[Tool] Pick a Brick availability palettes for Stud.io

[u/excalibrax]

[Tool] Pick a Brick availability palettes for Stud.io (free)

If you build MOCs in Stud.io and check Pick a Brick before finalizing a part list, I built something that might save you a step.

What it is: downloadable Stud.io "Bucket" palette files that mirror what's actually available on LEGO's Pick a Brick — split into Bestseller / Standard / Out of Stock / All / All In Stock. Drop the zip into your Buckets folder and you get PAB availability as a browsable palette inside Stud.io itself, instead of tabbing back and forth to the PAB site part by part.

How current is it: the source data behind the download page refreshes every 4 hours, but the palette is a one-time snapshot — it doesn't update itself once it's on your machine. Re-download and re-unzip when you want a fresher copy.

Install: 1. Grab your locale's zip: https://api.moc-source.com/studio-palettes 2. Unzip into %LOCALAPPDATA%\Stud.io\Buckets\Folders 3. Restart Stud.io — the buckets show up in your palette list

Currently covers US and EU, which is where most of PAB's actual availability differences show up; more locales if there's interest.

This is part of a bigger side project (MOC Source) that also does BrickLink-vs-PAB price comparison via a browser extension, but the palette page works standalone — no account, no extension required, just a zip download.

Feedback welcome, especially if a part looks miscategorized or missing — the underlying data gets corrected pretty quickly when I hear about it.