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Commercial Plotters Plotters available for sale
| Title | Description | URL | View |
|---|---|---|---|
| AxiDraw | Simple, modern, and precise pen plotters. | https://axidraw.com/ | Go |
| Makelangelo 5 | Makelangelo 5 is a beautiful picture drawing robot. The Makelangelo can draw up to A1 sized pictures on a window, whiteboard, or easel with Sharpie or dry-erase markers. Use coupon "DRAWINGBOTS10" for 10% off! | https://www.marginallyclever.com/product/makelangelo-5/ | Go |
| Line-us | Line-us is an portable internet connected robot drawing arm. | https://www.line-us.com/ | Go |
| Makeblock XY Plotter | XY Plotter Robot Kit is a drawing robot that can move a pen or other instrument to draw digital artwork on flat surface | https://www.makeblock.com/project/xy-plotter-robot-kit | Go |
| CylinDraw | CylinDraw lets you easily create incredible art on any kind of cup | https://cylindraw.com/ | Go |
| iDraw | Pen Plotter. Use Coupon "drawingbots" for 15% off during purchase! | https://idrawpenplotter.com/ | Go |
| A1 ACRO | The ACRO A1 Series is your gateway to creative precision and automated artistry. Created with the artist in mind the ACRO A1 uses the most popular A series media, from A1 to A10 Built on the proven ACRO System, this innovative machine combines smooth motion and accuracy to bring your sketches, designs, and ideas to life. | https://us.openbuilds.com/a1-acro-draw-bot/ | Go |
DIY plotters and projects 3D printed, laser cut, or other home-made machines for drawing
| Title | Description | URL | View |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open source turtle robot | Open source turtle robot made with 3D printed materials and some circuits | https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2881396 | Go |
| ExtruDraw Extrusion-based Plotter | A plotter/drawing machine that uses 20x40mm and 20x20mm aluminium extrusion for both structure and linear guides. | https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2994920 | Go |
| DIY Drawing Robot | 3D printed Drawing robot. It is powered by an Arduino Uno controller, uses a CNC Shield, and GRBL firmware. The approximate cost to build this drawing robot is $100. | https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2349232 | Go |
| Unofficial archive of plotters | In this forum post you will find a roundup of plotters and drawing robots from around the world. | http://www.polargraph.co.uk/forum/polargraphs-group2/general-forum1/drawbots-from-around-the-web-thread249.5/ | Go |
| MidTBot | Very small DIY plotter that you can 3D print and put together. | https://github.com/bdring/midTbot_esp32 | Go |
| CylinDraw | CylinDraw lets you easily create incredible art on any kind of cup | https://cylindraw.com/ | Go |
| Make 3d Printer into plotter | A 3D Printable Pen Plotter Toolhead for the Creality Ender 3 3D Printer | https://github.com/AndrewSink/pltr_toolhead | Go |
| BrachioGraph | The cheapest, simplest pen plotter. A BrachioGraph can be built in an hour or so without any special skills. The total cost of all components can be as low as €15 or so. Apart from a Raspberry Pi computer and some hobby servo motors, the plotter can be built with everyday household items such as a clothes-peg. | https://www.brachiograph.art | Go |
| Graffiti plotter | Huge plotter that can do graffiti | https://github.com/royrobotiks/Graffomat | Go |
| LEGO Camera Mount for AxiDraw | Raspberry Pi Camera mount for AxiDraw, made out of LEGO | https://muffinman.io/blog/axidraw-lego-camera-mount/ | Go |
| Fumik: Open-source, wall drawing robot | DIY Wall Drawing Robot | https://github.com/fumikrobot/source-code | Go |
| Numerically Controlled Pen Plotters in Art | This research aims at exploring the potential to extend the creative capabilities of a pen plotter. While commercial pen plotters offer limited possibilities for controlling a pen’s pressure or its height in relation to the drawing surface, developing an advanced pen-lift mechanism would allow for dynamically controlling the height of a writing or drawing implement with adequate resolution. These improvements permit using an ink brush or pen with a flexible tip to modulate the stroke weight of the drawn lines. | https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2022062048099 | Go |
| A1 ACRO | The ACRO A1 Series is your gateway to creative precision and automated artistry. Created with the artist in mind the ACRO A1 uses the most popular A series media, from A1 to A10 Built on the proven ACRO System, this innovative machine combines smooth motion and accuracy to bring your sketches, designs, and ideas to life. | https://us.openbuilds.com/a1-acro-draw-bot/ | Go |
Community Where the party's at
| Title | Description | URL | View |
|---|---|---|---|
| A huge list of resources | A list like this one (an inspiration) | https://github.com/beardicus/awesome-plotters | Go |
| Subreddit For Plotter Art | Subreddit For Plotter Art | https://www.reddit.com/r/PlotterArt/ | Go |
| DrawingBots Twitter | Twitter account for Plotter enthusiasts (coming soon) | https://twitter.com/drawingbots | Go |
| DrawingBots Discord | A place to talk about drawing robots and challenges | https://discordapp.com/invite/XHP3dBg | Go |
| DrawingBots Facebook | A place to chat about drawing robots, share designs, links, etc | https://www.facebook.com/drawingbots | Go |
| PlotterFiles | Hundreds of Free SVG files for plotters and other 2D CNC machines | https://plotterfiles.com/ | Go |
| A1 ACRO | The ACRO A1 Series is your gateway to creative precision and automated artistry. Created with the artist in mind the ACRO A1 uses the most popular A series media, from A1 to A10 Built on the proven ACRO System, this innovative machine combines smooth motion and accuracy to bring your sketches, designs, and ideas to life. | https://us.openbuilds.com/a1-acro-draw-bot/ | Go |
GCode Generators SVG to GCode generators
| Title | Description | URL | View |
|---|---|---|---|
| openjscam | TPLang (with modifications) -> G-Code in pure JavaScript | https://github.com/makercam/openjscam | Go |
| Halftoner and Reactor | Two interesting free software packages (Windows only) | https://jasondorie.com/page_cnc.html | Go |
| 3dwriter.io | Converts text to postcards and written gcode | 3dwriter.io | Go |
| gcodeplot | Converter for SVG and HPGL to gcode for a 3-axis GCode machine | https://github.com/arpruss/gcodeplot/ | Go |
| HTML Canvas to gcode | Draw in canvas with javascript and export a gcode file | https://github.com/lavolpecheprogramma/gcode-context | Go |
| Depictor | A raspberry pi based print server to control your plotter. It can convert images to drawings, has a gallery with all previous prints and has a live print preview to check the progress of your drawings. | https://github.com/Iqwertz/Depictor | Go |
| Sudoku Gcode | A simple processing sketch to generate gcodes/svgs of sudoku riddles. | https://github.com/Iqwertz/SudokuGcode | Go |
| fabnodes , export gcode from blender | abnodes-GCode Exporter is a Blender addon that allows you to export geometry node toolpaths as G-code for CNC machines, 3D printers, laser cutters, and pen plotters. | https://extensions.blender.org/add-ons/fabnodes/ | Go |
SVG Generators Tools that produce SVG files
| Title | Description | URL | View |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patternodes | A tool for creating graphical vector patterns, animations or illustrations using a node-based interface where you define a sequence of connected nodes that describe the design, each representing graphical elements, changes or repetitions. | https://www.lostminds.com/patternodes2/ | Go |
| Differential Growth Experiments | Series of visual experiments in JavaScript exploring the topic of differential growth as a method for generating interesting 2D forms | https://github.com/jasonwebb/2d-differential-growth-experiments | Go |
| WaveFormer | Turns audio recordings into a drawing | https://www.misha.studio/waveformer/ | Go |
| Letters with QuickDraw | SVGs and designs made with QuickDraw dataset | http://frauzufall.de/en/2017/google-quick-draw/ | Go |
| TemplateMaker | Create designs for unique boxes, custom enclosures. Can be used with LaserCutting | https://templatemaker.nl/ | Go |
| InkRays | Circular designs generator | http://thoka.net/inkrays.html | Go |
| MakerJS | JavaScript library for creating and sharing modular line drawings for CNC | https://maker.js.org/ | Go |
