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Cubicon single as a plotter by Hvmhvm
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Last crawled date: 4 years, 2 months ago
These pieces allow you to use your printer as a plotter. It consists of a bracket that fits on the Cubicon Single extruder, and a set of adaptors (printed in Ninjaflex flexible filament) that connect a pen to the bracket. I used it so the pen is 0.2 mm lower than the print head. The bracket also uses an M4 12mm screw and bolt to secure it to the print head.
I used Simplify3D to convert gray scale images to 3D litophanes first, and with the help of some post processing create g-code files that do the plotting.
Check out (this video) by Tech2C to get you started.
A couple of things to keep in mind:
The plotter is running without heating the extruder, so you need to unload the fillament before using it as a plotter and disable the fillament detection in the Cubicon Single configuration.
Because the Cubicon Single has an auto leveling feature that starts at the beginning you can not put the pen it at the start. A very slow y-axis movement at the start of the actual printing needs to be added to the gcode to allow you to put it in.
You need to make sure that the pen makes as little contact with the paper as possible, in order to keep it from tilting when plotting.
You need to attach the paper to the printer bed with clamps. Make sure these are not in the way during the callibration at the start!
You may need to addapt the flexible adapter to fit your own pens.
UPDATED: The bracket contains support material (between the ridges on the inside) that needs to be removed.
I added one .hvs file (gcode file for the Cubicon Single) to show the resulting gcode.
Disclaimer: use at your own risk. Do not try this unless you know what you are doing!
I used Simplify3D to convert gray scale images to 3D litophanes first, and with the help of some post processing create g-code files that do the plotting.
Check out (this video) by Tech2C to get you started.
A couple of things to keep in mind:
The plotter is running without heating the extruder, so you need to unload the fillament before using it as a plotter and disable the fillament detection in the Cubicon Single configuration.
Because the Cubicon Single has an auto leveling feature that starts at the beginning you can not put the pen it at the start. A very slow y-axis movement at the start of the actual printing needs to be added to the gcode to allow you to put it in.
You need to make sure that the pen makes as little contact with the paper as possible, in order to keep it from tilting when plotting.
You need to attach the paper to the printer bed with clamps. Make sure these are not in the way during the callibration at the start!
You may need to addapt the flexible adapter to fit your own pens.
UPDATED: The bracket contains support material (between the ridges on the inside) that needs to be removed.
I added one .hvs file (gcode file for the Cubicon Single) to show the resulting gcode.
Disclaimer: use at your own risk. Do not try this unless you know what you are doing!