good day all, yet another newbie here, despite this being easy to use i find it hard to draw things, must be because im an old fart lol, so ive set the arcdroid up on my desk in the house and replaced the torch with a felt tip pen with the intention of doing dozens of drawings until its sunk in how to use it lol, then it can go down to the workshop and make some sparks, however even drawing dident go to plan as the pen lifts back up once its probed the surface and then dosent draw so can i set “clear Z” to zero or .1mm in settings and see if that allows me to draw ?
so anyone else on here from the midlands uk ? thanks Andy
edit: it was “cutZ” that i needed to alter to keep the pen in contact with the paper
Figure out a spring loaded holder for your sharpie pen. I used an endmill storage tube for a pen holder. Someone was offering a 3D printed pen holder on here I believe. You’ll have to search for the posts….
And yet another , I bought the Arcdroid to make a cut out of my dog for a weathervane, having tried freehand with a Cebora plasma, it looked as though I had advanced DTs
Tracing is like wrestling a snake. I have the LED pen and a foot pedal, highly recommend, although postage cost thought I was buying the aircraft. I follow the outline I am after, and repeated use the pedal so the lines are not straight but follow what I require. It means you dont fight the machine’s stepper motors. All in all, I am very pleased with it. Be nice if they did a sort of dummy machine that I could use indoors to make the trace, then go to the workshop.
I had a photo from Canada hotel of a bear line drawing on a balcony, made a dfx and it came out well first go
Also I wonder if they will make a rotary holder to cut tubes.
indeed at least im learning bit by bit, ive got the hang of circles rectangles and straight lines, still struggling with curves, will have a hunt through youtube this afternoon and see what i can find,
its these 2 options here i havent got the hang of yet
Using the tracing facility, it is always fighting the stepper motors. I would be really interested in a tracing machine, not the cnc machine but one that used optical encoders to register the movement of the tracing arm. This would be absolutely smooth and could even have the same idea of the Arcdroid arm but used in an office. It would not even need to replicate the trace, that would be saved and loaded on the arcdroid. I would certainly buy one.
indeed i can the merits in that, sitting in the house drawing up stuff for the next day would be great, but guess i should have a go at learning cad lol
I have tried photo to cad but it produces a file too large for the Arcdroid to handle. I am trying to follow the outline of a dog from an A3 photo and it would easier without wrestling the arm on the Arcdroid.
photo to cad is still to far over my head at present lol, but ive been practicing with simple trace and can join up lines and curves, it works i can start cutting soon yay