| Medieval City Generator | Generates maps of imaginary medieval cities | https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator | Go |
| Map path generator | Generates maps of the world | https://pixelmap.amcharts.com/ | Go |
| Mandala Generator | Creates Mandala designs | http://mandalacreator.com/ | Go |
| Spiral Generator | Generates Spirals with noise | https://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/2808 | Go |
| Moire Patterns | Some Moire patterns made with D3 | https://codepen.io/msurguy/pen/WYNyaQ | Go |
| SVGUrt | A few tools for creative image -> SVG conversion | https://svgurt.com | Go |
| Curved Polygons | Generates Curved polygons | https://codepen.io/msurguy/pen/BxaXaY | Go |
| Delaunay Triangulator | Image 2 Delaunay triangulation | https://snorpey.github.io/triangulation/ | Go |
| Ln (3D line art engine) | 3D Line Art Engine | https://github.com/fogleman/ln | Go |
| CanvasSketch | A framework for making generative artwork in JavaScript and the browser. | https://github.com/mattdesl/canvas-sketch | Go |
| SquiggleDraw | Processing app to create an SVG based on the brightness of an image transformed into sine waves. | https://github.com/gwygonik/SquiggleDraw | Go |
| SquiggleCam | Browser tool for fast image -> squiggle drawing conversion | https://msurguy.github.io/SquiggleCam/ | Go |
| StippleGen | Software that can create stipple drawings and “TSP art,” from image files | https://github.com/evil-mad/stipplegen | Go |
| PenKit | Tools for pen plotting in Python | https://github.com/paulgb/penkit | Go |
| Image 2 Hilbert | Upload an image to generate a single line (Hilbert Curve) representation of it | https://shooshx.github.io/Image2Hilbert/ | Go |
| Vectorizer | A different kind of Spirograph | http://blackholedesign.com/vectorizer/ | Go |
| Spirograph | Spirograph made with Processing | https://github.com/rspt/processing-spirograph | Go |
| MazeGenerator | Creates SVGs of Mazes | http://www.mazegenerator.net/ | Go |
| Kolam Generator | Generates Kolam artworks | https://editor.p5js.org/msurguy/sketches/1ZZhuKOjh | Go |
| AsciiArt | Image to ASCII generator | https://pixlab.io/art | Go |
| SpiralRaster | Image to Spiral Raster generator | http://paperjs.org/examples/spiral-raster/ | Go |
| Generative Artworks | Some generative art generators made with Processing | https://github.com/digitalcoleman/generativeExamples | Go |
| City Generator | Makes imaginary cities that look hand-drawn | https://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/121526 | Go |
| Turtletoy | Website where your can create SVG's using a minimalistic Turtle graphics API | https://turtletoy.net/ | Go |
| Juicy GCode | Haskell tool for SVG 2 GCode conversion | https://github.com/domoszlai/juicy-gcode | Go |
| SVGPath Transforms | SVG Path Transformation library | https://github.com/fontello/svgpath/blob/master/lib/svgpath.js | Go |
| Scribble Generator | Drawbot_image_to_gcode_v2 | https://github.com/jwcliff/Drawbot_image_to_gcode_v2 | Go |
| Circuit generator in 35c3 style | Generative circuit generator in 35c3 style by Bleeptrack | https://35c3.bleeptrack.de/ | Go |
| Flower Generator | Flower Generator from Bleeptrack | https://blptrck.uber.space/flower/ | Go |
| Linedraw | Convert images to vectorized line drawings for plotters. | https://github.com/LingDong-/linedraw | Go |
| Scribbleplot | Processing scripts to create different plottable versions of images | https://github.com/bleeptrack/scribbleplot | Go |
| DullBits Drawbot | Generates scribbly g-code from images | http://dullbits.com/drawbot/submit | Go |
| LumberSharp | Stylized 3d scene to SVG conversion for plotting, inspired by Escher's woodcuts. | https://github.com/daeken/LumberSharp | Go |
| StippleGen (OSX port) | A port of Evil Mad Scientist's StippleGen Processing app to full desktop Java | https://github.com/fiskurgit/StippleGenOSX | Go |
| Mandala-esque Generator | A Web Based tool for making of mandala-esque plotter pieces | https://jan.jarfalk.se/mandalas/ | Go |
| Halftoner and Reactor | Two interesting free software packages (Windows only) | https://jasondorie.com/page_cnc.html | Go |
| Processing Boilerplate | Processing Boilerplate with Gcode Export | https://sighack.com/post/processing-boilerplate-with-gcode-export | Go |
| Tinkersynth | Virtual machine to generate cool art and download SVGs. It lets you create unique generative art by making serendipitous discoveries through experimentation. | https://tinkersynth.com/ | Go |
| WEIR | A System for Making Generative Systems from @inconvergent | https://github.com/inconvergent/weir | Go |
| VPype | The Swiss Army knife of vector graphics for pen plotters | https://github.com/abey79/vpype | Go |
| fawkes | This package provides an R API to control the AxiDraw pen plotter | https://fawkes.data-imaginist.com/ | Go |
| Peak Map | Make a ridge line chart from any region on Earth | https://anvaka.github.io/peak-map | Go |
| Sandify | SVG and GCode generator for single line drawings | https://sandify.org/ | Go |
| Components AI | Experimental computational design platform for exploring generative space | https://components.ai/ | Go |
| DeepSVG | A Hierarchical Generative Network for Vector Graphics Animation. | https://blog.alexandrecarlier.com/deepsvg/ | Go |
| SVG Cropper | Browser based tool to crop SVGs using a rectangle, circle, polygon or custom shape. | https://msurguy.github.io/svg-cropper-tool/ | Go |
| PlotterFiles | Hundreds of Free SVG files for plotters and other 2D CNC machines | https://plotterfiles.com/ | Go |
| Contour Map Creator | Create contour maps | https://contourmapcreator.urgr8.ch/ | Go |
| Elixir SVG generator | Elixir SVG graphics library and art scripts to draw with a pen plotter. | https://github.com/summasmiff/svg_generator | Go |
| SVG Peck | Minimalist vector tool for pen plotter artists | https://github.com/SableRaf/svgpeck | Go |
| lineboi3000 | lineboi3000 is a way cool graphical interface for drawing, painting, adding EFX, and then sending your designs to a pen plotter or creating animations | https://github.com/lilkraftwerk/lineboi3000 | Go |
| STL Terrain Generator | Generates STL 3D file of area on the map. | https://touchterrain.geol.iastate.edu/ | Go |
| Nodebox | NodeBox makes it easy to do data visualisations and generative design | https://www.nodebox.net | Go |
| DrawingBotV3 | Drawing Bot is a free, open source software for converting images to line drawings for Plotters / Drawing Machines / 3D printers. It also serves as an application for visual artists to create stylised line drawings from images / video. | https://github.com/SonarSonic/DrawingBotV3 | Go |
| Plotter Vision | Process 3D STLs for 3D printing into 2D SVGs for plotting | http://plotter.vision | Go |
| Plotterfun | Lots of common plotter Java algorithms for generating SVGs in a single convenient web app | https://mitxela.com/plotterfun/ | Go |
| Sheet music to SVG renderer | In goes a midi file or a simple markup format, and out comes polylines, which can then be used for animation, plotting and various procedural drawing fun. | https://github.com/LingDong-/legumes | Go |
| 3D engines for SVG generation | A list of existing tools that convert 3D objects to plottable SVG files | https://github.com/msurguy/awesome-3d-engines-for-plotters | Go |
| Programmable SVG | Programmable Scalable Vector Graphics -- drawings that draw themselves | https://github.com/LingDong-/psvg | Go |
| Handwriting generator | Machine Learning-powered handwriting generator with option to save arbitrary generated handwriting as SVG | https://www.handwriting-generator.com/ | Go |
| SVG Crowbar | A Chrome-specific bookmarklet that extracts SVG nodes and accompanying styles from an HTML document and downloads them as an SVG file | https://nytimes.github.io/svg-crowbar/ | Go |
| Potrace | A NodeJS-compatible JavaScript tool for tracing bitmaps. | https://www.npmjs.com/package/potrace | Go |
| Flowchart.fun | A tool that generates SVGs of flowcharts from structured text | https://flowchart.fun/ | Go |
| City Map Generator | A tool by @probabletrain for creating procedural city maps in the browser, downloadable as SVG files | https://maps.probabletrain.com/#/ | Go |
| Great-96 | a tool for generating Islamic tiling geometric patterns | https://isohedral.ca/great-96/ | Go |
| AudioPlotter | A tool for generating SVGs of audio waveforms from sound files | https://audioplotter.ars.is/ | Go |
| DrawSVG | A Python 3 library for programmatically generating SVG images and rendering them or displaying them in a Jupyter notebook. | https://pypi.org/project/drawSvg/ | Go |
