The development of LDD and Lego Factory have produced an alternate brick
CAD system to the LDraw system. It is the position of the LDraw Organisation
that development of the LDraw system will continue alongside and as much as
possible work with LDD and that LDD should not be considered a replacement
for the LDraw system (including editors such as MLCad and LeoCAD, the parts
library and other associated software).
There are many reasons for the continuation of the LDraw system. These
include a wider variety of parts than LDD offers, more sophisticated
editors, a public domain format, and a wide range of associated software.
As such the continuation of the LDraw system remains the highest priority
for the LDraw Organisation in order to provide users with the choice and
tools to use the LDraw system.
Members of the Steering Committee have been in contact with members of
the LDD team to look at ways of working together and there has been
encouraging progress on this front. It is the hope of the Steering
Committee that this will add to the experiences of LDraw system users
now and in the future.
In short, the LDraw system is not going away and we hope that the
contributors (parts authors and reviewers, software developers and
the wider users community) will continue to support it with the same
enthusiasm as they have done in the past.
The LDraw Steering Committee