Questions tagged [design]
Questions about the skillful and artistic planning of LEGO structures.
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Why stickers instead of printed decoration and vice versa?
I was recently just wondering why LEGO™ would use stickers in some cases and printed decoration in others. I understand it wouldn't be reasonable to put stickers on say, a 1-by-3 brick, but sometimes ...
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Ridable Winged Horse
Is there a horse that a minifigure can ride and you can still put wings on? I've looked at several sets and they all have pieces in the 'saddle' section to hold the wings.
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2x2 macaroni pieces
I don't own any of the brick, round corner 2 x 2 macaroni pieces. If you make a circle with them, can you fit a 2x2 round snugly within that circle?
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Arranging claws radially and horizontally
I would like to arrange 3 claws in a horizontal circle (parallel to the ground ), pointing outward from the circle with roughly equal radial distance (120 degrees) between them. Any ideas on how I ...
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Combine Duplo feet with regular LEGO
I would like to place this Duplo pig directly on Lego bricks/pieces. I tried an intermediate Duplo 2x4 plate with Lego bricks underneath, but it doesn't look good. The problem is that Duplo feet ...
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Flame Emblem and Cape
I'd like to build a minifig with this flame emblem on the chest.
Typically, this is done with an armor piece such as this. However, I also want to give the figure a cape, and I'm not sure if that will ...
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How to make a church bell
I'm planning a scene that includes a church bell. It's will need to fit into roughly 10X10X6 space. It doesn't need to actually make any sound but the ability to swing a bit would be nice.
Here's the ...
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2x2x2 cube with smooth plate on bottom?
I have a follow-up to my previous question about building a 6x6x6 smooth-sided cube.
Do these three pieces create a 2x2x2 cube, smooth on top and bottom, and all four sides, with the height exactly ...
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6x6x6 cube with smooth plates on bottom?
Adult, returning to Legoland and the world of LEGO.
I'm interested in building a static 6x6x6 cube that is smooth on all six sides. I can see how to get the top smooth, using an appropriate build up ...
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I want to hang a skull on my wall
I want to hang a few of the Rock Skull with Pins on my wall. What parts do I need to connect the pins?
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Do the minifigure utensil cups stack like 1x1 bricks?
Do Minifigure Utensil Cups stack on top of eachother?
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Ferris wheel bars
I am trying to build the High Roller ferris wheel at the Linq in Las Vegas. I want to sink a bar through two 2x2 domes. Can I do that with two of these parts? Is there a way to sink a single bar ...
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Placing a rock piece at a 45 degree angle
I'd like to place this rock at a 45 degree angle to the ground. What's the simplest way to do that?
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Clip a wall to a 6 or 7L pole
I'm planning on making a wall 6 bricks tall. The wall will have some vertical clips coming out to clip to a vertical pole. Unfortunately, the only 6 or 7 length bars appear to have the little stopper ...
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Identify pieces for this Griffin
I'd like to make just the top part of this griffin
Can you help me identify the eye, ears, beak and that weird curvy white part on top? I think I can find the rest.
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Booty Bay from World of Warcraft [closed]
I would like to build a replica of Booty Bay from World of Warcraft.
Here's some screenshots:
To make the ramps angled correctly, I'm planning on using something like part # 44570:
Can you help me ...
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How does one identify the designers of a LEGO set?
I'm looking for tips to identify the Lego Designers that have worked on a given particular released recent set.
Ideally, I would like to find an online resource that has this information for as much ...
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How to motorize a LEGO Pneumatic valve?
I am working on a project that requires remotely switched LEGO valves, and I tried many designs I found, and none of them worked due to the valve causing too much resistance. Does anyone have a ...
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LEGO Technic #42082 - Rough Terrain Crane: Loose Feet
LEGO Technic crane set #42082. Putting the feet on now, are they supposed to click in somehow? Also, my feet don’t seem to touch the ground. I’m worried I messed up somewhere a long time ago. Help ...
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How to eliminate a gap of an offset in a corner
So I need to build a layer with offset bricks, which I have managed to figure out. However, the corner is a problem. The dark bricks in my pic need to be in that position. How do I fill the gap ...
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What are some LEGO Christmas trees designs I can build?
It's Christmas time, and I'd like to build a Christmas tree to add to my winter scenes. Unfortunately the large LEGO pine tree is a little small, and also doesn't offer much by way of decorating ...
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How To Make a Small Security Camera?
I’m looking to make a wall mounted security camera in LDD to mimic this one:
https://icdn5.digitaltrends.com/image/digitaltrends/swann-4k-9f-768x479-c.jpg
Any clever ideas? It needs to be angled down ...
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Why does LEGO avoid 2x4 plates on these occasions?
As this year's LEGO city advent calendar gradually gets opened, I have repeatedly been astonished by the choice of parts: At least twice so far (in the oven and in the catapult target), two 2x2 plates ...
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Double linear actuator boom movement
The following Technic sets
8043 (Motorized excavator)
42009 (Mobile crane)
42082 (Rough terrain crane)
42110 (Liebherr)
and likely a couple of more have a double set of linear actuators to move ...
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What is the wall thickness of a lego brick? [duplicate]
Different sources show different thickness for the wall. I've seen everywhere from 1.0mm to 1.8mm. I need to know with a high degree of confidence since I'm making an aluminium lego piece of a school ...
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EV3-specific bricks missing from Lego Digital Designer 4.3.11 (Win)?
I have LDD on my Mac and have used it to create EV3 models (like an FLL robot, or a Lego dot-matrix printer). Recently, I purchased a cheap Windows laptop for use by a FLL team.