| Rad Lines | Beautiful SVG shape generator | https://msurguy.github.io/rad-lines/ | Go |
| Flow Lines | A tool for generating flow line representations using SVG paths / polylines | https://msurguy.github.io/flow-lines/ | Go |
| Contours generator by Axismaps | Create SVG contours of terrain maps | https://contours.axismaps.com/ | Go |
| SuperFormula | 2D superformula line-art generator built in Processing, with SVG export for use in digital fabrication workflows. | https://github.com/jasonwebb/SuperformulaSVG | Go |
| SVGO | SVG Optimizer (SVGO) is a Node.js-based tool for optimizing SVG vector graphics files. This tool removes redundant and useless information such as editor metadata, comments, hidden elements, etc., without affecting rendering. Also see the SVGO GUI, https://github.com/jakearchibald/svgomg. | https://github.com/svg/svgo | Go |
| StringyPlotter | TSP SVG Generator from 1 bit images | https://github.com/th0ma5w/StringyPlotter | Go |
| Axidraw Sketchpad | A P5.js sketch for creating SVG drawings | https://github.com/markroland/axidraw-sketchpad | Go |
| Mandalagaba | Mandala explorer with SVG Export option | https://pro.mandalagaba.com/ | Go |
| Duplicate Lines remover | Inkscape extension for removing duplicate lines in SVG files | http://cutlings.wasbo.net/inkscape-extension-removeduplicatelines/ | Go |
| Python Streamlines builder | A tool for building SVG streamlines from a 2d vector field | https://github.com/marcbln/python-streamlines-builder | Go |
| Sudoku Gcode | A simple processing sketch to generate gcodes/svgs of sudoku riddles. | https://github.com/Iqwertz/SudokuGcode | Go |
| Online SVG Optimizer | Free SVG optimizer for plotter and CNC users. | https://plotterfiles.com/tools/optimizer | Go |
| p5 Studio | CLI tool to rapidly create sketches with p5.js and Typescript | https://github.com/Bassintag/p5studio | Go |
| Raster to Vector conversion with AI | Online tool for Tracing Pixels To Vectors in Full Color | https://vectorizer.ai/?atk=n6orspaiho | Go |
| VTracer - Raster to Vector Graphics Converter | Web based open source tool for raster to vector conversion | https://www.visioncortex.org/vtracer/ | Go |
| Online Contour Maps | Easy and quick online elevation contour map generator. Has high accuracy LiDAR data and more. Can also create SVG by exporting as dxf and converting online | https://contourmap.app/ | Go |
| p5.plotSvg | The p5.plotSvg library allows the p5.js creative coding toolkit to generate SVG files specifically tailored for pen plotters. | https://github.com/golanlevin/p5.plotSvg | Go |
Algorithms R&D and innovations for drawing robots
| Title | Description | URL | View |
|---|---|---|---|
| TSP Solver | TSP Solver algorithm for optimizing pen travel | https://bitaesthetics.com/posts/optimizing-plots-with-a-tsp-solver.html | Go |
| SVG2Gcode (Python) | Python tool for converting SVG to GCode | https://github.com/Harvie/bCNC/blob/master/lib/svgcode.py | Go |
| SVG2Gcode (Python) | Another SVG2GCode conversion tool | https://github.com/SebKuzminsky/svg2gcode/blob/master/gcoder.py | Go |
| Centerline Tracing Tutorial | Tutorial on making line artworks | http://cleversomeday.com/rrcenterline/ | Go |
| Penkit Optimizer | Command-line tool for optimizing and visualizing the drawing order of SVG graphics for pen plotting. | https://github.com/paulgb/penkit/tree/master/optimizer | Go |
| SimplifyJS | JS script for simplification of SVG lines | http://mourner.github.io/simplify-js/ | Go |
| PX2SVG | Converts raster images to SVG, using color-run optimization. | https://github.com/meyerweb/px2svg | Go |
| FEngrave | F-Engrave is a text or image to g-code program | http://www.scorchworks.com/Fengrave/fengrave.html | Go |
| Scribbleplot | Processing scripts to create different plottable versions of images | https://github.com/bleeptrack/scribbleplot | Go |
| DullBits Drawbot | Generates scribbly g-code from images | http://dullbits.com/drawbot/submit | Go |
| Line Clipping Algorithm | The Cohen-Sutherland Line Clipping Algorithm | https://sighack.com/post/cohen-sutherland-line-clipping-algorithm | Go |
| Medial (and Scale) Axis Transform library | Medial (and Scale) Axis Transform library - SVG focused | https://mat-demo.appspot.com/#!/test-mat | Go |
