polewpan.blogg.se - Lego digital building instructions

"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. I tried LDD at first, but frankly, the order in which it adds the parts is often quite nonsensical: