Gregory's ServerOK so i downloaded 1.3 and installed the crosshatch plugin from the plugin manager. this seems normal and expected.
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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. 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.   @tubetime Gotta put some markers in my wife's CriCut and see how it does.   @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)   @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! @tubetime I miss my 7550. Bought one used in high school, used it all the time. Even hacked a mechanical pencil into a pen body, and "plotted" my English class homework onto lined notebook paper using a "handwriting" font. Teacher praised my perfect handwriting. (It was very clearly written in pencil, there was "no way" that could have been printed by computer. 🤣)  |
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.