| Article about Generative art and plotters | On fine art and generative line drawings | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17513470701441445 | Go |
| Algorithm for tiling of polygons | A technique for tiling the plane with regular polygons | https://observablehq.com/@esperanc/synthesizing-periodic-tilings-of-the-plane | Go |
| Skeleton Tracing | A new algorithm for retrieving topological skeleton as a set of polylines from binary images | https://github.com/LingDong-/skeleton-tracing | Go |
| Components AI | Experimental computational design platform for exploring generative space | https://components.ai/ | Go |
| SVG Cropper | Browser based tool to crop SVGs using a rectangle, circle, polygon or custom shape. | https://msurguy.github.io/svg-cropper-tool/ | Go |
| CozyVec | CozyVec by @brubsby is "a tiny terminal program for creating plotter art" with JavaScript. | https://brubsby.itch.io/cozyvec | Go |
| DrawSVG | A Python 3 library for programmatically generating SVG images and rendering them or displaying them in a Jupyter notebook. | https://pypi.org/project/drawSvg/ | Go |
| StringyPlotter | TSP SVG Generator from 1 bit images | https://github.com/th0ma5w/StringyPlotter | Go |
| Axidraw Sketchpad | A P5.js sketch for creating SVG drawings | https://github.com/markroland/axidraw-sketchpad | Go |
| Paper on converting images to lines | Abstracting Images into Continuous Line Artistic Styles | https://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/~shigeo/pdf/cgi2013-preprint.pdf | Go |
| 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development | Free book about 3D math, the geometry and algebra of 3D space. It is designed to teach you how to describe objects and their positions, orientations, and trajectories in 3D using mathematics. | https://gamemath.com/book/ | Go |
Supplies Pens, inks, papers
| Title | Description | URL | View |
|---|---|---|---|
| Common pens and papers | A list of pens and papers that are community favorites | https://drawingbots.com/knowledge/supplies | Go |
| Plotter Materials | Comprehensive chronological list of papers used by plotter artists | https://stylecampaign.com/blog/2023/05/plotter-materials-1 | Go |
Vintage Plotters Resources for old plotters
| Title | Description | URL | View |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3D-printed pen adapters | Parametric OpenSCAD code to create custom pen adapters. | https://github.com/juliendorra/3D-printable-plotter-adapters-for-pens-and-refills | Go |
| HP 7475A pen refill adaptor | Pen adapter for HP7475a, holds Pilot LG2RF refills. Add the spring from any common ballpoint pen to keep pressure on the refill cartridge. | https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4720715 | Go |
Plotter Control Software Software Solutions for controlling drawing robots
| Title | Description | URL | View |
|---|---|---|---|
| AxiDrawJS | "A complete solution for controlling AxiDraw via local server and browser application Comes with generators for a map, terrain and Lorenz attractor" | https://github.com/ubilabs/axidraw | Go |
| Axi | Unofficial driver software for AxiDraw | https://github.com/fogleman/axi | Go |
| saxi | saxi is a tool for interacting with the AxiDraw drawing machine by Evil Mad Scientist. It comes with an easy-to-use interface, and is exactingly precise. | https://github.com/nornagon/saxi | Go |
| Processing Boilerplate with Gcode Export | I had written up this Processing boilerplate for generating Gcode for my cheap chinese plotter based on GRBL. | https://sighack.com/post/processing-boilerplate-with-gcode-export | Go |
| Makelangelo Software | Makelangelo software that provides a beautiful, intuitive interface to drive your polargraph drawing robot | https://github.com/MarginallyClever/Makelangelo-software | Go |
| Processing Boilerplate | Processing Boilerplate with Gcode Export | https://sighack.com/post/processing-boilerplate-with-gcode-export | Go |
| fawkes | This package provides an R API to control the AxiDraw pen plotter | https://fawkes.data-imaginist.com/ | Go |
| AxiDraw Figma Plugin | Easily control an AxiDraw drawing machine from Figma. Prepare your vector art and send it to the plotter in one click. | https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/900668528149305876/AxiDraw | Go |
