Bricksmith is a tool that helps you create virtual models of your Lego creations

Bricksmith is a tool that helps you create virtual models of your Lego creations and enjoy them in all three dimensions. It is an excellent tool for creating instructions of your Lego building projects.

Bricksmith provides model-making tools for creating steps and submodels and also offers acces to thousands of parts and dozens of colors. You'll never run out of bricks with Bricksmith.

The program is based on LDraw, a fan effort to create 3D models of Lego bricks. Converters are available which enable you to feed your creations into a raytracer to produce beautiful 3D renderings.

Here are some key features of "Bricksmith":

￭ a fast, comprehensive part browser
￭ a full Lego color palette at your disposal
￭ undo, cut, copy, and paste
￭ support for steps and submodels
￭ drag-and-drop reordering of file contents
￭ leaves your teeth sparkling-white and gives your breath a fresh, minty flavor!


NOTE: Bricksmith is licensed and distributed under the terms of the BSD License.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Mouse-based part movement
· Drag-and-drop from the Part Browser
· Global color list is read from ldconfig.ldr
· Anti-aliased drawing (much prettier)
· Lines are drawn with a complimentary color to the main part
· Hotkeys for viewing angles
· Simplified some keyboard shortcuts
· Added help pages for secret key shortcuts and unofficial parts
· Eliminated drawing problems resulting in unilluminated polygons (ex. flowers.dat)
· Fixed split-view state restoration under Leopard