We have old LEGO® instructions available online that date back to 1958. You can search for replacement instructions by set number or keywords.Show the world what you have made! Submit your cool kid creation today using your smartphone or tablet.. We currently have over 1,500 building instructions available online which date back to 1958. You can search for replacement instructions by set number, keyword or theme name. Did you lose your LEGO® instructions from ages ago? Or maybe you just want to walk down memory lane? Let's Build it again! We have Old LEGO® instructions going all the way back to 1958, and we currently have 1,587 different LEGO® set instructions. View LEGO® Instruction Books Hi, I really want to thank you for this great site. My son just got old enough to use my 27 year old lego stuff, and it's great to find those old instructions here. Keep up the good work! Super Flying Jet CarName: Roy W Age: 7 View Kid Creations Set number: 7815 Title: Club Wagon View Club Wagon
Welcome to the Onshape forum! Ask questions and join in the discussions about everything Onshape, CAD, maker project and design.Here are some places to start:Looking for a certain topic? Check out the categories filter or use Search (upper right).Ask a question to our Community Support category.Please submit support tickets for bugs but you can request improvements in the Product Feedback category.Be respectful, on topic and if you see a problem, Flag it.If you would like to contact our Community Manager personally, feel free to send a private message or an email. How to build a Lego model in onshape? When using standard pieces like lego, you can work with same procedure as you would in sw. Parts are in one doc and you can create assemblies to another to keep things clear.First you need to create version into parts doc, then it's available for other docs to link in. Biggest difference will be mating, Onshape uses mateconnectors that will probably be very nice for legos. You only need one mate per part.
/help/#mate-fastened.htm and crawl through other mates too./help/#replicate.htm ) to add lego parts with single mouse click.Please post some screenshots when you get things done in Onshape. Thanks for the pointers 3dcad. I'm probably about halfway ish through drawing the parts but I did a little of the assembly last night. Can I make the parts come up with their name on the left? They are all called part 1 with no way that I can see to rename. Also I've had to fix each part in place after mating as sometimes the one I want to move would stay still & the part mated to the assy would spin instead but this then makes my mates go red - is this ok? You will fix your base part and then any additional parts that you fasten to it will be fixed in place as well. If you fix and mate a part you will get the mate error (a message should appear when you hover over the red name).To change the part name you can jump back to the document where the standard lego pieces are located and change their names there.
Hi Lee, looks like your getting the hang of the mates in Onshape, takes a bit of learning but once you get it, there is no turning back. It's a bit of a pain that your import loss it's part names, I think this happens when you bring them in as native SW's files. If you can get access to SW's and can export as a Step or Parasolid file you will get the parts named as your original file names. The best way if possible would be to get all your bricks in one SolidWorks assembly, export as a step file, then import that into Onshape with a flatten to part studio option. Have you seen the FeatureScript for bricks? Engineer ı Product Designer ı Onshape Consulting PartnerTwitter: @onshapetricks & @babart1977 0 Sign In or Register to comment.Hot Topics: How to Fix Bluetooth Problems | The Best Coffee Grinder | Best Fitness Trackers Under $50 | Complete Guide to Facebook Privacy Build Virtual LEGO Models Online Google and LEGO have teamed up to create a free building block simulator app playable for free from the Chrome web browser.
Google unveiled the project today on its official blog. “We think the creative freedom of LEGO bricks shouldn’t be limited to plastic bins—which is the idea behind Build with Chrome, a collaboration between Chrome and the LEGO Group that brought these colorful bricks to the web using WebGL, a 3D graphics technology.” The Build app is easy and intuitive to use. You choose the type of block you want to use, its color and how it should be oriented. Blocks can be stacked on top of each other in any configuration real-world LEGO physics will allow. There are also special pieces like doors and windows – all in LEGO style, of course – to complete your structure. You can sign in with Google+ to save and share your creations and to view other peoples' works of blocky art. I'm a huge fan of the building blocks and the LEGO video game series, so it should come as no surprise that Build is something I had a blast playing around with. You get a lot of the basic fun and creativity of LEGOs all in this one free, simple web game.
Best of all, in this version, there are no tiny plastic pieces to step on in the middle of the night. It's great fun for the whole family – just be careful with Google+ and your privacy. using the Google Chrome browser. Leave a Comment HereClick here to see our updated list for 2017 We include in our list of Legos for adults the most complicated Lego sets, along with classy sets that will give you a nice desk piece when complete. ArchitectureTechnic1000+ Pieces2000+ PiecesUnder $100Under $200 9SEE IT NOW 1SEE IT NOW 2SEE IT NOW Price, Info, & Pics Price, Info, & PicsIf you spend any time at all with Lego, then the sight above is probably a familiar one: a giant bin full of assorted Lego bricks and parts. As a kid, this was about the pinnacle of my organizational skills (hey, they’re in a box, right?) but I’m sure that in aggregate I wasted several years of my life pawing through boxes like this trying to find the next piece that I needed. Twenty years later I have Lego again, but much less tolerance for digging through piles.