| TAXI - Axidraw GUI | Taxi is an opinionated touch screen Axidraw GUI | https://github.com/plottertools/taxi | Go |
| Penplotter Webserver | Pen Plotter Webserver for RPI0 | https://github.com/henrytriplette/penplotter-webserver | Go |
| Depictor | A raspberry pi based print server to control your plotter. It can convert images to drawings, has a gallery with all previous prints and has a live print preview to check the progress of your drawings. | https://github.com/Iqwertz/Depictor | Go |
| Universal G Code Sender CLI | A terminal based client for Universal Gcode Sender, making it possible to connect to a controller and send G-code files without any fancy GUI's. The program uses the same stable and well tested backend as UGS Classic and UGS Platform. | https://github.com/winder/Universal-G-Code-Sender/tree/master/ugs-cli | Go |
Data for design generation Collections and repositories of designs or data that can be used for making designs for plotting
| Title | Description | URL | View |
|---|---|---|---|
| TheDoodleLibrary | Some line drawings as SVGs | https://www.thedoodlelibrary.com/ | Go |
| Geometric artworks | 3D prints that could be converted to SVGs | https://www.thingiverse.com/UnpredictableLab/designs | Go |
| Circuit Board designs | Circuit board designs can be drawn with plotters | https://github.com/gregdavill/kicadScripts | Go |
| Icons for maps | Various open source map icons | https://github.com/tangrams/icons | Go |
| TheNounProject | Millions of vector icons | https://thenounproject.com | Go |
| Some free DXF designs | Lots and lots of ready to plot vector designs | https://www.scan2cad.com/free-downloads/dxf/ | Go |
| Dimensions.Guide | Dimensions.Guide is a comprehensive reference database of dimensioned drawings documenting the standard measurements and sizes of the everyday objects and spaces that make up our world. | https://www.dimensions.com/ | Go |
| Contour Map Creator | Create contour maps | https://contourmapcreator.urgr8.ch/ | Go |
| SVG Crowbar | A Chrome-specific bookmarklet that extracts SVG nodes and accompanying styles from an HTML document and downloads them as an SVG file | https://nytimes.github.io/svg-crowbar/ | Go |
| Online Contour Maps | Easy and quick online elevation contour map generator. Has high accuracy LiDAR data and more. Can also create SVG by exporting as dxf and converting online | https://contourmap.app/ | Go |
Articles Magazines, Writings and articles about pen plotters
| Title | Description | URL | View |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Plotter Comparison of 1994 | Article Comparing specs and prices of 24 plotters | https://bit.ly/2XMeZEs | Go |
| From Lettering Guides to CNC Plotter | A Brief History of Technical Lettering Tools | https://www.typotheque.com/articles/from_lettering_guides_to_cnc_plotters | Go |
| My AxiDraw – 5 lessons learned | An article for people thinking about buying an AxiDraw. 5 dos and don'ts taken from author's experience | https://www.jakub-antolak.dev/04-my-axidraw-5-lessons/ | Go |
| Research paper about plottertwitter hashtag | Tools, Tricks, and Hacks: Exploring Novel Digital Fabrication Workflows on #PlotterTwitter | https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445653 | Go |
| Numerically Controlled Pen Plotters in Art | This research aims at exploring the potential to extend the creative capabilities of a pen plotter. While commercial pen plotters offer limited possibilities for controlling a pen’s pressure or its height in relation to the drawing surface, developing an advanced pen-lift mechanism would allow for dynamically controlling the height of a writing or drawing implement with adequate resolution. These improvements permit using an ink brush or pen with a flexible tip to modulate the stroke weight of the drawn lines. | https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2022062048099 | Go |
| From Lettering Guides to CNC Plotters | From Lettering Guides to CNC Plotters. A Brief History of Technical Lettering Tools | https://www.typotheque.com/articles/from-lettering-guides-to-cnc-plotters | Go |
Text Fonts, Text tools, plugins and extensions for Plotter and drawing robot workflows.
