Prepare your drawing

Prepare vector drawings for the Openbuilds Acro & Axidraw Pen plotters

• Create outlines from borders & text
• Both Axidraw and Acro support closed and open lines, so single font lines are possible!

Hershey text:

• https://wiki.evilmadscientist.com/Hershey_Text
• info video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2_d8s3dgr0

Single stroke repositories

• https://gitlab.com/oskay/svg-fonts

• drawingbots.net - A collection of creative tools
• kennethcachia.com - A seamless pattern generator
• generativehut.com - Articles and tutorials about generative art
• Github - beardicus - A list of pen plotter hardware and software
• Turtletoy - Create generative drawings online using javascript

Code goes in, Art comes out - Tyler Hobbs

“A Box of Chaos: The Generative Artist's Toolkit” by Benjamin Kovach

Generative Machines with Matt DesLauriers

1. vpype - command line tool to optimize vector drawings.
2. vpype-Gcode - Plug in for vpype to generate Gcode

Axidraw comes with support to control it from other applications than Inkscape:

1. Using Processing with Axidraw
2. Python API
3. Command line API