Drawing with pencil/marker with ultimaker ?

[dinac 0]

Is it possible to draw some picture on paper with ultimaker ?

simply to put marker or pencil beside hotend ...

I am guessing, It needs to be 1 layer STL with picture or somehow ?

Or is there any software to export jpg picture to 1 layer STL ? or similar ?

 

[rob 0]

On my MakerBot Thing-O-Matic I used a Inkscape plugin which converts a vector path to Gcode. I'm not sure how suitible the Gcode is for an ultimaker though as the tool was designed for the MakerBot. http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5986

Edit: This thing might be more useful: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7071 It's got a link to a modified version that replaces the servos pen-up and pen-down commands with z-axis movements instead.

 

[edis 0]

This could be great idea. e.g. we attach a oil marker to our printer, then we place a blank pcb and the printer marks pcb tracks. Then by etching the board we get really nice pcb.

I've spend some time researching this issue, but it seems that it's a real pain in converting pcb to gcode and i couldn't get it to work. If you need only to draw few lines, you can make model for it and slice it like regular part with a temperature of 0.

 

[dinac 0]

i found some interesting topics about making PCB and marker pen :

http://reprap.org/wiki/Plotting

http://capolight.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/converting_images_to_gcode/

http://additive-edge.blogspot.se/

https://ultimachine.com/content/printing-circuit-boards-mendel

 

[edis 0]

Have you tried any of these methods? i did, and had no success

 

[dinac 0]

i did not have time ... but i will try ..

 

[jacktimo 0]

This could be great idea. e.g. we attach a oil marker to our printer, then we place a blank pcb and the printer marks pcb tracks. Then by etching the board we get really nice pcb.