Maya Lego Generator Generates Accurately Sized Lego bricks and Technic Pieces

I know you might be thinking, “not another Maya script for Lego…”. That thought does come with some foundation. There are quite a few scripts that will build out Lego pieces – Not only for Maya but other 3D applications as well.

Let’s add one more to that list with Ryan Bottriell’s Lego Generator. This script will build accurately sized Lego brick pieces and a lot more.

Generates accurately sized Lego bricks and Lego Technic pieces

The Lego Generator for Maya presents a panel that allows you to create square blocks. Here you can set the number of numbs for the bricks you create. You can also go beyond simple blocks and create flat pieces, Lego blocks with no numbs, or even with holes that can receive wheels and axles.

The panel also contains other tabs for generating rounded blocks, wheels and axels, gears, and connectors and spacers to round out your 3D Lego building experience.

The Lego Generator script is built on a 0.8 cm base grid. One tip offered by Ryan is to set the Maya grid to that size. This way you can easily build things by snapping to the grid. With the Maya grid set to the scale of the blocks, snapping to the grid will make snapping together the Lego pieces super easy.