Announcement: Free CAD for Vex

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I have been building up a set of LDRAW parts for Vex. The first bundle is now available at HobbyVex CAD (http://hobbyvex.org/CAD/index.htm) along with a preliminary version of the first robot model and instructions at HobbyVex Robots (http://hobbyvex.org/Robots/index.htm)

The HobbyVex CAD project is based completely on the FREE tools from the LDRAW.org package. Given that people are intermingling Vex and Lego, using the LDRAW tools has a singular advantage that all the Lego parts are already defined. The tools in the LDRAW.org package include a simple way to produce rough building instruction images and also a more complex way to produce professional quality building instructions.

I hope the Vex community will be interested in producing building instructions for the many robots already out there. I'm willing to help where I can; right now I'm working on getting the rest of the parts library converted over.

[swe9]

It's been quite a bit of work, but a new set of parts is now available at hobbyvex.org. There are now 77 parts in the set! The entire starter set is now covered as well as all the sensors.

Please read the CAD page on hobbyvex.org if you're updating from version 1.0. The new parts are not directly compatible with the old parts, however, there is a simple conversion process.

Is anyone posting models or instructions anywhere? Only one (a SquareBot) has been submitted back to hobbyvex.org thus far Please PM me if you know some reason nobody is posting them.