Draw with your 3D Printer!

[@morphious86.]

A 3D printer, but comes with a *plot twist*

[@zooeey]

this would be great for forging signatures

[@lego04]

actually they can see differences in them. Between Human and Printer

[@colinyoung3685]

You could still see the difference, this prints at a uniform height unlike a natural pen stroke that varies in pressure.

[@xerospacious4024]

colin young easy solution add pressure post printing with a pen using your hand

[@Rmoore08]

You could just program in a variation in pressure? (Z axis up and down small amounts)

[@TomE1248]

I said earlier to add a spring to aid pressure gradient :)

[@Max-hl3wp]

woah, almost like a 2D printer!

[@RabbitsInBlack]

Do you realize what the potential of this is? You can print on different objects that would never be able to fit in a printer.

[@chaddanylak8706]

2d printer, do you mean inkjet/laser printer

[@m_ridian]

chad danylak you knew what he meant

[@JamesVictorArt]

so you made a 3d printer... into a printer

[@ralakus8784]

It already was a printer, he just took 1 dimension off.

[@JamesVictorArt]

Ralakus gg

[@skywalker2837]

Music, Art & Science would be really useful when you're required to write stuff using pen and paper

[@JamesVictorArt]

Sky Walker or you could just not be a lazy fuck and do it yourself

[@timmydoes5373]

think about taking a picture of someone's signature and making it perfectly on anything in just 14-20 mins

[@you_just]

buys a 3-d printer uses it to print in 2-d

[@MouseGoat]

sometimes the most genius ideas, sounds the stupidest.

[@rudeelmo8004]

At first I thought the same thing... but instead... try thinking of the potential... Me? How about wood burning art?

[@spikekent]

Awesome! You have some fantastic ideas, and then you make them into reality. Fantastic ingenuity.

[@Tech2C]

Cheers!

[@JGunlimited]

With all the work you have done with the pen head, mill head, and laser head, adding a vinyl cutter head seems like it would be straightforward

[@ModerateDev]

these images are really beautiful I'm really impressed with how accurate 3d printers are.

[@nairo4533]

Im gonna cheat at art class with that

[@schwarztaxi]

Nairo would do that, too xD

[@livcool6175]

@Nakari672 the 3d printer looks real, with a normal printer you can easily spot that it is fake

[@alichu2]

That is the reason why I am here

[@smvkey]

This is just a big step to 2D printing #TheFutureIsNow

[@darkshadowsx5949]

nice. I did this 2 years ago while I was out of filament. it was pretty cool I made my pen adapter use a rubber band to keep even pressure on an imperfectly level bed and raised the retraction height. worked great and i havent see anyone else doing it that way.

[@goldbunny1973]

It should be possible to have a magnetic bracket to enable fast switching of accessory printheads; Extruder, CNC laser or Pe. A simple magnetic rack above the printer could be used to hold unused printheads out of the way. Swop-ins definitely are the way to go. Very nice video by the way.

[@starbattle1]

Great prints using a ballpoint pen. I am a designer my self and would recommend using an art rapidograph pens from the brand micron. They are easy to buy and come in sizes ranging from .005 mm to 8.0 mm. I use a .005 mm and a .10 mm pen in my plotter it would make a difference in your plane and bike test prints.

[@wesleymorrison9941]

I did this and got absolutely amazing results. Working on hardware upgrades right now.

[@tiagotiagot]

How about painting, with an actual paint brush, adding motions to dip the brush in ink every once in a while, and using the Z axis to control the thickness of the stroke?

[@jindinlane9816]

Love your enthusiasm, entirely inspiring mate good work

[@deimosphob]

I feel like with a very percise 3d printer and some very good software you could get it to do shading with a pencil.

[@MarkWheadon]

I guess you probably could, yes -- multiple layers would get you that with a pencil. The parts of the image that are several layers thick will be darker than the thinner parts. You can get a similar effect when printing with translucent filament.

[@TomE1248]

Deimos Phob a pencil and a spring

[@deimosphob]

TomE1248 thats a good idea. If I only I had a 3d printer to test it on, and a software guy to help me out. Cause of-course there would have to be a certain amount of pressure to shade it in certain ways. and also to account for the amount of pencil lead lost

[@Spirit532]

You'd have to have some sort of force feedback. Which, actually, can be done! There even exist commercial solutions, like the f-servo.

