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Drawing text and pictures with Dexter

jamesnewton
Fri, 13 Oct 2017 00:21:54 GMT

At the Maker Faire in San Diego, we managed to get Dexter to print some DXF files and text with a marker on paper. These markers: https://www.google.com/shopping/product/10505594732212259478 have a very nice narrow part at the front with a sudden increase in diameter for the rest of the pen, which makes a perfect stop to keep the pen falling out the front of the holder and set the max depth. So I edited the part a bit on OnShape (totally chuffed that I managed to figure out how to do it!) https://cad.onshape.com/documents/434eeed77f9bec57175e4121/w/aa950f3009f2d1117363b4e0/e/9db7bc1053b66344b80e3acf Here is a picture of the finished part, with spring and screw eye mount added. The pen mount is bent bailing wire and the zig zag allows easy length / pressure adjustment. https://photos.app.goo.gl/bttiNAcjtr9NTfCy2

jamesnewton
Fri, 13 Oct 2017 00:35:01 GMT

Oh, I should mention, this is the job that does the work... it does require 2.1.4 at least. And there are some intermittent issues, but I'm sure they will be fixed in future DDE releases. https://github.com/cfry/dde/issues/15#issuecomment-335647736