

The BrickLink Studio software brings an integrated and excellent experience of designing, building, ordering bricks and sharing digital designs. We are focusing 100% of our 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. It is very clear that the new rendering engine from Stud.io is far superior to all other rendering engines and this alone might motivate you to adopt this software as your default LEGO digital design tool.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. Below you find the rendered images of all software packages set to their maximum quality level.

So lets compare the results of the render engines. They did not have the L-Motor in their library and hence I could not render my model there. This online software runs in your browser and you need to pay for having your image rendered on theirs server farm.

In its newest Beta version Stud.io is using a new render engine called Eyesight. This software was developed by Bricklink and it uses LDraw for its parts and PovRay for the rendering. There are several different editor and render tools available. The build in render engine is not the best, but you can use Bluerender that in turn uses PovRay for rendering your model.ĭraw is the oldest software and it is maintained by the LEGO community. This is the most comfortable editor for all platforms, but LEGO’s support for this software is in doubt. There are currently three major software packages to build digital LEGO: While these digital models can be shared it is also desirable to create a photorealistic rendering of the final model. Building LEGO digitally has many advantages, such as having an unlimited number of bricks at your disposal.
