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Table of Contents

Introduction ..3

Equipment and Materials ..3

Caution: Important Notes ..4

Preliminary Instructions ..5

Assembling the Outer Perimeter of the Lego Design ..6-7

Constructing the Middle of the Design ..8-9

Illustrations ..10-12

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How to Build a LEGO Form Using LEGO Digital Designer

Introduction

I intend these instructions to assist the beginning and inexperienced user. If youare a new user to the LEGO Digital Designer, please start with downloading the softwarehere: http://ldd.lego.com/ . After downloading the software, play around with the Legofeatures and build a form. Experienced users can look through the table of contents tofind specific topics.

To begin using LEGO Digital Designer, you must perform some preliminarysteps: download the software, become familiar with the software, and try building someLego forms using the different pieces. The users must be aware of the toolbars located onthe right side and left side on the main page of the software. These toolbars will teach the

user how to choose alternative pieces as well deleting unwanted pieces from the designs.

Equipment and Materials

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1. Make sure you save your design periodically as a name you will remember. If your computer malfunctions and you did not save the design, it will be erased.

2. Always use the toolbar on the bottom right side with the arrows. Use the arrowsto make sure that the Lego blocks are touching.

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Preliminary Instructions

1. Log in to the internet

2. Go to the http://ldd.lego.com/ and download the LEGO Digital Designer. Onthe right hand side of the website page, there is a blue Lego. Under the Lego,there is the text that says Download LDD. Click on the text and download thesoftware for either Windows or MAC. Following the directions to fully downloadthe program. After downloading, run the program.

3. Play with the software and become familiar with the toolbars. Use the toolbarsand learn to build a Lego structure. The toolbar positioned on the right has five

buttons. The buttons needed to construct the simple Lego structure are the firstand last button. The first button: the single selection tool and the last button: thedelete tool. The toolbar positioned on the left contains the different sizes of Legos. The first Lego icon on the first row is where you will find the pieces toconstruct the design.

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Assembling the Outer Perimeter of the Lego Design

Performance Instructions

4. Start with the first Lego icon. Scroll down with the tab on the side to the lightgreen colored Lego with 8 raised tops. Place the light green block in the middle of the grid, leaving enough room for the others.

5. Scroll down on the same Lego icon and find the other blocks which match thepicture. Find the royal blue, brown, orange, light blue, and black square blockswith 4 raised tops and place them on the left beside the light green block, aligningthem in order. (Refer to figure 1)

6. Continue to scroll down on the same Lego icon and find the black fence with2 knobs. Place the fence right beside the black 4 raised top block. Use the rightarrow key on your computer desktop to change the position of the fence so it fits.(Refer to the diagram below)

7. Continue to scroll down and find the light green Lego piece with 2 raisedtops. Place the light green piece to the right of the fence.

8. Scroll down the same Lego icon and locate the L shaped Lego pieces. Find thegrey and white L shaped Lego piece. Place the grey piece to the right of the lightgreen piece, followed by the white Lego piece beside the grey one. (Refer toFigure 2)

9. Locate the icon in the lower right hand corner. It has 4 arrows, which turns thedesign in different directions in order to make sure the Lego pieces are touching.

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10. Scroll up and find the yellow square block with 4 raised tops. Place the yellowLego piece to the right of the white L shaped piece. (Refer to the diagram below)

11. Scroll down and find the red Lego piece with 4 raised tops in a row. Place thered Lego piece to the right of yellow square block.

12. Scroll up and locate the square blocks with 4 raised tops. Place the green block and 2 off white blocks to the right of the red long Lego piece. Make sure you

place the green first, then the 2 off white blocks after.

13. Scroll down and locate the same black fence and close in the design. Place the black fence between the off white block and the light green block that you placedwhen you first began. Use the right arrow key on your computer desktop tochange the position of the fence so it fits. (Refer to Figure 3)

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Constructing the middle of the Design

1. Locate the second Lego icon on the left side of the block toolbar . The icon is along and skinny Lego piece. Click on it and scroll down. Locate the Technic Brick 1x6 in black and white. Place the black Lego piece on top of the red Lego, extendingacross the middle of the square design. Then, select the white brick and attach it ontop of the brown block across from the red Lego. Make sure that the black and white

brick are extending towards each other and constructing a 4 raised top platform to place the yellow seat that you will retrieve in the next step. (Refer to Figure 4)

2. Scroll down and locate the lever Icon and click on it. Scroll down and locatethe yellow seat. Place the yellow seat on top of the white and black bricks touching inthe middle.

3. Scroll down and find the Lego man and click on it. Scroll down further andlocate the green mini lower part of the mans body. Select the green part and placeit on top of the yellow seat. (Refer to the diagram below showing the green lower

part of the mans body)

4. Scroll up and find the upper part of the body. Locate the light blue suit andselect it. Place this piece on top of the lower part.

5. Scroll up and locate the heads of the Lego man. Locate the head with thesimple eye glasses in the left row. Place the head on top of the body.

6. Scroll down and find the red contractors helmet on the left row. Place thehelmet on top of the Lego mans head. (Refer to Figure 5)

7. You are almost finished!

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8. Finally save the design by clicking the floppy disk icon in the top left corner.

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Illustrations

Figure 1: First side of the design

Figure 2: Addition of first black fence and corner

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Figure 3: Completed Outer perimeter of the Lego design

Figure 4: Addition of black and white bricks

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Figure 5: Addition of Lego man and yellow seat

Figure 6: Complete Design

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