![]() There is also an ultimate pack of 74 Gelly Roll Pens, which I first used starting out, and still use as a reference for all the color options available! Other fun options include Moonlight Gelly Roll pens which will fluoresce under UV light, packs of shades of grey! You can purchase packs of gelly roll pens from Amazon including the metallic gold as a 6 pack and white gelly rolls as a 3 pack. Ink flow from these pens is quite inconsistent! However, I have found that the metallic gold gelly roll pens, and white gelly roll pens in medium thickness work well with the AxiDraw pen plotter. My favorite pens to use are gelly roll pens! They are also the most frustrating and difficult. My Favorite Pens: Gelly Roll Pens (Also the Most Evil to Work With) You can find the 3d model at the end of this blog post! I also find Illustrator helpful for testing what the designs will look like at different print sizes, varying line thicknesses, pen colors and so on.įor the sake of consistency, and my sanity, I have a little 3d printed doo-dad that I use so that I am always placing my pens at the same height above the paper. I prefer to generate separate Illustrator files for each layer. ![]() I use Illustrator to clean up the designs, and separate out sections of the designs into separate layers if I want to do a multicolor print. I create my generative designs from a Processing sketch that generates a PDF file. There is an AxiDraw plugin for Inkscape that includes a hatch-fill option if you want to shade in solid areas (especially handy for decorative text.) However, there are also command line tools for running the AxiDraw as well. I use Inkscape (an open source and free vector software similar to Illustrator) to send my drawings to the AxiDraw to plot. Mostly I went this route as I have a ton of artist's tape on hand! I like the thinnest artist tape ( 1/4 an inch, although 1/2 an inch is good too!) Lots of people use magnets though instead! Running the AxiDraw I use artist's tape to temporarily attach my paper to the MDF board as it comes off the paper cleanly (although you need to be gentle) and can be reused. With this setup, the AxiDraw legs do overlap 14 inch paper, so I use 3d printed cylinders that raise the legs of the AxiDraw If you want to replicate this setup, you can use nylon washers/spacers to raise the height of the pen plotter legs. My version of the AxiDraw can print up to A3 in size (roughly 11 by 17 inches.) Many of my designs are square, so the max design I draw is on a 14 by 14 inch paper where the design is 11 by 11 inches in the center. I drew by hand a line for where a 14 by 14 inch piece of paper should be placed. The MDF board is nice and smooth for drawing! On the MDF, I used the AxiDraw to draw a line for where various sized prints should be placed - the main corner is for any print 10 X 10 inches and smaller in size. Since MDF warps over time, going with a thicker board minimizes the issue. I mounted my AxiDraw to a thick piece of MDF board, as it happened to be what was lying around. The AxiDraw pen plotter comes mostly ready to go. I have experimented with a lot of pens with my AxiDraw since (don't ask me how much I spent on pens in the past year!) If you are looking for info on setting up an AxiDraw, and different pens, then keep reading. It's been well over a year since I acquired an AxiDraw pen plotte r and began plotting my generative art! Take 10% off an AxiDraw pen plotter and accessories with discount code DIRTALLEY10 when you buy from Evil Mad Scientist, the makers of the AxiDraw! ![]() As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
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