How to create 3D models in LEGO

[Josh]

Just poking around today, and I got some progress on this…feel free ask questions…

 

1. Get DAZ 3d for free – http://www.daz3d.com/products?home_k_btn=sidekick there’s some free content as well to download
2. Get Lsculpt – http://lego.bldesign.org/LSculpt/
3. Get Ldraw – http://www.ldraw.org/downloads-2/downloads.html
4. Open a model in Daz 3d.  I chose a basic man.  This is the step where you’d create your own or find a model to use.
5. Go to file, export, and save it as a .obj file.
6. Open that file in lsculpt.  Adjust to desired settings.
7. Save it as an Ldraw file.
8. Open it in Ldraw…this is the messy and time consuming part…

Ldraw will list EVERY step in the right side.  It’s up to you to create new pages and copy and paste steps into the newly created pages to break down the instructions enough.  The big problem is that lsculpt either generates with 1×1 plates or 1×1 tiles, so you have to do interpretation anyway to use bricks or bigger plates, especially when it comes to doing a SNOT build.  there’s got to be a simpler way…

 

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[Greg Schubert]

Does this make a solid model?  I seem to recall that the guy who did the angel had created a program that not only let it be hollow but which determined where bricks should overlap in order to properly connect to bricks that were above and below it.

These photos were from Brickfest 2005 .  One photo has my Aunt Marian on an escalator at JMU.  Moments earlier, Kjeld, owner of the LEGO Company, signed her box of the original town set.   In the photo, two people down the escalator from Marian, is Kjeld himself, his hair dark and balding.  Fifty years earlier, his picture, with a head topped by thick blonde hair, was printed on that box as one of the children admiring the town set.  🙂

(So yes, these fairs DO have their moments.)

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[Josh]

lsculpt has a check box for ’empty shell’ which does not make it solid through.

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