LY Drawbot Tool by Love Open Design

This is the official repository for the XY Plotter Tool Inkscape extension.

You can find a french version of this document on our website : love-open-design.com

Purpose

This extension work for the DIY XY Plotter High Precision Drawbot

• This is made for Inkscape 1.0 and above.
• This machin is using GRBL Control with GRBL Arduino Shield

Installation

Download the latest release here. Make sure to select the release targeted towards the version of Inkscape you are using. You can find the version of Inkscape you're using under Help > About.

Unzip the files directly into the Inkscape user extensions folder. Inkscape lists the location of your extensions folder under Edit > Preferences > System.

Restart Inkscape and you're done.

Gcode Panel

Inside Inkscape > Extension > Generate GCode for XY Plotter > XY Plotter tool from Love Open Design

Name	Definition	Default	Gcode Result
Drawing On Command	Gcode commande to lower down the Z-axis	M3	M3 S1000
Drawing Off Command	Gcode commande to upper the Z-axis	M5	M5 S0
Pen Up Travel speed	Travel speed with Pen Up	3000	G1 F3000
Pen Down Travel speed	Travel speed when drawing	1500	G1 F1500
Pen Active Power	command value to lower the pen	1000	M3 S1000
Pen On Delay	Delay after moving and before drawing	0,1	G4 P0.1
Pen Off Delay	Delay after drawing and before moving	0,2	G4 P0.2
Passes	Number of Passes
Pass Depth	relative to cnc milling	1,0
Directory	path directory to save your file in absolute
Filename + numeric value	the numeric value increment your file with the same name	output.gcode
All Units	Important Be sure to setting everything up to the same unit inside Inkscape - Document Units, Inkscape Units and this output units otherwise it mae some stranges things	mm

Custom G-code Header and Footer

Add "header" and "footer" text files without extensions in your destination directory to add custom commands. Don't forget to add a new line at the end of these two files.

If no files are detected the default values are :

• Header : G90 ; Absolute positioningon the
• Header : G0 Z0 ; Display path inside GRBL Control
• Footer : G1 X0 Y0 ; Move to X0 Y0

For developers

Pull requests are welcome. Just make sure to test your code on both Python >=2.6 and >=3.5 for the main branch, and Python >= 3.6 for the development branch (In the next major release we'll drop support for older python versions in an effort to improve code readability).

Credits

This inkscape extension is adapted from J-Tech-Photonics-Laser-Tool inkscape extension.

Thanks to StuartB44 for his work and infos on Instructables to display GCode inside GRBL Control