The parts bin

The parts bin is the top of the left-hand column. P opens it, and / goes straight to its search. Each part's name is under its picture, Plate 1×2, Brick 1×1 with Stud on 1 Side; its number is on its tooltip. Where names begin alike and run long, each goes on from the words that set it apart. While a picture is still coming, the part is drawn in its place from its size and studs, so no tile is ever a blank square.

Search

Type what you want in words: 2x4 brick, slope 45, wheel, window, a part number like 3001, or what is printed on it, with print: control panel print. The bin understands builders' words: SNOT finds bricks with side studs and brackets, cheese the small slopes, Erling the headlight brick, Travis the brick with studs on four sides, macaroni the curved corners, jumper, click hinge and cheese grater what builders mean by them. A size alone is a brick: 2x4 lists Brick 2 × 4 first. A size with a kind of part lists that kind first: 1x4 brick is bricks, 2x2 tile tiles. Every part comes from the LDraw library, and its geometry is fetched the first time it is used and kept.

Find a part from a photo

The camera in the search field takes a photo of a real part and finds it. The photo goes to Brickognize, a service that recognises parts, and the bin says so before the first one is sent.

Recent, Favourites and Techniques

Recent keeps the parts you used last. Right-click a part to keep it in Favourites. Techniques holds worked constructions from real sets, such as a row of hinged plates or a SNOT wall: a click takes one whole into hand, R turns it, and a click puts it down.

What fits

Select a part in the model, or take one in hand, and choose Fits beside Techniques: the bin lists the parts that fit it, the best fits first. A beam lists its pins, a clip its bars, a bar its clips, a hinge's base its top, a click hinge its other half, a ball its socket, and a jumper the 1 × 1 parts that sit on its stud; then the parts that sit on its studs, the ones real sets use most first. Type to narrow it: axle among a beam's fits lists the axles that go through it. Picking a part from the list keeps it on the part you asked about. Double-click a part in the list to put it on the selected part, where it fits and there is room: a pin goes into a beam's hole. Ctrl+Z takes it off.

Colours

The palette under the bin holds every colour parts are made in, and a part's own colours come first. [ and ] step through them, and Shift+C finds one by name or LDraw number. A part is drawn in its true colour, transparent and metallic finishes included.

Tick Only parts made in it beside the colour's name and the bin lists only the parts real sets have in that colour, Sand Green or any other; choose another colour and the list follows it.

Swap, list and plain parts

Double-click a part in the bin to swap what is selected for it: three red bricks become three red masonry bricks in one step, in their places and colour, and Ctrl+Z swaps them back. List, under the bin, shows a row per part with its number, its size in studs and how many colours it was made in. Clear Prints beside it and printed and stickered parts leave the bin. Only parts made in it, Prints and List stay as you left them the next time you open Brickworks.

Prints, stickers and made parts

Print… and Stickers… in the bin decorate parts, and Make a part… makes one the LEGO Group never made. See Minifigures, prints and made parts.

How the app's dialogs look

Every dialog, chooser and menu in the app has the panels' dark face, on the desktop and on the web, and every button is edged so it can be seen on its face; a question's default button is the strong blue one.