his gift. I can't give it to him because I'm running system recovery praying that when I restart it again, I won't get another offer to fix my infected laptop or see Bing where there should be Chrome. System recovery on an hours old laptop. For shame.
A good solution, just it.
gustavow11/7/2012
Pros
Free and very configurable. Easy to use.
Cons
Lack of views and some pieces. Do not show dinamics.
Summary
Good for begginers in DD.
Fun computer program
Tech_Monkey_4205/13/2012
Pros
It's fun especially the "LDD extended" "theme" because there are a-lot more bricks and a-lot more colors to choose from
Cons
it doesn't have all of the pieces it may be hard to use for some but once you get used to it it's quite fun
Summary
Not the best Lego software out there
eg1801/8/2012
Pros
It's free and you can build lego stuff with it. The building is very accurate and the pieces snap together like they should.
Cons
Limited library of pieces. It mostly includes pieces from their newer sets so that you can order the (ridiculously overpriced) parts from them to build what you make in the real world. The whole program is centered around getting you to buy custom lego sets. The 3D viewer is horrible, it's hard to move around your design in the 3D space.
Summary
Like I said above, this product may be free, but it's really just a commercial endeavor. They want you to build custom Lego creations and then pay way too much so that they can box up the parts and send them to you. The library of parts is bad, you can only use stuff they're currently manufacturing and in colors they're currently making them, so that they don't have to make anything special to send to you. If you're just out for making cool 3D Lego creations or make instructions for your custom Lego creation or you want to design something virtually using parts you have on hand before you build it in the real world, try LeoCad. It has all of the classic parts and a lot of the custom parts. It is better than this software because its goal isn't to get you to buy stuff.
Cool and you don't have to clean up!
jt986749/22/2011
Pros
Good program kids love it!!
Cons
Need internet to fully use all of it's features.
Summary
great for buying special peices that you want.
coby4107/31/2011
Pros
has almost all of the peices ever.
Cons
kind of hard to use.
Summary
UM NEEED HELP
234zarra7/30/2011
Pros
i like digital lego designar
Cons
please help
Summary
un i need help it says my open gl driver is missing or outdated what is that??
Excellent Product!!
JamesAndersonJr5/30/2011
Pros
Excellent product, and yes this does bring back memories for me...sniff.. sniffle :-(
Cons
I have one gripe. I wish the help guide was in PDF format or CHM because the help guide now is in HTML though it is stored on the hard drive, and the icon for help is just a blank icon.
Summary
Why the help HTML document is just a blank icon in my start menu is possibly because I haven't set a default HTML document handler (opener). Though I have several browsers, and HTML editors on my computer. However, I haven't test this theory in full because I don't want to set one program to take over all HTML files (besides the ones on the internet of course) on my computer.
Won't install completely.
dforness4/19/2011
Pros
If I didn't have the problem shown below, I think it would be fine. Rating is based on my expectation from using previous version.
Cons
Can't get it to load completely on my computer. Tried several times installing and uninstalling but it doesn't finish to the place where the X in the top right corner is red. Have to use Task Manager to close it. Windows XP, SP3.
Summary
Previous version worked perfect. Grandson loved it. Now it's also gone as a result of this happening.
Awesome. grandmother easy.
jaelce4/13/2011
Pros
Selection, manipulation, and placement of pieces is straight forward.
Cons
haven't found any yet.
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Developer's Description

By Lego Systems

Create virtual LEGO bricks and work with them on your PC.

With the free Digital Designer software you can build absolutely anything with virtual LEGO bricks right on your computer. Then you can buy the real bricks to build your creation online in Lego Factory, or you can print out an inventory of bricks and take it to any Legoland theme park or Lego Store.

Lego Digital Designer for Windows

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User Reviews

Don't do it

A good solution, just it.

Fun computer program

Not the best Lego software out there

Cool and you don't have to clean up!

great for buying special peices that you want.

UM NEEED HELP

Excellent Product!!

Won't install completely.

Awesome. grandmother easy.

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