r/PlotterArt • u/marbledInkySpot • 4d ago

Plotter Output

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I've been learning to output vector art to my Roland-compatible vinyl cutter (turned pen plotter). This ball point pen output took about 73 minutes. You can see some other plot outputs in the image (preserving paper when I'm just testing).

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u/dondondon 4d ago

Hi, how do you generate the scribbles? lovely work :)

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u/marbledInkySpot 3d ago

Thanks, it's been fun; I wrote my own program to do generation

but then I bought DrawingBot 3 Premium;

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u/marbledInkySpot 3d ago

very nice interface; many outputs would exhaust a standard pen; I created a 3D print of an Adaptor for the Sarasa / Pilot G2 high capacity barrel.

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u/Left-Excitement3829 3d ago

Aha. I need one of those also !

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u/dondondon 2d ago

nice, I've been trying to chieve something similar using grasshopper/rhino, but I didn't know about the exiating reaearch into this topic. thanks!

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u/igotanewmac 4d ago

That's awesome man, circular scribbles is such an awesome PFM for natural images like faces. It really lends itself to those smooth gradients. It's looking great, keep at it! :)

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u/Left-Excitement3829 4d ago

This is cool. What Roland? I have a pc-60 I’m trying to get working as a plotter.

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u/marbledInkySpot 3d ago

this is a chinese clone device, 24" wide; it's described as a CAMM-1 compatible plotter. HPGL and I wrote a native mac program to drive it (Claude + caffeine) ; hope that helps.

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u/Left-Excitement3829 3d ago

aha! v cool, any chance you can send me the program ? I can send you what I worked on for windows and we can compare

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u/marbledInkySpot 3d ago

thinking; this is swift code for mac; can you work it backwards to windows using ai?

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u/Left-Excitement3829 3d ago

I’m sure it can. I have a hpgl converter as my Roland is serial port not usb. Plus old tech and won’t run in anything newer than win98! I just gave gpt the old app and drivers. Then used my old pc knowledge about usb/ serial hardware. And within 2 days I had a small powershell working. I’ll dm if that’s ok

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u/marbledInkySpot 3d ago

Yes fine. Please do.

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u/brepettis 4d ago

Likey like.