After twice ...
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2:1 gear ratio in stud-less Lego Technic
Is there a recognised technique to create a 2:1 gear ratio in stud-less Lego Technic?
Neither of the two methods suggested here (studded though) work.
24T/12T with a 2L x 1L axle offset does rotate, ...
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How to prevent PF M-motor from springing back
I'm currently building a car with a simple 2-speed remote controlled synchronized transmission, shifted by a PF M-motor. Everything is fine except for one thing, the transmission driving ring is ...
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How to make an object glow in Studio (BrickLink)
Is there a way to add glow colors to objects or parts in the BrickLink's Studio?
The thing I am trying to do is to make a glowing light bulb so I can have it as a light source in enclosed areas (Like ...
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How is this kind of structure made?
Recently I found a MOC made by Headzsets from Instagram, in particular this interesting structure from his EVA work. Here is a picture of his structure:
(https://www.instagram.com/p/BtCymDRHJx6/)
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Technic beam centering for beam with even length
I design stereo camera housing for robotics (3d printing). I want the housing to be able to connect to both LEGO Classic and LEGO Technic blocks. I designed 2 groups of 4x4 holes/pins on the bottom/...
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How do you make a custom Lego piece/figure?
I have googled this countless times and there just isn't anything close to what I want.
I want to be able to print and design pieces: minifigure accessories, minifigure designs, pretty much make my ...
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Is there a way to convert stud.io files into LDD files?
Is there a way to download stud.io files from Bricklink and convert them into a format that Lego Digital Designer understands?
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Is it possible to build 3 or more concentric circles / nested circles / telescoping pieces?
There are round 2x2 pieces.
There are round 4x4 pieces with round 2x2 holes, the 2x2 can slide/rotate inside of it.
There are "macaroni" pieces to make an 8x8 circle with a 6x6 hole.
But are there no ...
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Arduino-izing LEGO Technic - ideas for a car / vehicle to choose
I am starting a project - Arduino-izing LEGO Technic - and now I need some ideas for a car / vehicle to choose.
This project starts out as a quest to find a way to combine the ease of LEGO Technic ...
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Looking for sets to use as components of a 1930s - 1940s European city
I'm planning to build a 1930s / 1940s European city (like Paris, London, Prague, ...).
As buildings, I'm currently going for modulars that could pass for pre-1950 European buildings, possibly with ...
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What can I do with all my brick separators? [duplicate]
Since LEGO has started adding a brick separator to each of their larger sets, I have more brick separators than I know what to do with.
Due to inflation, they also aren't really worth anything to try ...
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What are some good purist rotacaster / omni wheel designs?
In robotics, rotacasters or omni wheels are often very useful.
It's possible to buy LEGO-compatible ones from some third parties, here's one random example:
Unfortunately, LEGO has yet to make any ...
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Why do some LEGO City vehicles have tiles in their chassis?
While building 60150 Pizza Van, I noticed that the first few steps of building the eponymous vehicle have you place lime green 1x2 tiles in specific positions and black 1x2 plates in others:
These ...
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Is there a rock wall generator?
In Lego store, and on many photos on the Internet, I've seen vertical "rocky" walls made of slopes and simple 2x1 bricks. For example this one.
Is there a software that would take wall length and ...
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Is there any reason behind fancy bricks in invisible places?
In set 60080 there is a blue bick with pretty fancy shape. There are also hardly visible bricks in other places. Is there any reason? Why are these bricks used? Any official or semi-official ...
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Build Instructions for Brown Fedora Hat at LEGOLAND Florida Resort Hotel
When visiting LEGOLAND Florida, I fell in love with this brown Fedora hat that was in the bathroom of our suite at the resort.
I am not familiar with the custom LEGO building community and don't ...
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How does LEGO decide the color of internal set pieces? [duplicate]
While building many LEGO sets I have noticed that for internal pieces you cannot see when the set is finished; LEGO often chooses mis-matching colors. For instance in the (amazing) Saturn 5 set most ...
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Hello, LEGO. I have one question [duplicate]
LEGO group, thanks, to read this
My question:
How get work in LEGO?
What i have to do now, to get work in future?
I'm 13 years old.
My MOC(i have too many good works, but i can send only one ...
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Advice on where to start
I've seen this (http://petapixel.com/2013/04/12/check-out-this-lego-slr-and-its-lego-camera-strap-and-lego-strobe/) and really want to build it but cannot find instructions anywhere.
I can see the ...
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Help me plan and acquire pieces for my Star Wars MOC?
I wish to build a large LEGO Star Wars MOC. The basic idea I had was a well-fortified Droid factory, protected by a combination of droids, Sith, bounty hunters and Manalorians. And on the other side ...
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Good "freeware" mosaic creator
I need to know of a decent "freeware" program that can take an image and turn it into a full color mosaic. It also needs to have a part count/listing.
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How can I emulate this wheel from the mowing unit of a ride-on mower?
I am trying to build a model of a specific ride-on mower with Lego and I cannot find a satisfying solution for the wheels supporting the mowing unit.
This is what they look like on the original:
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Challenge: Specialized Palm Build
I'm trying to design a hand for a MOC using the (not so) new Mixels ball joints, in line with a concept that I've had rattling around in my head for a while. The current palm design I'm trying uses ...
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Chicago Blackhawks logo Lego building instructions
Can anyone make some building instructions for the Chicago Blackhawks logo that's made out of LEGO bricks? I'm trying to find so I can build it for my sick brother.