The LEGO Group will continue to support the digital building community by focusing on BrickLink Studio, while LDD will be retired. 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. The BrickLink Studio software brings an integrated and excellent experience of designing, building, ordering bricks and sharing digital designs. The LEGO Group is focusing 100% of its efforts on one building software. As a result, LDD will no longer be available for download after January 31, 2022. The LEGO Group is committed to supporting the digital building community and, as such, will focus on Studio and will withdraw support for LDD. Currently, the LEGO Group maintains two public 3D building programs: BrickLink Studio and LEGO Digital Designer, known as LDD. 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.Īt 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. The LEGO Digital Designer (LDD) website will close on January 31st, after which time LDD will no longer be available for download. Details below.īillund, Denmark – January 12th, 2022 : Today, the LEGO Group announced 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, and BrickLink Studio welcomes LEGO Digital Designer users. A few days ago, LEGO announced that LEGO BrickLink Studio will replace LEGO Digital Designer as the LEGO Group’s official 3D building app.

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