[@dylie]

Deimos Phob buy a 150$ 3d printer kit and build one :) i'm sure you can find someone to help tou

[@Texas_Radical]

also adding a fitting block that you could set the mount on top of when mounting the pen, to get the correct length of the pen to bed, would be pretty easy.

[@LindaMaricas]

I'd recommend a gel pen for paper substrates. There's lots of people testing this out with their Silhouette (etc.) paper plotters.

[@potatosquids]

I think the plane pic looks really good

[@Faithscanvas]

CUSTOM COLORING BOOKS

[@tomdunphy6865]

Faith .D papa bless

[@gingerxddd5698]

Arduino Lithiumi isnt the ink cheaper this way though?

[@emosmoshbride]

Faith .D papa bless

[@Nuttavoot]

Can't wait to see more uses of Hypercube, I'll be building one soon. Thanks for the good machine.

[@NoSkillsRequired]

Hi there buddy I just started with drawing and I got a small problem new version of cura is working so slow maybe is just my computer or else, instead I am using repetier but not that good. All the best keep teaching us

[@arvind5604]

Can't wait to see what mods you adding into already awesome hypercube build to make it swappable platform. Great video!

[@natgrant1364]

Oh dear, I might have to try this. lol. Even though the first attempt was flawed, it still looked really cool!

[@Tech2C]

It does look pretty good. Let's call it abstract art... :P

[@3dPrintCreator]

Hi Tech2C I am busy building your machine and while I am, I am building 2 machines on top of each other. The Z extrusions I use are 1 meter long, in stead of 350mm. so that it enables me to stack 2 machines on top of each other, both having 50cm of room. The first machine is already finished and working, and it's printing the parts for the second machine at this moment. The second machine (at the bottom) could be the machine that is gong to have multiple ways of usage. I would love to have a way to assemble PCB's here. Can you imagine. One rack with two machines that are capable of making a PCB and it's housing at the same time? Thank you so much for making this printer. Can't wait until you have your updates.

[@Tech2C]

Hello 3d Print Creator, Wow, you're building 2 stacked on top of each other? That's wonderful! I had thought the Z extrusions we buy could remain at the 1 metre length and then stack up to 3 Hypercubes within. Well-done for making this a reality. Yes you'll be able to create a multi-purpose Hypercube stack - 3D Printing/Plotting/Milling/Engraving all in one.

[@UDoIt2]

This was just shared in our 3d printing facebook group. Good stuff!

[@Fpvfreaky]

Tech2C it was probably the paper lifting up as it looked abit puckered up.. great job mate. I've just ordered my first 3d printer. Cr-10 creality.. well excited.. fantastic video 👍🏽

[@laszlogo90]

when i'm done building this machine (currently still waiting for some small parts) this is something i probably would be interested in trying out myself!

[@SegaJennesiss]

this would honestly be a good way to get line art done

[@paulpardee]

That Porsche made me very nostalgic for the early days of computing. I remember all the really cool vector clip art packages you could buy and I'm pretty sure that Porsche was was one of them. Computers are a lot more useful today, but they were far more adventurous 25 years ago. I miss that adventure. Unrelated to that, have you seen AvE's recent review of the AxiDraw? He used it to 'etch' foam board and put a sharpie on to make custom t-shirts. I didn't think about converting my printer to do the same, but I probably can using this video! Thanks!

[@AndrewSmart32]

id say use a gel pen instead of a ballpoint pen, i'm pretty sure they dont use a ball so that would fix the consistent dotting issue more easily

[@Willem654]

Something like this should be used for painting 3d prints.

[@ingetnamn5447]

Make the extrution thickness thinner so that the black parts are not gridded, but filled in.

[@TheEvilVargon]

Why? "Open book test. Handwritten notes only"

[@JRenee141]

Change your name to TheEvilGenius pls

[@JaridMitchell]

god this makes me wish I had my 3d printer in college lol

[@huntereatsbrownies]

I've used that kind of pen before and if you went with a higher quality pen like G2's gel fine tips then you could get incredibly realistic prints, Id like to see that! (and at a much higher speed)

[@Geeksmithing]

Dude!! This is super inspiring and I cannot wait to try this out! Thanks for posting it!