So how can we make things better? In this article we show off some of the tricks that we use to keep our stacks organized, so that we can spend our Lego time building efficiently, not looking for bricks. (Warning: article is image heavy!) So what’s the big idea? We need to be able to locate bricks of a given type easily. We need to be able to tell at a glance which colors, kinds, and quantities we have, and be able to separate them easily. One obvious but not particularly good solution is to get a big set of drawers to store the bricks in. The chief problem with this is one of scalability: For a big collection, you need an awful lot of drawers, particularly for common large bricks. Secondly, the drawers are not fully mostly opaque, and you can spend a lot of time pulling out one drawer after another looking for what you need, even if they are well labeled. Larger drawers also suffer from the usual “pile” problem: Even in a medium-sized bin of sorted parts, it can be hard to tell how many are there in each color.
You could also consider sorting bricks into plastic bags, but this doesn’t really solve the fundamental organizational issue, because you’ve still got to find a way to file and display the plastic bags. A solution that we like better is to simply stack bricks of like kind together, forming large neat structures that are easy to pick out of a large bin. However this has to be executed with some care. Consider the following picture: What we have here is a compact and space efficient stack: two 2×2 flat plates stuck together. However, it’s an abomination: those pieces are really stuck together. Even the godsend brick separator is all but useless in this particular case and there is hardly any non-destructive way to get the damn bricks apart. (A plastic putty knife or thin guitar pick can work, with effort.) That naturally leads to our requirement that stacks be easy to separate. If not, you could end up spending all your time trying to get the bricks apart, which isn’t much of an improvement versus digging for them.
In what follows, we illustrate some of the basic types of large organized stacks that hold together firmly, give easy access, and can always be separated easily. First off, here is a much better way to stack and store 2×2 flat plates. Each layer alternates a single flat plate with two flat plates side by side. You can make a long stick like this and it is very robust– if you place it in the bin with other big stacks it will come out in one piece. Yet, it is trivially easy to break it apart anywhere you want to– even if you need to get to that one green square in the middle of the stack. You can of course use the same stacking method with 2×2 round plates, although it ends up looking quite different and does not hold together quite as well. Recommended solutions: (1) Store these in a bin for small parts, unless you use them a lot or (2) follow the method for stacking 2×2 thick bricks shown later, rather than the method for 2×2 flat plates. There are, of course, some small parts that really are better off not built into stacks.
We organize our small Technic pieces in this divided fishing tackle box with a locking lid. Note that as opposed to the set-of-drawers method, this lets you see– and access– everything at once. We also keep a separate box for similarly small non-technic pieces. Speaking of small parts, these are our smallest parts that can be stacked. These 1×1 flat plates form neat columns that we store in the non-technic small parts bin. There’s no trick to this, so why bother? It turns out to be useful because you can see what you’ve got at a glance– much more easily than with a drawer full of mixed pieces. (Do I have three blue round one-by-one plates?) Also, the columns are much easier to work with. With my much-larger-than-kid-size fingers, it usually takes a couple tries to reach into a tiny bin and pick out (for example) a transparent red round piece rather than a green one. Working with the stacks instead, you can just pull out the column that you want and pick off the pieces that you need.
Here’s an interesting method that works well for storing 1×1 full-height bricks. Sandwich even-height columns of them between two large flat plates. When you need a 1×1 piece, peel off the top plate for fast and easy access. When it’s time to store them back in the bin, put the top plate back on. While the individual 1×1 columns have almost no strength, the whole assembly with top and bottom plates installed, is remarkably robust. Build your own great wall. 2×2 full-height bricks are easy to deal with– these stacks are sturdy and always easy to disassemble. 1×4 bricks separate easily, so you can just make square stacks of them with rows of bricks in alternating directions.Note that it can be helpful to store printed bricks on the outside of a stack with the image facing out so that you can find (or avoid) them easily. 2×4 bricks are absurdly easy to work with. Added bonus: can be stacked very tall and might make nice columns for that giant-scale Lego castle you’re building.
For 2×3 full height bricks, build a tower with a 1×1 hole in the middle. Alternate the two possible configurations on successive layers. Like the 2×2 flat plates, the 2×4 flat plates can be difficult to separate if you don’t stack them carefully. Here, we’re alternating two repeating layers to create a strong but easily separable structure. Painfully simple: A stack of 2×6 flat plates. The same basic method is used for 2×8 and 2×10 flat plates. Be sure to leave (at least) a 2×2 hole in the middle, which helps to keep them easy to separate. One Borg Cube’s worth of 1×8 full height bricks. These are fairly easy to separate out, but youngsters may want to emulate the method of the 1×8 flat plates (below) for something that’s less space-efficient but easier to separate.While this particular arrangement is very space-efficient, it isn’t so easy to take apart– keep a brick separator handy if you use this configuration. While you can stack these in some other ways (e.g., the great wall configuration), they are still hard to take apart.
Often, a better bet is to keep them in a small parts bin. The 1×2 full height bricks pose a bit of a challenge, it takes a little bit of thought to construct them into a larger shape that has sufficient rigidity for normal handling. The first three pictures illustrate the method: build alternating layers of 1×2 bricks as shown. The end result is actually solid enough to pick up and store in the bins with the other big stacks. Assorted large flat pieces can be stored together by stacking them, each offset by at least one unit. Depending on how many you have, it may be better to create a few separate stacks. Stacking 2×3 flat plates. These plates are a funny size– too small to treat like normal bricks but too large to file with the tiny parts. Stacking them into one big ingot of identical parts helps a lot in that respect.This one may actually be a little bit on the dense side, it can take a brick separator for kids to break these off. Youngsters may want to emulate the 2×6 flat brick stacking method instead.