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Datsville – a Lego-inspired city started in 1999 by LUGNET using the LDraw CAD

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The high-resolution image is extremely satisfying to scroll around in: https://mjhorvath.github.io/Datsville/docs/high-resolution-r...

I recently got to play with Lego because my daughter, who is five, got interested in it. There are attractive boxes for girls, it's called Lego Friends and the figures are a bit more life like.

> I recently got to play with Lego because my daughter, who is five, got interested in it. There are attractive boxes for girls, it's called Lego Friends and the figures are a bit more life like.

Nice! ;)

If you need user-friendly CAD for creating digital Lego models (for planning builds before build it) try LeoCAD app with LDraw Parts Library.[0,1,2]

[0] https://github.com/leozide/leocad/releases/tag/continuous

[1] https://www.leocad.org/

[2] https://github.com/symbian9/awesome-ldraw

Wow, looks good! Is there a way to order all the pieces of such a model?

You can upload the parts list to Bricklink. They have a feature that attempts to find the cheapest combination of sellers to minimize cost.

For generate BrickLink Parts List[0] for created model using LeoCAD, in LeoCAD go to menu "File > Export > BrickLink..." and save its XML-file.

Then you could use this XML-file for order all needed pieces.[1]

[0] https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=207

[1] http://guidetobricklink.com/uploading-a-parts-list

I tried LeoCAD the other day and found it a nightmarish interface. I've been trying to convince a friend who enjoys building to find a cad program to make sets in, and Leo promised export functionality. We quickly ran into issues where parts do not automatically snap together and do not move correctly (a part required 1/4 offset and only 1/3 offsets are provided).

When we exported our models to another Lego cad program, the new program tore our models apart, finding issues with almost every piece (due to them being partly inside each other or other things).

My friend is an engineer who is very used to CAD software, but struggled immensely with the features provided in the package. This pains me because I was so excited about it being Open Source.

Edit because my post sounded confrontational: I desperately would appreciate tips as to what we may have done wrong, our struggles in placing flowers on a baseplate compared to the models LeoCAD claims to have produced means we must have been messing up really bad.

Kinda reminds me of sim town. I always wanted an amalgamation of sim-city/minecraft/gta but gta in the sense of being able to explore and interact with the city from the ground so to speak.

If you really want to get crazy it would be fun if you could drive through the corn fiend and see the corn break apart into the little block pieces. Destroying buildings or objects in the world breaks them into bricks. Add some physics and give us a true lego building world where we can make our own lego cities then smash them apart. Because you know you played godzilla with your legos...

> Kinda reminds me of sim town.

Datsville-RPG, LEGO-themed strategy RPG made with RPG Maker, now is WIP too![0,1]

[0] https://github.com/mjhorvath/Datsville-RPG

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTkwaZ4Y7f0&list=PLov7Lq9jgP...

What's the dark thing in the cornfield near the futuristic house? A cow?

1. Download Datsville repo from GitHub;

2. Unpack folder `datsville_master` somewhere on your drive;

3. Open `../datsville_master/datsville_master.ldr` file in LeoCAD;

4. Zoom to interested area.

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