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Prepare your drawing
Prepare vector drawings for the Openbuilds Acro & Axidraw Pen plotters
- Create outlines from borders & text
Machine-specific info:
| Axidraw | Acro |
|---|---|
| the workspace origin is in the left top corner | the workspace origin is in the left bottom corner: |
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Tools to generate SVG files:
- A collection of creative tools: https://drawingbots.net/knowledge/tools
- A seamless pattern generator: https://www.kennethcachia.com/plain-pattern/
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
Axidraw API's
Axidraw comes with support to control it from other applications than Inkscape: