The LEGO Group will focus on BrickLink Studio and pull back support for LEGO® Digital Designer.

This is a bit of a sad day.

I am a long time user of LDD, and do prefer it over Stud.io.  The interface is a lot simpler, and as I am not into making complex models, it makes it a lot easier for me to MOC up what I need.

Also, majorly, LDD has the ability to output a Bill of Material for LEGO parts.  Admittedly the database is rather out of date, but with a bit of computer work, I can make a full list of parts I require for a model, ready to be entered into the Bricks and Pieces website.  Stud.io only provides a list in Bricklink speak, which takes a *lot* more updating to make it LEGO-ready!

Is it possible for LEGO to donate LDD to the Public Domain for it to be maintained and updated by the Community?

Thanx for the info and letting LDD online till January 31, so that we may download both softwares 🙂 even if LDD is not supported anymore :-(

12 hours ago, Peter Middelkoop, LUG 4/2, New Zealand said:

Is it possible for LEGO to donate LDD to the Public Domain for it to be maintained and updated by the Community?

Hi Peter, thank you for your comment and for sharing your joy for LDD. I know that the Studio team very willing to work with LDD fans to improve their software and they've asked us to send people with  feature requests and ideas to the Studio Forum, so I hope you'll share your ideas and feedback with the team in order to improve Studio.

Regarding the code: we did look into this possibility and reviewed our options for releasing the code for non-commercial use. The following are examples of why we won’t be releasing the code, but not a complete list:   

• Part of the code may still be used by internal teams now or in the future.
• We have no resources to monitor if the code will be used commercially.

Warmly, Signe

I am bummed, but I figured this day was coming, again. Guess I better download @grab an "archival" copy of it

Make sure not to get the latest version. The previous one is much better. 

Use to use LDD to archive digital copies of my mocs several years back Also used LDD to see what parts were available. It was a beautiful piece of software for it's time and easy to use. Sad to see it go. I hope one day, there is an open source version of the code.

"Starting February 1st, visitors to LEGO.com/ldd will be redirected to BrickLink Studio."

I tried this and it didn't work. Recommend fixing your 404 with a permanent redirect 308.

When will Bricklink Studio add articulation to the platform? It would be nice to be able to test out Technic gears and pins. From my understanding, this was a feature available in LDD but was not carried over. Why is this?