<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — Pen plotter]]>2012-08-09T09:03:52ZPunBBhttps://www.soliforum.com/topic/19/pen-plotter/<![CDATA[Re: Pen plotter]]>I used corel draw's "trace" feature to change images into vectors and mastercam to make the tool paths / g-code a while back.
]]>https://www.soliforum.com/user/4/2012-08-09T09:03:52Zhttps://www.soliforum.com/post/175/#p175<![CDATA[Re: Pen plotter]]>Wasn't aware of that one. Looks great. I've seen plug ins that convert pictures into "etched" drawings on a 3D print surface. Maybe some variation on this would help?]]>https://www.soliforum.com/user/7/2012-08-08T18:57:59Zhttps://www.soliforum.com/post/116/#p116<![CDATA[Re: Pen plotter]]>I like to use http://inkscape.org/ ... Quite a few useful tools in there.]]>https://www.soliforum.com/user/13/2012-08-08T18:28:10Zhttps://www.soliforum.com/post/108/#p108<![CDATA[Re: Pen plotter]]>You can move the stage down instead of the pen up. When I started moving the gauge around I had the same idea about the pen. I'm sure there is some kind of svg to gcode converter out there. I know there is something that will convert a picture to a drawing that uses a single continuous line.]]>https://www.soliforum.com/user/14/2012-08-08T03:28:42Zhttps://www.soliforum.com/post/64/#p64<![CDATA[Re: Pen plotter]]>Hmmm....
You will probably need to modify it so that there's something that can raise and lower the sharpie, unless you wanted to use one continuos line, which would be simpler.
]]>https://www.soliforum.com/user/2/2012-08-08T00:44:55Zhttps://www.soliforum.com/post/52/#p52<![CDATA[Pen plotter]]>It seems like it would be easy to print a sharpie holder (or just use Ian's dial gauge mount with a big enough pen), but any cad users in here know what the workflow would be to take an illustrator file and print it in 2D?]]>https://www.soliforum.com/user/18/2012-08-08T00:09:08Zhttps://www.soliforum.com/post/49/#p49
