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3D printer to 2D plotter

Posted by willera

willera

3D printer to 2D plotter
May 18, 2015 11:25AM

Registered: 9 years ago
Posts: 35

how easy would it be to turn this into a 2D plotter? aside from simply attaching a pen to the head, how does the gcode work, are there websites programs or anything to make it?

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madmike8

Re: 3D printer to 2D plotter
May 18, 2015 11:48AM

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You can use Inkscape to make the GCode.

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cristian

Re: 3D printer to 2D plotter
May 18, 2015 02:09PM

Registered: 10 years ago
Posts: 344

I have tried Inkscape gcode generator, I was not totally satisfied: it works well for contours, but for area filling I have not been able to get rid of some annoying artifacts.

So I prefer: SVG (or any other format supported) --> Inkscape --> DXF --> openscad --> STL --> slic3r with proper settings --> GCODE, which is much more flexible.

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djinn5150

Re: 3D printer to 2D plotter
May 21, 2015 03:10PM

Registered: 10 years ago
Posts: 178

I've been slicing imaged with cura and a special INI, works pretty well so far

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Zoomer

Re: 3D printer to 2D plotter
August 04, 2015 02:37PM

Registered: 9 years ago
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djinn5150
I've been slicing imaged with cura and a special INI, works pretty well so far

could you post the smartrap ini? i tried 2 ini files but they tend to add some weird Z axis movement before the print. i checked and it was not the Start/End Gcode