When designing for manufacture and assembly, the designer must find the best way to meet the client’s requirements by considering the most efficient way to manufacture elements of the building and the most efficient way to assemble them on site.
Since the last patent underlying the brick design expired in 1978 there are numerous legitimate systems such as Megaconstrux and Kre-O which are dimensionally identical to, and therefore compatible with, Lego bricks.. For the purposes of this article, however, I am even more interested in a company called Brick Link.It was set up in 2000, initially called BrickBay, as a marketplace to allow fans of Lego to buy and sell vintage Lego sets and retired pieces.
It has since grown into the world’s largest community of Lego fans, where people can also share ideas and designs.It was acquired by the Lego Group in 2019..Brick Link is now an extensive marketplace hosting over 10,000 vendors in 70 countries.
Users can search for pieces or sets then select vendors based on region, rating, price etc..While Lego have their own ‘Digital Designer’ configurator, Brick Link developed ‘.
Brick Link Studio.
’, a free configurator that allows users to generate their own designs from a database of every piece of Lego ever manufactured..The world is getting smaller than it ever was before, she says, and it’s creating greater opportunity.
She points out that 10-15 years ago she wouldn’t have been able to get in the room with the kinds of big companies she’s meeting with now.These days they’re coming to her for help and she’s passionately excited about the change happening right before her eyes.. “What we have to recognise,” she says, “is we're counting on each other, and we have to make sure that we're all doing the right things because it’s so connected.”.
She reminds us that.facilitating a. successful.
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