[@RansomMakes]

This is Brilliant! Such an excellent proof of concept, thank you for sharing this!

[@nukularpictures]

Well the 20x20mm aluminum wont be strong enough to mill anything except maybe thin ply. And even then you will probalby have to much play in your xy-gantry. With a 5W laser diode you will probably be able to engrave on wood. maybe even cut thin stuff. But be carefull then. Those lasers could really damage your eyes even if its just reflected from your printerframe. Im currently designing a multifunctional machine myself but i plan on using 80x80 alu extrusions and even then fem amalysis says that its probably to weak to really mill hard materials. But all in all good luck with converting it :) its really a nice idea

[@Tech2C]

Yes I'll discover the limits of the Hypercube with the mill. Agreed working with lasers safety first! I'll get the tinted glasses before I begin that part.

[@SidheS]

Very cool. Reminds me a little of when I was building my Hypercube: before it had a Z-axis and build plate, I tested out its X&Y axis by taping a pen to the X-carriage, holding a piece of paper up to the pen and running a print of a name plate. It was a bit shaky due to the appalling build platform(!) but my daughter was delighted to see it drawing her name. Another option to add to the laser cutter + drill options is a paste squirter: attach a syringe + plunger and get it squirting out icing sugar or polyfilla...

[@Tech2C]

Cool! Syringe is a great idea, and 3D printing edible substances will be the next chaptor after the usual attachments.

[@EngineeringVignettes]

The syringe module is a good idea. Other possible materials; SMT solder paste, or SMT glue.. Another channel recently showed a candy machine that used hot candy in syringes... - Eddy

[@SidheS]

Interestingly, Printrbot (manufacturers of my very first 3d printer) have such a squirter available for some models of Printrbot: printrbot.com/shop/paste-food-extruder/. USD$264, even in a sale - yeouch. Amusingly, the 'filament diameter' is 27mm.

[@waqarghulam2653]

Deathlok67 trtt

[@justaverage8111]

When your teacher ask you to write an 200 word essay

[@laharl2k]

As always, the problem is software. I'd say to first preprocess it on gimp, try the edges finder filter, try getting it to look the most like a black and white line art. Then Filter all the colours so that it goes from 0 to 255. then repeat what you did in the video.

[@rogantu]

I'm pretty excited about my first print atm. So far the 24h print is going well but I haven't done anything before so I have no idea if the spaceship is gonna turn out alright.

[@3DprintedLife]

Awesome video as always!

[@KenLord]

Good information - I didn't know that Cura could be used directly to make lithophanes from images. I've been running images through a website that generates lithophane STL's.

[@ConsultingjoeOnline]

Great Video. Keep it up. Thanks. I can't wait to try this. Would be nice to make signs for a small wedding. Or even add gcode to auto dip a brush but one step at a time. Joe

[@wilddog1979]

Yeah, I was thinking also if this method could be used to mill your own PCB.

[@Lundev_]

Nice video ;) The laser module is a great idea but I doubt a 3D printer is strong enought to serve as a mill, just see how the XY carriage wobble when you are pressing on it. You can still try it but it will certainly won't cut hard materials.

[@Tech2C]

I agree. I'll see how far I can go with it for milling. Maybe if the movement speed is really slow it could handle certain materials, but as you say, milling hard materials would be difficult.

[@FranzzInLove]

Lundev I Star Citzen there's mpcnc for that :)

[@Lundev_]

François I totally agree but the mpcnc has been designed for that, I was just saying that milling with a hyper cube (and most of other 3d printers) aren't designed to be sturdy enough to allow milling and that's totally fine since they are 3d printers 😉

[@FranzzInLove]

Lundev I Star Citzen I know, you're totally right.

[@anvz6]

You should use inkscape. It has a gcode generator for driving CNC machines that can do this perfectly.

