What is a drawing machine 2022? | Pen plotter intro

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A short (and long) overview of what a Pen Plotter is, with a whole load of links. This isn't a how-to video, that's coming soon™️ but rather a general overview. The one thing I did miss from this video, is that yes, you do need to attach it to a computer, it's not a stand along things. With that said, timestamps and links...
00:02 - Short version
00:53 - Intro
01:02 - The Long Version
01:20 - History of pen plotters
03:47 - AxiDraw V3/A3
04:27 - Recent explosion in pen plotting
05:45 - Who uses a pen plotter?
06:05 - 1. People who use Illustrator
06:46 - 2. Processing and p5js = SVG
07:12 - 3. Programming with other code = SVG
07:31 - 4. Using libraries
09:01 - 5. Real time
09:35 - Pens and other pointy things
11:41 - Paper
13:00 - Wrapping up
14:40 - More resources
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ALL THE LINKS
AxiDraw/NextDraw: store.bantamtools.com/collect... 5% off with code DANCATT2024
Cricut: cricut.com
CalCom plotter: • Calcomp plotters in 1968
HP Plotter Video: • Hewlett Packard HP 755...
Joan Truckenbrod: joantruckenbrod.com
Manfred Mohr: www.emohr.com
Anna Stumpf: / experiment_now_
No coding Gen Art: www.generativehut.com/post/cr...
Processing: processing.org
P5js: p5js.org
Python Library: axidraw.com/doc/py_api
G-Code: www.google.com/search?q=g-code
TWSBI ECO: www.cultpens.com/c/q/brands/t...
Fabriano Black Black: fabriano.com/en/product/black...
experiment_now_: / experiment_now_
il_cek: / il_cek
revdancatt: / revdancatt
Line-us Sketch Bot: www.line-us.com
Hanging Plotter: • Make Workshop: The Mak...
jenslabsbuilds (Jens): / jenslabsbuilds
gandyworks (James): / gandyworks
robertbalke (Robert): / robertbalke
Bantam tools coupon DANCATT2024 for 5% off AxiDraw and NextDraw
MORE RESOURCES
search?q=%23plott...
/ penplotter
/ plotterart
/ plotterart
drawingbots.net/
www.dirtalleydesign.com/blogs...
www.generativehut.com/
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@revdancatt 2 года назад

First! How-tos and tutorials coming soon™️

@trevorjones3755 5 месяцев назад

Came for a history video, stayed for the art. Very helpful and informative!

@TinyMaths Год назад

A pen plotter (as a DIY project) is on my to-do list. Funnily enough it never even registered that they are so widely used, such as in seismographs and, well DUH!, lie detectors... So, obviouly now you've pointed it out. Completely escaped my noticed even though I've developed a bit of an obsession with drawing machines and pen plotters lately; I've obviously seen them in action, mainly in movies. I guess seeing them from now on just won't be the same. Anyway; fascinating subject.

@AndrewSink Год назад

This is a really well-done video! I love the visual description of MoveTo and LineTo. Nice work, Dan!

@revdancatt Год назад

Hey thanks! Going to be doing another video soon which is pretty much just those two things, lol!

@javeza2008 2 года назад

Dan. Love the content of your channel. Keep it coming 👍🏼

@swiftflight7927 2 года назад

It's finally begun! THE TUTORIALS!

@revdancatt 2 года назад

Going to take a few months to roll them all out, but yeah here we go!

@FanTam5320 Год назад

I have been fascinated by pen plotting art and contemplated buying a pen plotter for quite some time. However, I know nothing about programming language and have been overwhelmed by the idea of trying to learn. But today I found your video and I’m inspired to try! Thank you so much for breaking it down so simply and eloquently!

@revdancatt Год назад

Go for it! They're great fun to play with.

@hamishharrison2382 Год назад

Thanks for your information. Exactly what I was looking for!

@adrimathlener8008 Год назад

Your video was an eyeopener. Thanks for all the information and links. Lots of info to be studied.

