LEGO Digital Designer v. 2.2

A new version of LDD (LEGO Digital Designer) was released in July 2007. This new version has all the parts included in the retail 8572 set of mindstorms NXT.

MLCad models for retail models

V. Padovan has online MLCad models (.mpd files) for the four basic models - the Tribot, RoboArm, Spike and Alpha Rex. For those NXT LEGO CAD modellers out there - these are good resource for starting a modified version of your own! Download the files here.

Model Differ by MP

Matthias Paul Scholz (MP) published a new tool for LDRAW, allowing comparision of two LDRAW lego models. It also allow comparision of a model with the standard retail NXT set. Why is this good for? If you want to know if a particular model can be build with the standard set, or what extra parts do you need for this.

Download from MP’s page here.