I've been reading comments on Brickset's article about this and also on Eurobricks and it seems a lot of LDD users chose LDD over LDraw because of the brick-snapping feature that "LDraw" is missing. A lot of those people seem to only have tried MLCad and then think that that is LDraw, while it isn't at all. SR3D Builder (and LDCad lately) have had brick-snapping for years.
I don't blame them though, 99% of 'LDraw tutorials' are old and outdated and use MLCad and MLCad was so big back then that a lot of people associate LDraw with MLCad. What would it take to change people's view of LDraw? A new series of tutorials covering all the latest software? A new website that's more targeted at helping people with LDraw instead of a source of documentation and organizational information?
I'm not trying to make some kind of advertising campaing or something
But, Ive been seeing this for a while now and especially now, a lot of people seem to have the 'wrong' view of LDraw (at least, I think). That it's difficult, that it's old, that it's...
I don't blame them though, 99% of 'LDraw tutorials' are old and outdated and use MLCad and MLCad was so big back then that a lot of people associate LDraw with MLCad. What would it take to change people's view of LDraw? A new series of tutorials covering all the latest software? A new website that's more targeted at helping people with LDraw instead of a source of documentation and organizational information?
I'm not trying to make some kind of advertising campaing or something
But, Ive been seeing this for a while now and especially now, a lot of people seem to have the 'wrong' view of LDraw (at least, I think). That it's difficult, that it's old, that it's...