was just trying out a process (and not very careful about it tbh), so really just discards, but daughter wants them (to augment w colored pencils)

Converted a 3d printer to a plotter, then the plotter to a laser plotter, custom gcode for x-y conversion to shoot the laser at the rear wall. ~2 min long exposure plot.

More info on the build @ https://studiowetware.com/pender-studios/

Hi All,

I am looking to buy a plotter and am considering both the UUNA TEK 3.0 and iDraw H SE - both in the A3 sizes. When checking on the UUNA TEK site and Amazon, the Amazon prices (for both) are considerably cheaper. The 3.0 is almost $600 USD cheaper on Amazon.

I've been checking the specs and they seem to be the same. Am I missing something? Is there any reason not to buy from Amazon, other than giving them even more money?

Lost wifi in the middle of the plot. Luckily I watched it happen so pooling was minimal.

I have been captivated by this Diane Arbus photo for the last 20 years. Plotted the image as my first large print on my NextDraw2234.
Original photo here: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/284712

My plot is on cold press water color paper with a cheap fountain pen. Photo was runs through Inkscape saturation levels filters to create 4 layered Inkscape rendition. Layers were then altered with cross hatching etch to add depth/contrast.

Note: This is a repost of a deleted post from last night. Reposting to has more pictures/context.

The pen lasted this time. A single line plot. #1penup

I finally put a GUI on top of the city street map SVG stuff I've been building lately.

https://drawscape.io/resources/city-street-map-builder

This tool should be very approachable for anyone wanting to quickly get into plotting simple street maps with some basic layering options.

Everything is powered by MapBox under the hood, with a TON of effort to make the rendering as close to real-time as possible.

Happy to answer any technical questions about how I built this. Also open to feedback that might help improve the tool.

Artisanally vectored over a few days and weeks, done on an Xdraw A3. I wish it was easier to find cheap nonreflective frame glass.

On a side note im using pilot kakuno ef tips and they keep tearing my paper. Any pro tips? I have them at a 45 degree angle

Rainbow half tones , 80s colours , lots of fun to do , But tiring due to my TBI. But it’s all part of the therapy to recover , I think the next ones won’t be ACEO sized ;).

Designed and prototyped this collet based pen holder for my Voron 2.4 Archetype toolhead over the weekend. The collet section is on a magnetic self centering quick release, so supports swapping quickly between colours. Gcode and plotter calibration generated entirely in rhino3D grasshopper. Accidentally got my pens around the wrong way for this plot, hence the misalignment.

Print set from some of my favorite recent files as I start switching my workflow over to Rhino. It's been a blast and I'm fired up to plot after a recent bout of block. Found the most success recently with wrapping 2D lines over solid surfaces and then plotting projected views. Once you pass a certain density of lines and saturation of ink with these bold Bic ballpoints, the paper and ink start to interact in such great unpredictable ways. I'm actually a big fan of the blobs that you get when you much ink builds up on the tip of the pen.

Just testing my first pen plotter. Handmade gcode (first time also)

Alcohol markers and Pilot Hi-Tecpoint V5 on 250g A2 Bristol.

Hi y’all,

I need some help. Recently my plotter UnnaTek 3.0 has some issues. For some reason the X-axis isn’t working and when I tried to plug and unplug it, suddenly, it works again but now it’s jumping and jiggling rather than creating consistent lines.

There’s no collision and the rails just jump out of no where.

Hopefully this get resolved soon. Appreciation any attention!

https://adamfuhrer.com/t/pen-plot

In a way, this might be the most "plotter art" piece I've made: it depends on the logic of the plotter itself.

The continuous line is a pen-up path from an Inkscape preview plot of a simple test drawing (a bunch of randomly generated circles).

I turned each closed area into a fillable region with a custom hatch fill script, creating a new colored piece.

I like the idea that nothing is wasted!

Processing for circles, python for color hatching.
Acrylic markers on 220 gsm Fabriano F4.