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| openbuilds_acro:workflow_-_how_to_plot [2024/08/02 02:32] – [Turn on the Pen Plotter] formlab | openbuilds_acro:workflow_-_how_to_plot [2025/02/28 04:54] (current) – [Generate Gcode] formlab |
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| Formlab todo: Add simplify steps | <wrap hi>Formlab todo: Add simplify steps |
| * remove double lines | * remove double lines |
| * interpret fills | * interpret fills |
| * ... | * ...</wrap> |
| ==== Turn on the Pen Plotter ==== | ==== Turn on the Pen Plotter ==== |
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| * <wrap lo>Only a few short sections of tape are necessary.</wrap> | * <wrap lo>Only a few short sections of tape are necessary.</wrap> |
| * <wrap lo>Try to keep the page reasonably flat.</wrap> | * <wrap lo>Try to keep the page reasonably flat.</wrap> |
| | No tape at all might work well too. |
| </WRAP>| | </WRAP>| |
| |{{:prepare_your_drawing:workspace_origin.png|}}|<WRAP> | |{{:prepare_your_drawing:workspace_origin.png|}}|<WRAP> |
| |{{:openbuilds_acro:acro_svg2gcode_settings_02.png|}}|<WRAP> | |{{:openbuilds_acro:acro_svg2gcode_settings_02.png|}}|<WRAP> |
| * **Load the plotter settings** | * **Load the plotter settings** |
| * Download this {{ :openbuilds_acro:settings_v2.json.zip |settings-file}} and unzip it. | * Download this {{ :openbuilds_acro:settings_v2.1.json.zip |settings-file}} (v2.1) and unzip it. |
| * On the svg2gcode-website, click 'Settings', then 'Import/Export'. Select the JSON-file you just downloaded and click Save | * On the svg2gcode-website, click 'Settings', then 'Import/Export'. Select the JSON-file you just downloaded and click Save |
| </WRAP>| | </WRAP>| |
| |{{:openbuilds_acro:acro_gcode_file_01.png|}}|Select the Gcode file that was downloaded by the svg2gcode website.| | |{{:openbuilds_acro:acro_gcode_file_01.png|}}|Select the Gcode file that was downloaded by the svg2gcode website.| |
| |<wrap hi>image needed</wrap>|Click on the Gcode editor-tab and scroll all the way down and remove the line containing 'M2'. This gcode command results in a glitch that puts the pen back on the paper after the whole plot has finished. It's better that the pen stays up after plotting. No need to save the gcode file. The changes are already active.| | |<wrap hi>image needed</wrap>|Click on the Gcode editor-tab and scroll all the way down and remove the line containing 'M2'. This gcode command results in a glitch that puts the pen back on the paper after the whole plot has finished. It's better that the pen stays up after plotting. No need to save the gcode file. The changes are already active.| |
| |<wrap hi>image needed</wrap>|Click again on the '3D-view' tab and double check the dimensions on the X and Y axis. <wrap lo>Pan with CTRL pressed to pan the view around and use the scroll wheel to zoom.</wrap>| | |<wrap hi>image needed</wrap>|<WRAP> |
| | To prevent a **CRASH**: click on the '3D-view' tab and double check the dimensions on the X and Y axis. |
| | * **Pan**: right mouse button |
| | * **Zoom** scroll wheel |
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| | * **Y** axis: no higher than **1250**mm |
| | * **X** axis: no wider than **820**mm |
| | </WRAP>| |
| ==== Start the plot ==== | ==== Start the plot ==== |
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