Draft:BrickLink Studio
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| Developer(s) | BrickLink under The Lego Group |
|---|---|
| Initial release | December 13, 2016 |
| Stable release | v3 2.24.9_2
/ September 26, 2024 |
| Written in | C# |
| Operating system | Windows MacOS |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Computer-aided design |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www |
Studio (initially Stud.io) is a freeware CAD software for creating virtual 3D models with Lego bricks. Its developed by BrickLink and became the official Lego design tool, replacing Lego Digital Designer.[1]
History
[edit]It was released on BrickLink as an open beta on December 13, 2016.[2] The next major update to the program, version 2.0, was released in open beta on July 18, 2018. Multiple features were added to the program, including a photorealistic rendering option, BrickLink integration for ordering parts to recreate the model physically and an instruction manual generator.
Initially, Studio for their own parts library silently used LDraw Parts Library, developed by LDraw.org Community under Creative Commons Attribution license. After LDraw.org's admin contacted with the Studio developers the info about use of LDraw has been publicly added to the website and into software.[3][4]
In 2021, it was revealed that the Eyesight, a render engine of the BrickLink Studio, is built from the Cycles render sources developed by Blender Foundation (at the time, Cycles' source has been already under Apache License, allowing it to be included into proprietary software, while Blender's source stays under GPL), but in same time BrickLink Studio proprietary binary included some GPL-licensed source from Blender too, at least parts of bf_blenlib source files,[5] that is visibe in Studio binary file via hex editor.
Later, the source of Eyesight was released on BrickLink site, as well as the modified sources of POV-Ray, FFmpeg and other sotware libs used in Studio.[4][6][7]
In January 2022, The Lego Group announced that BrickLink Studio would replace the Lego Digital Designer (LDD) software as the official virtual Lego building software going forward.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "BrickLink Studio Replacing LDD". BrickSet. 12 January 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
- ^ "BrickLink - Stud.io (Archived)". 5 January 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-01-05. Retrieved 2019-02-26.
- ^ Pobursky, Orion. "Tweet by @billtfish". Twitter.
The Stud.io has been historically bad with attribution of their sources. LDraw had to contact them directly to get them to acknowledge use in their about page and most average users still don't know that the Stud.io's library is back by LDraw
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b "Technical Notes". BrickLink Help Center. LEGO Group. Retrieved 2024-10-10.
BrickLink uses: Vignette renders created using LDraw, MLCad, L3PAdd-on and Pov-Ray
- ^ "On what version of Cycles is Bricklink Stud.io's Eyesight renderer based?". Developer Forum. 2021-02-13. Retrieved 2024-10-10.
- ^ "BrickLink Studio's Eyesight, native on Linux". slswww.free.fr. Retrieved 2024-10-10.
- ^ "Studio Download". BrickLink.
This software uses code of FFmpeg licensed under the LGPLv2.1 and its source can be downloaded here.
- ^ "BrickLink Studio Replacing LDD". BrickSet. 12 January 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
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