@andrespineiroc 11 месяцев назад

What an amazing video! I love the detail, thank you!

@revdancatt 11 месяцев назад

Glad you liked it!

@jasonzil 2 года назад

a wonderful discussion of the history of the plotters!!

@revdancatt 2 года назад

Thank you. I want to go into a deep dive at some point, but I think I'd need to interview some people far more knowledgeable than me about it.

@mrbrent62 2 года назад

This is a very good video explaining uses and software. Another use is hand written wedding invitations. You can use software to randomize the font giving a more handwritten look. Addressing 250 wedding invitations is grueling by hand but is much easier using a pen plotter

@timbailey7646 2 года назад

it's the question we've been wanting answered for years!

@revdancatt 2 года назад

I was surprised there wasn't already a video, so I figured I'd stick one up to help people typing it into google 😁

@Adrischa 2 года назад

Great overview. Quite helpfull even after over a year of plotting

@revdancatt 2 года назад

Thanks, that's very kind. Gotta do "What is an SVG?", "What is a pen?", and "What is paper?" next 😆

@mauricioferreira8344 Год назад

Great video! Thanks!

@neilgooge Год назад

Well... I'm sold. I draw digitally (I'm a comic artist working for DC comics), and have done for a number years (clip studio paint mostly), and I've always wanted to find a way to sell original copies of the work without it just being a print... This just randomly popped up in my feed, and as my work is very "technical pen" looking even in digital... this is pretty much exactly what I have been looking for. As I also use a lot of line based architecture 3d models, i think this is going to be ideal. Brilliant way to round off the year... thanks for sharing.

@thaneepeters Год назад

Wow! Thank for sharing!

@bevanward8787 Год назад

Excellent thanks !!

@damircvijetic8567 Год назад

Thank you.

@AndyCPugh 2 года назад

I'm looking forward to the How-tos and the tutorials.

@LootBndt 2 года назад

great video thanks for the info!

@revdancatt 2 года назад

Glad it was helpful!

@KilledByAPixel 2 года назад

Nice video! I ordered my Axidraw a few weeks ago, excited to get it soon. Would be happy to send you something to print once i get it working with my generative art.

@revdancatt 2 года назад

That would be amazing, you're going to have so much fun with it.

@khalidf.94 Год назад

Thank you for such an amazing video!! It would be really amazing to actually see how basic code is used to make lines and geometric shapes... im in love with the art and try to learn and thinking of buying my own penplotter but im not so knowledgeable with coding...

@revdancatt Год назад

Ah, I'm going to be making some videos about that soon, hopefully they'll help. Thankfully it's not that complicated!

@flat9safety 2 года назад

WAHOO!

@revdancatt 2 года назад

Best comment, lol!

@limestone_xyz Год назад

great introduction, thanks! I‘m coming over from the 3D-printer bubble and want to get into pen plotting. Do you have experience with DIY plotter builds? Really interested in building my own :)

@revdancatt Год назад

I'm terrible at DIY, so I always use the pre-made ones 😁 If you head over to drawingbots.net/ and look in the discord there's lots of people there who build their own machines. It's getting easier all the time, and the kits are great. I think it's a fantastic and pretty satisfying project to build your own and get it to draw. I think the iDraw comes in kit form and loads of people use those.

@wesleykamiyama1911 11 месяцев назад

Nice video. Learned a lot. Two questions: Can you draw with a stylus on a tablet? And can you move the "pen" real time randomly? Like if you wanted to use it like a scratch pad? Or like remote control drawing on the tablet using a phone or computer to control the stylus real time?

@revdancatt 10 месяцев назад

1. You can draw with a stylus on a tablet, there's very little downwards pressure so it's fine to use. 2. You can move the "pen" in real time, but you'd need to code that in python. AxiDraw has a very simple python library so it'd be only a few lines of code to tell it to move around randomly, you basically use a "moveto(x,y)" line in the code. "Real time" is a function of how fast the machine can move though, it goes at a fairly steady pace, so if you told it to move to a bunch of "moveto(x,y)" locations in a couple of seconds, it'd still take time to complete those steps, so real time with a bit of lag, if that makes sense.

