Hello! Here’s a new update and this one is huge. First of all, the project has been renamed: Welcome to Protobot! With this news comes the first release of the public beta! That means you can test Protobot and all of its features (for free) starting on March 1st! Did I mention that Beta 1.2 w…

Will this only be available on windows, or will it be available on other operating systems? Sounds very cool!

@squiddy_slapper Thank you! Protobot Beta will be available for downloading on Windows! There will also be an online demo for those who want to test online without saving. Hopefully in the near future, Protobot Beta will be available on Mac and Linux.

I’m looking forward to trying this out! I think it has the potential to be just as, if not more, productive than professional CAD softwares.

Not this Protobot then :rofl: [download] For these too young, this was what there was before the Clawbot.

Honestly kinda reminds me of this season’s Crunchbot. Getting back on track, I am looking forward to the beta release!

I’ve personally used VEX through Inventor as a jumping off point into designing more advanced objects and real-world things, so I’m not completely enthused about someone taking away one of the last “real-world” aspects of VEX that still remains. However, this looks cool, and I’m definitely going to…

[image] djavaisadog: This won’t have the motion simulation abilities that professional CAD has (this was stated by OP in a previous post), and it won’t have the ability to make things like custom lexan, or holes drilled through c-channels, etc. (at least as far as has been shown in the videos) a…

The export would not be able to do simulations, as constraints don’t transfer in STEP files (or any non-native files), only solid bodies. Lexan would be nice though. I don’t think it was ever cleared up by @DaveG if this will be able to export your file as a STEP (or at least a mesh if STEP is too…

@djavaisadog Thank you for saying you’d try out Protobot! I should remind you that this is a Beta version of the software and that the videos and current versions don’t represent the full version of what Protobot has to offer. Protobot will be constantly evolving over time. Keeping that in mind, fu…

Protobot (formerly known as the VEX Virtual Builder) Public Beta Coming March 1st!

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VexTeamZ March 12, 2021, 4:54pm 15

There is a public beta here:

But I don’t think you can download it yet.