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nornagon / saxi

Tools & library for driving the AxiDraw pen plotter
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Painting with Saxi #96

Open andeecollard opened 2 years ago

andeecollard commented 2 years ago

First of all— this software is miraculous! I love it.

I have been using the Axidraw branch of Watercolorbot to control my machine. https://github.com/evil-mad/wcb-ink/tree/V1_axidraw

Could you give me any advice about how to implement this style of control through Saxi?

Are there any plans to add colour changing/brush reloading?

sorry I know it’s a niche demand.

HenrySkup commented 2 years ago

If only to push my own use case...

I could see what was discussed in #69 being a way to create this functionality... basically can we attach meta data to either the svg document or to individual geometry elements which can affect and tweak functionality.

nornagon commented 2 years ago

Yep, I'd love to support this sort of thing! I like what @HenrySkup said about using some sort of in-document annotations to support this rather than supporting painting actions specifically. That opens the door to other esoteric use cases, too.

andeecollard commented 2 years ago

Thank you both for your replies. I’ve had some success on other plotters editing the gcode manually to do this sort of thing but it’s pretty random and time consuming. I don’t really understand how the Watercolorbot Axidraw Inkscape extension does what it does.

Working with/from the svg is a clever idea.