LEGO Digital Designer Introduction and Tutorial

UPDATED TUTORIAL: youtu.be/Fsd6k0CVDB4
UPDATED INFO: LEGO Digital Designer is no longer available from that website. The software has been completely discontinued from their servers and the page redirects to the Bricklink Studio download page, which is owned by LEGO.

Have you heard of LEGO Digital Designer (LDD)? It is a program free to download for building with virtual LEGO bricks. In this video Nathan introduces the interface and then builds a small car to walk through the main features of the program.

Stud.io is a more powerful digital builder, watch Nathan's Introduction here: youtu.be/No34NxVSRsQ

0:00 What is LDD?
3:22 Building a small car
4:36 Using Delete and Clone functions
8:23 Using the piece count function
10:53 Using the Hide function
12:57 SNOT techniques
18:39 Submodel assembly
28:53 Save lxf file
29:58 View Mode and screenshots
32:01 Building Instruction feature

[Downloading LDD is pretty easy to do, download the program from this link: lego.com/en-us/ldd ]
UPDATED February 2022: The link now redirects to the Studio download, LDD is no longer available from TLG.

Music in this video:
"I Don't See the Branches, I See the Leaves" at 21 seconds
I Don't See the Branches, I See the Leaves by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: chriszabriskie.com/dtv/
Artist: chriszabriskie.com/

"The Life and Death of a Certain K. Zabriskie, Patriarch" at 10 minutes 26 seconds
The Life and Death of a Certain K. Zabriskie, Patriarch by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: chriszabriskie.com/vendaface/
Artist: chriszabriskie.com/

"The Boy Got Skills" at 25 minutes, 21 seconds
by Max McFerren

All three used with permission from YouTube Audio Library

LDD is offered on an "as is" basis, I do not own this software and do not intend to infringe against TLG by demonstrating this software for personal use.