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and yes i'm aware of the crosshatch plugin for inkscape, but it hasn't been ported to 1.4 yet.

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OK so i downloaded 1.3 and installed the crosshatch plugin from the plugin manager. this seems normal and expected.

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i removed that "plugin" and manually installed the axidraw extensions. why axidraw? it has a hatch plugin as well! problem: this is what it does.

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you have to turn off "connect nearby ends" because it doesn't do right angle corners for some reason, only smooth swoopy corners.

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holy crap this plotter is lightning fast

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it's an HP 7550, probably the fastest pen plotter ever made. 🤯 This is 50cm/sec. it can go to 60cm/sec with a ballpoint rather than a fiber tip pen.

vxo

@tubetime WHOA. I've never seen one that fast before - then again my only pen plotter was the tiny TRS-80 one that took like 6" wide roll paper

Brett Edmond Carlock

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Mesmerizing 😍

Gotta put some markers in my wife's CriCut and see how it does.

Tommy Thorn

@tubetime My dad is a mechanical engineer and had these huge A0 plotters at home. Fascinating machines but slow so he jumped on A3 laser printers when they became an option (late 80’es I think)

Michaela Sue

@tubetime That is *fantastic!* Also, hard to imagine them working all that reliably

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@beige_alert amazingly enough they are old-school HP levels of reliability

skab

@tubetime Yeah, great "little" machine, got one, too, which still needs a lot of TLC. One day....

But then again, 50 cm/s is rather pedestrian. I also have a DraftMaster RX (7596C), basically the last pen plotter HP made.

That one gets up to 110cm/s.

Putting a ball pen in there and see it fly is mesmerizing!

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