How to build along
Put the screen where you can see it, and keep your hands for the bricks.
One step, one part
Tap the drawing or press Next, and the next part flies in and presses into place. Back takes one step back. Replay shows the last step again.
Turn it, zoom it
Drag to turn the model. Pinch, or scroll, to zoom. Reset view puts it back the way it was.
The switches
- Labels
- On: the part on its way carries a tag with its name, BrickLink number and colour. Off: the drawing stays clean; the parts under it still show all three.
- Colour
- Off: the model stays grey while you build and takes its colours at the end. On: every part shows its real colour from the start.
- Slow, Quick
- Slow: each part flies in calmly and presses into place. Quick: fast, click, click, click.
- Sound
- The click of each part going on. On or off.
Your switches are kept on this device, for every build.
Sidetracks
Now and then the model steps aside and waits, and you build a small group of parts on its own, from scratch. Then it goes onto the model in one step. The step count runs on through it.
With bricks, or without
Build it with real bricks beside you: the parts under the drawing show each part’s name, BrickLink number and colour, and how many of that kind are on. Or just step through it for the pleasure of watching it come together. Both are the right way.
Sizes, in studs
A stud is one of the round bumps on top of a brick. Trinvis gives every size in studs: across, from one stud to the next, and up by the same step, so five bricks stacked are six studs tall. Sizes are rounded to whole studs.
In a part’s name the first two numbers are its size in studs: a Plate 2 × 4 is two studs by four. Where a name has a third number, it is the part’s height in bricks, as BrickLink writes it; names stay as BrickLink writes them, so you can find the part there.
Leave and come back
Close a build with X whenever you like. This device keeps your place, and next time the build opens at Continue at step N. Start again from the beginning clears it.
Keys
- Next
- Right arrow, space or Enter
- Back
- Left arrow
- Replay
- R
On a phone the drawing is on top and Next is at the bottom, under your thumb.