LEGO® BrickLinkStudio ersätter LDD som LEGO-gruppens officiella 3D-byggprogram

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The LEGO Group will focus on BrickLink Studio and pull back support for LEGO® Digital Designer.
Signe Lønholdt
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At the end of January 2022, BrickLink Studio will be the LEGO Group's only public digital building software program, giving fans worldwide the opportunity to build models with an endless bin of bricks. Currently, the LEGO Group maintains two public 3D building programs: BrickLink Studio and LEGO® Digital Designer, known as LDD. The LEGO Group is committed to supporting the digital building community and, as such, will focus on Studio and will withdraw support for LDD. As a result, LDD will no longer be available for download after January 31, 2022. We are focusing 100% of our efforts on one building software. The BrickLink Studio software brings an integrated and excellent experience of designing, building, ordering bricks and sharing digital designs.

We'll continue to support the digital building community by focusing on BrickLink Studio, while LDD will be retired. This means that after the end of January, it will no longer be possible to download the program from LEGO.com/ldd. Fans with a current desktop version of LDD can continue using this program. However, the software won't be updated or maintained. Additionally, it will no longer be possible to download LDD from LEGO.com after end-January. Starting February 1st, visitors to LEGO.com/ldd will be redirected to BrickLink Studio. The BrickLink Studio team and community are excited and ready to welcome LDD Fans and help them get onboarded to BrickLink Studio.

If you have any memories you want to share about your experience with LDD or BrickLink Studio, please share them in the comment field below. Also, if you get any questions from community members: we're here to support. So please do connect here on the LAN and be the voice and we'll do our best to offer answers and support to LDD users.

A special episode of LEGO Bits N' Bricks Podcast will be dedicated to digital building with LEGO bricks. Subscribe to the podcast to get a notification when it's out.   

Please find BrickLink press release attached to this topic.


On behalf of Tormod Askildsen, Head of AFOL Engagement and Casper Thingholm, Head of BrickLink.

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PRESS RELEASE EMBARGOED UNTIL JANUARY 12th 2022 at 9am Pacific / 6pm CET

LEGO® BrickLink Studio to replace LEGO Digital Designer as the LEGO
Group's official 3D building app

The LEGO Digital Designer website will shut down at the end of January.
BrickLink Studio welcomes LEGO Digital Designer users.

Billund, 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 (LDD) website will close on January 31st, after which time
LDD will no longer be available for download. 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.

LEGO Digital Designer was released in 2004 as the LEGO Group's 3D building tool. 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. It has
played a prominent role in various offerings, from LEGO Factory, LEGO Design ByME, LEGO
video games and movies. 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.

"Our initial vision for LEGO Digital Designer back in 2002 was to make building on a computer
accessible and fun for children – to play with and share their creations online." said Ronny
Scherer, producer of the first-generation LEGO Digital Designer. "I am so impressed with how
the community of creators has evolved. Builders—enthusiasts and professionals alike—have
used LDD in wonderful and unexpected ways. They took ownership and created the most
amazing virtual LEGO models and have grown the virtual building ecosystem. I am so proud of
the team behind LDD and the greater virtual building community. They have truly inspired a
generation of digital LEGO creators."

Tormod Askildsen, head of AFOL Engagement for the LEGO Group, has been intrigued by digital
building since using LDD to bring alternate model instructions for the LEGO Factory Hobby Train
set to market in 2007. "When the LEGO Group acquired BrickLink," Askildsen said, "one of the
things that impressed and inspired us was their purposeful development of the Studio software.
For digital building to be not only a nice feature for some, but a meaningful part of many
people's LEGO building experience, it must be an integrated and useful part of both the design,
the building and the sharing experience. The talented team behind Studio see this clearly and
continue relentlessly to further innovate and improve the Studio experience".

In 2014, then-independent BrickLink created the BrickLink Studio software as a free virtual
LEGO building tool. Studio was built on the industry-standard Unity gaming engine and is
designed to integrate with the BrickLink Marketplace. Its .io file format is based on the fan
community-developed LDraw standard with part connectivity data added to give digital bricks
clutch power. Users can import LEGO models built in LDD, LDraw, and other popular tools.
Studio includes useful features like model stability checking, built-in photo-realistic rendering,
and an integrated instructions maker.

"Studio was created because at BrickLink, there is a great belief in how digital LEGO building
could unlock true potential of everyone's creativity by lowering the entry barriers and
motivating people to inspire each other," says Casper Thingholm, Head of BrickLink. "Going
forward, the Studio team will continue to focus on making digital building as intuitive as
physical building, and encourage even more builders to share their creations to inspire and help
each other."

-ENDS

For more information, please contact Tanja Friberg via the LEGO Ambassador Network.

About LEGO BrickLink
BrickLink is an online marketplace for LEGO® products and represents a vibrant adult fan
community. The website was founded in April 2000 and acquired by the LEGO Group in 2019.
BrickLink currently has more than 1 million members, 600 million LEGO items for sale, and over
9,000 LEGO fan designs on display in the Studio Gallery. For more
information: www.bricklink.com and @bricklink on Instagram and Twitter.

About the LEGO Group
The LEGO Group's mission is to inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow through the
power of play. The LEGO System in Play, with its foundation in LEGO® bricks, allows children
and fans to build and rebuild anything they can imagine.  

The LEGO Group was founded in Billund, Denmark in 1932 by Ole Kirk Kristiansen, its name
derived from the two Danish words LEg GOdt, which mean "Play Well". Today, the LEGO Group
remains a family-owned company headquartered in Billund. However, its products are now sold
in more than 140 countries worldwide. For more information: www.LEGO.com