please reorganize VexCAD

Please reorganize the CAD models on VexCAD.

The current organization by kits makes it hard to find models. Some models are in multiple kits, others are in just a couple. The new organization of the Vex products into categories (motion, power, structure, sensors …) lends itself to a similar organization of the CAD models.

Currently, all the kits have to be downloaded, redundant parts removed, and everything has to be reorganized while downloading some parts individually. It would be much easier if a complete product category could be downloaded as a single zip file.

The next step would be to release a Vex Library for use with Autodesk Vault, but I’ll wait for improved organization of VexCAD first.

The original plan was that users could download the CAD models of kits they own and would have a “virtual kit” which matches what they have on hand. I haven’t really heard any feedback (positive or negative) about our current layout. It seems as though users are happy that we continue to provide detailed models of our products.

Thanks for your feedback, as the website evolves (you may have noticed some recent changes) we may consider changing the way VEXCAD.com works.

-John

If you download the zip files and extracted them all into one directory, allowing files to be overwritten, you should end up with a directory that includes all of the VEX parts with no duplicates. Any parts that are used in the virtual kits should all have the same filename.