PlotteRXY

A machine designed to be your second plotter after an AxiDraw or vintage plotter.

Why?

I really enjoyed the flexibility of my AxiDraw, and the speed of my Roland DPX-2200. I wanted something of a halfway house, with the pen flexibility of the AxiDraw and the speed and size of the Roland.

I set myself a few design requirements; enclosed inside a frame, scalable to any size including "massive" and a solenoid for fast pen lift.

I chose CoreXY pretty much just because I thought it was cool. It probably limits the scalability a bit as I expect belt droop might be an issue for really huge plotters.

It uses an off-the-shelf FYSETC E4 controller board, which also has the benefit of being wifi enabled and has a web GUI built in.

The toolchain is fairly simple; SVG ingested in to VPYPE and it's G-code plugin. The G-code is uploaded through the web browser.

How?

The build is fairly simple, you'll need access to a 3D printer to print off the various parts. Most of the parts are symetrical, so it's a fairly simple list of parts.

Ideally, print the parts in at least PETG but ASA or ABS would probably be better. My prototype machine has had no issues with matte PLA, which is probably the most brittle filament there is.

Suggested print settings; 4 walls, 5 top and bottom layers, 40% cubic infill.

Print time on a Bambu P1S is approx 13 hours at normal speed, and can be done over two plates. It uses 350g of filament in total.

The rest of the parts you'll need are here; https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bjWigQsAcE3DGmHS4qicfL3H79G1RvEPnRx3VYNnScU/

There is a build guide in the hardware folder.

The firmware folder contains the machine configuration for use with FluidNC.

The software folder contains a configuration file for use with vpype and vpype-gcode.

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