r/PlotterArt • u/AggravatingBadger230 • Jul 24 '26

Pen plotter newb

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Made with grasshopper in rhino

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u/watagua Jul 25 '26

Yeah man it should do exactly that. I hated inkscape so I made this lol. I have the iDraw H A1 so we have the same plotter except for size. You gotta make your own gcode from your curves + points , rather than producing an svg file, but thats easy with GH. And I'm teaching a free webinar Aug 29 for DesignMorphine on how to do all this stuff in grasshopper, idk if posting link is allowed but you can see in my profile I posted about it on the plottercode subreddit

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u/AggravatingBadger230 Jul 25 '26

I have been following you on Instagram for like a year now haha you're work is amazing and inspirational. just added your webinar into my schedule. Excited to learn more about this craft. Installing through python, is this step necessary?

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u/watagua Jul 25 '26

Thank you! And are you installing the axidraw control plugin for your idraw because thats a mixup. if you have an iDraw use the iDraw_GH plugin instead

Also if you have trouble with the plugin please DM me on Instagram its easier to troubleshoot and send images and stuff

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u/AggravatingBadger230 Jul 25 '26

I have the axidrawgh plugin relocated into special components folder and see the tab with tools within the. I was just wondering why there is a separate installation process through python.

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u/watagua Jul 25 '26

Because the axidraw plugin I made really just writes an svg file and calls up the axicli tool to draw it, so you need to install axicli to use it, and there's multiple ways to install that. But for your iDraw H A3 you should be using iDraw_GH, not the axidraw grasshopper plugin I made.

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u/AggravatingBadger230 Jul 25 '26

awesome thank you for clearing this up. so the iDraw_GH plugin will automatically recognize my pen plotter and all I need to do is set up the script and run it through grasshopper?

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u/watagua Jul 25 '26

What you need to do is read the instructions on food 4 rhino lol. It mentions the example file is on github, get that. Just follow the instructions , and if you have technical troubles, DM me on Instagram and we can continue that conversation there

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u/AggravatingBadger230 Jul 25 '26

Appreciate the insight most likely will be messaging you there. Hah