[juliangamble]

The author spends lots of time modelling axial tilt to represent the seasons.

Then there was this gem:

> I also used this program to create digital building instructions. My takeaway from this is that it works really well for small models, but it has serious usability problems on larger models. When you make changes to the model or change an early step in the instructions, it will often break the layout of the instructions in many places so that most of it needs to be redone. This was a lot of tedious work, but I ended up with a 264 page, 436 step instructions PDF.

Wow.

[dclowd9901]

That actually doesn’t seem that bad for a model this complex. The larger sets can have well into the hundreds of steps with manuals reaching into several hundred pages on 8x10 paper.

[iwontberude]

I used a Lego product this past week and the instructions were actually omitting 1-2 steps explicitly and expecting you to see the difference between the current and previous figures in the print.

[pimlottc]

In the old days, "spot the difference" was the standard practice in Lego instructions [0]

0: https://www.toysperiod.com/download.php?file=h4d4k5w544a4h4n...

[dumbo-octopus]

As it should be. I credit LEGO for my acing the ASVAB spatial reasoning sections.