@wesleykamiyama1911 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for your reply! @@revdancatt

@neofytosneofytou1584 2 года назад

Great Video! Did you tried auto advanced mechanical pencils? Actually i was thinking about getting a Pen Plotter years ago and use the auto advanced mechanical pencils for my art.

@revdancatt 2 года назад

I have a couple of times, although they were surprisingly hard to find. Auto rotating yes, but advancing was trickier. It depends on the plot you're doing, I normally make plots with lots of long lines, and the pencils only advance when they're lifted off the paper. Certainly worth investigating more though.

@austindavis5659 2 года назад

I have this same machine and Im trying to design an auto feed tray. Any thoughts on what could work?

@revdancatt 2 года назад

Paper handlers for auto-feeding are kinda pricy, although I have seen some people do it with lego! You can tell the plotter how many plots you want done, and what delay to use between them, so that part is sorted. Some people us a cheap printer set to print a blank page every X minutes to feed the paper one. What you need then is something to hold the paper in place, then remove the paper. But I expect those two parts easier than the first.

@cgdennis82 2 года назад

Sadly, Stabilo Point 88 pens aren't permanent or lightfast -- they don't claim to be, anyway. Staedtler 308 coloured pigment liners do claim to be permanent, but they're more expensive and they seem to be very difficult to get hold of at the moment.

@revdancatt 2 года назад

Ah, thanks for the update. I should stick some in the window and see how they do. Can't change this video, but I'll have something in the video all about pens.

@freddupont3597 Год назад

Hello Dan, great intro video, thank you. Why are pencils a nono?

@revdancatt Год назад

Pencils take more downwards force than the pen plotter can provide, so they tend to just leave a very faint line. There's all sorts of other problems with the lead wearing down to. So you end up having to work out how to apply downward force _and_ keep the top sharp. There are ways of solving either of those problem, but doing both is tricky.

@JordanHaisley Год назад

So I have a condition called dysgraphia, essentially I can’t write by hand. I’ve considered getting a pen plotter just to be able to do some basic things. What model would you recommend?

@revdancatt Год назад

Well, I always use an AxiDraw so can only really recommend that, a small A4 model should do it. Although I'd check to see if you could pick on up second hand. And alternative which may be better is the "Cricut Explore 3" with the pen adapter, there should be a load of videos on RU-vid. They're probably skewed towards the craft end of things, but the software comes with fonts for writing _I think_!

@benc3272 Год назад

I've got a pen plotter on order. Been a graphic designer for a while and want to get into illustration. Have downloaded Inkscape. Seems that it doesn't work with MacOS13 at all. Any ideas how a non programmer can use a pen plotter from Adobe Illustrator? thx

@revdancatt 11 месяцев назад

Oh, this is the second time I've heard someone say InkScape doesn't work with OSX13. I'm still on 12.x and saying that way for a while (hopefully). Sorry I don't have an easy answer for you that isn't programmer-y. Hopefully it gets updated in the next couple of weeks, that often happens. Otherwise we'll have to start looking around for solutions. (This is also one reason why I don't use InkScape)

@Rooftopaccessorizer Год назад

maybe nobody has actually tried with graphite? I imagine you could 3d print a tube to fit a thin graphite stick inside of it and then just put a weight on top of the graphite so that it keeps even pressure throughout the plot. I actually want to use graphite to do some sketching for a project idea. I also think its possible to use one of those tech pencils that doesnt require sharpening.

@steerpike50 6 месяцев назад

Is it poss to scan writing or pics and plot

@pieterdesmijter420 Год назад

After a lot of thinking I Made an attachment for my cnc. Tried a simple design and it worked perfectly. But now I have a complicated SVG and I can not convert it to gcode. Inkscape freezes. Have you gotten any tips on how to do this ? Thanks!

