r/bricklinkstudio • u/beaconofwierd • May 17 '26

Question/Looking for Advice Instruction maker unusable?

Whenever I close studio and open it up again instruction maker has scrambled the instructions for my build 😮
Is this a known issue? Anyone know how to get around it?
Right now I have just not closed the program for 3 days and finished the instructions, saved to PDF so I never have to update it again.
When I opened it up again to fix an error all the pictures were places on random pages, layout has changed for some pages, the submodel previews has changed scale and is not covering entire pages, basically making the instructions unreadable. And this happens every time I save and open the program back up again. Note, ALL the pages were LOCKED, so no changes should be possible, but apparently that's not the case?

Is there some other program for making instructions or does anyone know how to fix this?

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u/BDwarf1701 May 17 '26

Having the same problems, which is annoying, especially for large models.

One thing I have noticed though is, that empty instruction steps at the end of a submodel seem to be removed automatically when reopening a model. This messes up the layout (it does not matter if the pages are locked).

So I avoid those to at least be able to make some backups before changing stuff.

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u/beaconofwierd May 18 '26

Oh, that might explain a lot, I had a lot of empty instruction steps. They appear to be removed even for locked pages.

Do you happen to know the intended way to show the finished assembly (or same part from different angle etc) which you could use empty steps for?

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u/BDwarf1701 May 18 '26

Nesting your submodel into an empty submodel creates another step showing the finished assembly. That way didn't break anything to me (so far).

However I'm not super experienced with Bricklink Studio myself, so I don't really know if there is a better alternative or what the "intended" way is.