LDD After the Closure of DbM

FYI:


Hello and Good Afternoon LEGO fans!

I received this small update in regards to the changes to LDD in the new year. It seems there is still a bit of confusion about whether or not LDD will still be available after Design byMe is closed and if so, what changes will be made. Please see the message below:

"LDD [LEGO Digital Designer] will be updated on Jan 17th, to reflect the closure of DbM [Design byMe] and LU [LEGO Universe]. Since we are not constrained by the bricks available in either the picking location for DbM and the game for LU, we can broaden the amount of bricks available. People will still have the same possibility to document and share their LEGO models; we will substitute the DbM and LU themes with 2 LDD specific themes working in the same way, just with more bricks. Since the users can no longer order the model through DbM, we will add a list of bricks in a given model to the generated HTML building guide; that way people can use the list to find the bricks they need to build the model physically."



Your help in passing along this information to your groups and communities is most appreciated!

As always please reach out if you have any questions, comments, or concerns.

Thanks for your continued help and support.



Regards,
Kevin Hinkle
North America Community Coordinator
Community Dev. Americas & Australia

The loss of DBM is sad. I ordered my set before it was too late, and am eager to see it ( it should be here really soon, it was shipped just the other day). I was, however, bummed when making it, about the very very limited colour pallet of the bricks. A bigger selection should be great for designing. I hope they alter the way the bricks are arranged in the selection boxes also, as it was a bit confusing figuring out which box a certain brick might be in.