@revdancatt Год назад

I've used LightBurn to convert SVGs to GCODE before: lightburnsoftware.com/ although that may not help you in this case, there's some alternatives here: all3dp.com/2/svg-to-gcode-convert-files/

@pieterdesmijter420 Год назад

@@revdancatt I think I just have a file that is too complex. Do you have any tips on how to avoid this ? Thx.

@revdancatt Год назад

You could try the linemerge/linesimplify options on vpype: github.com/abey79/vpype that could help.

@pieterdesmijter420 Год назад

@@revdancatt I wanted to let you know I found an online svg2gcode tool that works. Thanks!

@revdancatt Год назад

Oooh, that sounds good. Okay, I'm going to have to check that out, thanks for the heads up!

@florispapenhuijzen6022 2 года назад

Is the axidraw A3 as precise as the a1 version?

@revdancatt 2 года назад

Yeah, pretty much. The machines are super precise. The "Special Edition" versions are a little sturdier which allows you to run them faster without loosing precision, but either model run at "normal" speeds are good.

@florispapenhuijzen6022 2 года назад

@@revdancatt Thanks for your answer, do you know if it is possible to use a SVG file for the pen plotter?

@Rudsonlinomachado Год назад

AMAZING TUTORIAL! Thank you so much, can we draw anything?

@revdancatt Год назад

Yes you can. If it's something you could draw yourself with a pen, then you can draw it with the plotter.

@DETUDOUMPOUCO-ne6js Год назад

Hello , what version of GRBL did you use , my servo motor does not work !!

@revdancatt Год назад

This is a EBB Driver Board that control the AxiDraw, no GRBL here: shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/188

@user-ol3or3hc9y 8 месяцев назад

My cnc pen plotter is going on the wrong side. When it draws the picture, it is not in this direction, but it is moving to the left side. how to fix it? Is it a software problem?

@danielch6662 9 месяцев назад

You said it so many time. Now I want to know why not pencils.

@actuallymitch 9 месяцев назад

Probably bc the pencils will wear down with use while the pen is refilled with ink.

@revdancatt 8 месяцев назад

Pencils take a surprising amount of downwards pressure to get a good line out of, so they'll be disappointingly faint, and if you get ones soft enough to leave a mark, then as @mitchelleggers5918 says they'll wear down before your plot is finished. Auto-feeding mechanical pencils are harder to find than you'd expect. Basically there's a gulf of disappointment between what you'd want and expect and what actually happens. ALTHOUGH, you will find artists that have managed it, there's always exceptions.

@Rudsonlinomachado Год назад

Where can we get it? At a good price? Thank you

@winwinmilieudefensie7757 4 месяца назад

So its like cnc but on paper

@revdancatt 4 месяца назад

Yup pretty much exactly that, most of them you can even send GCODE too and they'll work. I've seen some people put pens into their cnc machine to turn it into a pen plotter too.

@MegaDami3n 2 года назад

Have you tried mechanical pencils ?

@revdancatt 2 года назад

Yup, it still doesn't work that great, half of the problem is needing more pressure to press the pencil down (but still allow the servo to lift it up). The other problem is the type of plot you do doesn't always allow the pencil to lift up long enough for the mechanical pencil to do it's thing.

@philgo2024 Год назад

$550 for the : 8½ × 11” / A4 Plot Area / $900 for the 11 × 17” / A3.... Make your own yourself ! ;)

@revdancatt Год назад

Yeah, I think making your own is probably the way to go for a lot of people. I just can't even screw two things together so it'd be months of frustration for me.

@exploreworldx 5 месяцев назад

Anyone knows some machine that is cheaper? The prices they have for these machines are insane,easily few hundreds of euros.....

@revdancatt 5 месяцев назад

If you search for "xy plotter" it should pull up a bunch of kits and plotters, the "LY Drawbot" is a super cheap one too, which I've seen a couple of people go with.

@exploreworldx 5 месяцев назад

I apreciate a lot!