LEGO is the company name. To prevent the term "Lego" becoming public domain, LEGO has come up with strict guidelines for it's brand. For instance, they are building blocks instead of "Lego". When a Brand Name Becomes Generic - Genericized Trademarks ~Source: Generic trademark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I am in the process of downloading the LDD, and will submit an awesome design digitally, mainly because I don't want to buy Lego for a competition that could possibly have a prize that is less rewarding than the cost of buying said Lego.
Sure! There's nothing in my short list of rules saying you can't! (This applies with any other questions anybody may have)
I love when people try to prove they have the greatest knowledge of something by arguing over pointless semantics related to the subject. Seriously quit bickering over spelling and grammar.
Spelling and grammar? Yes. Semantics? No. Semantics is the study of meaning, not a synonym for pedantry. Meaning is not in question, simply grammar and formation. But anyway, who's trying to prove they know more about Lego based on this discussion? It was a joke that's gotten out of hand. Don't read too much in to it. But yeah, I agree that it's not really a fruitful discussion, instrumental as I was in it. Apologies, pino.
That digital Lego builder thing is unnecessarily difficult to use. There's no option to simply rotate a piece of Lego, you have to get the piece you want to rotate, connect it to another piece, then use the "Hinge Tool" to spin it in the position you want, and even then it only works sometimes. The amount of pieces in the database is incredible however, as I found pieces in there I thought would have gone out of fashion long ago when I used Lego as a child. It just needs to be a little bit more user friendly, though.
It used to be really simple, but it's gotten more complex I guess. I haven't used it since a couple years back.