[@hoverhead047]

I like what you've done here, I'm sure there are programs that will produce printer/plotter gcode for more effective plots. As for making a CNC router type machine, such a machine would have to have a very small cutting head and operate fairly slow as the 3d printer's frame would be designed to cope with the new lateral forces generated by a milling/routing operation. From my experience with pen plotters the pen is lifted off the paper by solenoid and use gravity or spring to cause contact between the ball and the paper.

[@CemKalyoncu]

Or use inkscape gcode tools. They are designed to convert 2D graphics into plots that can be printed using a 3D printer with a pen, just like yours.

[@andypandy5781]

still more reliable than a normal 2d printer

[@Fugatech3DPrinting]

Epic video man. You definitely inspired me to build a Hyper Cube!

[@Tech2C]

Great!

[@alexisorg1]

You could have used a seperate piece of software to vectorize the drawings and then extruded them to 0.02 layer heighs in cad. Cool idea by the way!

[@macelius]

now it would be fun to print "2d" images like that plane or porsche with just a couple of layers of plastic or vinyl, use to decorate as appliques or?

[@AcrimoniousMirth]

"Highwheeler"? That's the first time I've heard a penny-farthing called that. Cool!

[@patrickhill7973]

I actually think the plane drawing looked cooler than the original

[@MB-lh5kw]

its a good way to print panel for equipment too

[@birdmun]

Great info on abusing Cura to get good results. You might look at inkscape and its included gcode plugin. You might not have to make any/many adjustments. Your axes are not likely stout enough to mill with. I won't tell you to not try, just don't expect great results.

[@Tech2C]

I have toyed around with inkscape using the jtechphotonics extension. I'm not sure about the inbuilt gcode tools though, I need to investigate further.

[@StephenCia]

Tech2C I use inkscape plugin to openscad.

[@Tech2C]

I just tested the openscad extension for Inkscape. It works great for the perimeter of an image, but it misses the interior of the image.

[@StephenCia]

Agreed. The conversion to SVG seems to have no control at all. A darker detailed area would appear tobe a blob of blackness...

[@birdmun]

This won't add to the ongoing discussion here, but, I feel I should clarify something. When I said abuse Cura, my comment was tongue in cheek. I am impressed that you, Tech2C, looked at Cura and thought, I bet I can make this do what I want.

[@user-mo4ul5td2p]

there is also a specific profile provided by cura for plotting

[@geospectrum]

Add a blade to make complex paper cut outs.

[@ShadowFish]

essentially take a new 3d printer and use it to do what an old printer could do xD

[@victoria4987]

This + custom font of your handwriting = profit

[@JZStudiosonline]

Did you change the nozzle diameter to represent the pen point? could change the amount of detail. For paper it would be better to use thicker sheets that won't warp while printing, and maybe a better pen like a fine point sharpie or Pigma Micron. The ball point gets a bit messy.

[@tchiwam]

plotter nostalgia :)

[@coop534]

Make your 3d printer into a lazer cutter!

[@MattJoyce01]

I'm really pleased to here you're interested in alternative uses. hopefully you will be compelled to design a great system for various mounts. perhaps something similar to a camera quick release? with regards to treating gcode for drawings, have you looked as Inkscape?

[@nealmenhinick]

This is great! Can't wait to try this

[@Flumphinator]

There should be a glue stick holder. Maybe have a Cura or slic3r config that has the nozzle diameter as the diameter of the glue stick, and lays down a layer only right where you need it. Maybe have it just clipped to the side of the carriage and run with the offset for dual extruders setting, so when the glue is down, you just take off the glue stick and print as normal. Maybe even load that gcode into your intro code, and wait for user to confirm to move forward after the glue code is finished. Glue stick bot!

[@rickyracer8717]

Very cool! I've been wondering how to do this.... I would like to make a drag knife to cut vinyl. 123D Design does SVG files, so there's an option too.... Thanks for the clip! 👍

[@averryy]

3D printers are so boring!! Let's make it a 2D printer!

[@brianjamessheehan]

Steven Derp and let's make it go SLOWER

[@averryy]

Santa Yeah!

[@octopus1182]

AND lets make the quality 160p !!