| Title | Description | URL | View |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single Line Fonts | Fonts that are working well for plotters, drawing robots and laser engraving | http://www.imajeenyus.com/computer/20150110_single_line_fonts/index.shtml | Go |
| ttf2hershey | This tool converts the common True Type Font (.ttf) files to Hershey font format | https://github.com/LingDong-/ttf2hershey | Go |
| Single Line text creator | Type text and export to single stroke SVG for your plotter! | https://www.templatemaker.nl/singlelinetext/ | Go |
| Single line fonts | Fonts suitable for plotters or for laser cutters / engravers and CNC milling. Perfect for creating plottable text! | https://www.singlelinefonts.com?sca_ref=528246.D2LI4I1GOD | Go |
| Single-Line Font Renderer | A browser-based tool to render single-line/SVG fonts and export text as SVG files made for CNC machines and pen plotters. | https://jvolker.github.io/single-line-font-renderer/ | Go |
| Render LaTeX math with Hershey Fonts | hfmath is a tiny JS tool for rendering mathematics using single-line Hershey Fonts | https://github.com/LingDong-/hfmath | Go |
| p5.js Hershey Vector Font Library | p5.js Hershey Vector Font Library | https://github.com/LingDong-/p5-hershey-js | Go |
| chinese-hershey-font | Convert Chinese Characters to Single-Line Fonts using Computer Vision | https://github.com/LingDong-/chinese-hershey-font | Go |
| Relief SingleLine font | Relief SingleLine is a versatile sans serif “single-line” font with open paths oriented towards CNC (Computer Numerical Control) engraving and fab labs environments. | https://github.com/isdat-type/Relief-SingleLine | Go |
| CNC Text Single Line editor | Browser based editor for single line text. Has over 40 fonts available for use | https://msurguy.github.io/cnc-text-tool/ | Go |
| p5-single-line-font-resources | This is a repository of p5.js programs for loading and displaying single-line vector fonts. The repo includes an authoritative archive of single-line fonts in a wide variety of formats, including TTF, SVG Font, Hershey Font, and others. | https://github.com/golanlevin/p5-single-line-font-resources/blob/main/README.md | Go |
Plotter Manuals Looking for a manual for that plotter? Check here!
| Title | Description | URL | View |
|---|---|---|---|
| AxiDraw manual | Manual for AxiDraw drawing machines from the Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories | https://wiki.evilmadscientist.com/AxiDraw_User_Guide | Go |
| Roland DXY-990 manual | Roland DXY-990 Operation Manual in PDF form | https://archive.org/details/roland-dxy-990 | Go |
| HP 7475A Plotter Operation Manual | Operations and Interconnection Manual for the Hewlett Packard HP 7475A graphics pen plotter. | https://archive.org/details/HP7475AOperationManual | Go |
| HP 7475A Interfacing and Programming Manual | Interfacing and Programming Manual for the Hewlett Packard HP 7475A graphics pen plotter | https://archive.org/details/HP7475AInterfacingandProgrammingManual | Go |
| Roland DXY-880 X-Y Plotter Operation Manual | Operation Manual for the Roland DXY-880 X-Y Pen Plotter | https://archive.org/details/RolandDXY880PlotterOperationManual | Go |
| Service Notes for the Roland PDX 3300 Pen Plotter | Scanned by Paul Haeberli Noveber 2020 | https://github.com/PaulHaeberli/Roland-DPX-3300-Plotter | Go |
| Houston Instrument DMP-160 Series Plotters Operation Manual | Operation Manual for Houston Instrument DMP-160 series plotters. Scanned by Jimmy Kirkus-Lamont | https://archive.org/details/houston-instrument-dmp-160-series-plotters-operation-manual | Go |