[@zacharybrownlow]

Boring... let's make it the new and improved 0000000000.1p

[@averryy]

PineAche Yes

[@DanielHernandiCaserta]

maybe you can use the EVA Paper insted the heated for more smootheness at draw

[@cheeto4493]

I was thinking about using it as a vinyl cutter, but I would want it to do true vector. I would think Inkscape would have a hpgl export that then could be converted to Gcode. I will have to dig into this further.

[@welshdave5263]

cheeto4493 I think there is a pluggin called inkcut. I'll be having my hackspace induction on using our plotter/cutter on Saturday, I'm sure I'll be learning about this.

[@FredrikFlintstone]

Hi, just came across this video. Glad i did. I haven't read the comments so this may be redundant. Have you tried using a Cricut pad to stick the draw surface down better?

[@MrBobWareham]

You can purchase Plotter pens in different colours that I think would work even better than your pen? (not tried) as I don't have a 3d printer but if I could afford one I would and I did love your penny farthing bike lovely good video thanks

[@Sutanreyu]

Could be used as a great way to calibrate a printer... Nice.

[@meez5412]

I'm so glad you can leave voice messages as comments now!!! ▶ 🔘──────── 00:21

[@clthzapparel9981]

Miez LP nobody is this dumb

[@foxbow90]

Do you think it's also possible to stick a vinyl cutter blade to the end and cut vinyl? I don't know if a vinyl cutter rotates the knife?

[@360dom360]

I wonder if you could get a dremel onto that and make it carve images into stuff

[@ottersdangerden]

Sweet!BTW AVE just posted a video about an xy plotter a couple days ago, kinda wonder if more things like this will popup lol

[@NathanHaaren]

can you make the 3D printer print a signature with a ballpoint pen, at the speed and pressure a human does it ? :D would be cool if you can sign documents with a 3D printer!

[@Makenitso]

Would the pen holder i designed for your x-carriage (thing:2044609) interfere with your inductive pickup?

[@Makenitso]

Oh and nicely done with the Cura settings!, i'll have to have a play with those. I switched to Slic3r because of retraction issues with Cura.

[@joseguevara184]

I think it could be done replacing the pen with a blade for Vynil cutting... right?

[@Jaron-Wilson]

Would I have to remove the head, I have ender 3 v2 and I would like to do this, would I just make it have a different offset, like make it so that my pen is on the outside of it. How would I also turn off the nozzle and everything, because of course over the years cura has changed.

[@karlnul]

Wow that was really interesting! Nice video, well done!

[@intelligenceservices]

Marlin won't let me set the temperatures to zero so it seems like i need to manually tune the temperature to something before it will print. Also, it seems like Cura 2.7 uses one value for both the top and bottom layers, the bottom layer being the initial one. at any rate the settings for Cura are worded differently and kind of deep so my plotter is stopping before it even starts.

[@hansc.4175]

Cool! Looks fun, too, and possibly useful. But I gotta tell ya, Porsche has TWO syllables (Paw-sha is probably as close as most English speakers can manage). Cheers & thanks, eh (as we Canadians are alleged to say). ;-)

[@3D_Printing]

5:20 a bit rough but this could make it look more likes a hand sketched than being perfect. Neat :)

[@callumharris2907]

The "high wheeler bike" is called a penny farthing

[@B_Site]

so its now just a printer

[@heimdallmidgard4670]

Many thanks for this video. Will make my PCBs with it :)

[@jonathanfowler2932]

You could use it to put icing on a cake!

What about change the nozzle size, maybe 0.2mm ?

[@wingmangt]

You managed to convert a 3D printer into regular one :D

[@MexieMex]

Just as an experiment, have to tried printing a letter (or any page of text) with this set-up?

[@Nedeles]

Do you know what a printer is?

[@dragnet53]

Would a Calligraphy pen be better suited for this?

[@kraken3793]

wicked video, i dont have an auto leveler but ima give it ago, subscribed!

[@theone-0339]

hi there.i have a cr10s pro.i love this plan.R u any idea for used on cr10s pro?

[@theone-0339]

ok.nice. I made a 2D plotter with my creality cr10s pro following your instructions. I am very happy. And thank you so much.

[@AbdullahBilik]

so you say that I can "sign" celebrities signs by myself and sell them on ebay or so?