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  1. #1
    Join Date
    Mar 2004
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    Question for the Troops

    Ok guys,

    I have a new absurd project in progress.. In brief it is a 'painting' with an X/Y plotter mechanism inside and a bright light instead of a pen.. it plot from behind onto a 'blow paint' coated canvas... this part is easy and done being built..

    the hard part is software.. I have been using luberths's HPGL interpreter written in basic, and it works great with 1 file.. i cannot get other files to work well..

    anyone have any experience generating .plt files from a windows driver? this is the question...

    thanks,

    Robert
    Design & Development
    My Portfolio: www.robertguyser.com | CAD Blog I Contribute to: http://www.jeffcad.info

  2. #2
    Join Date
    Mar 2005
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    What is 'blow paint' ? did you mean glow paint?

  3. #3
    vfsi Guest
    You should be able to get an HP penplotter driver and use most CAD software. Just print from the CAD software using the pen plotter selection in the printers dialog box.

    The CAD software should be able to view many file types. Use a product like Traceart to convert Raster images to vector (dxf).

    Try this link. I found it using a google search. I haven't used this exact driver but many others should be available.

  4. #4
    vfsi Guest
    I forgot the link woops.

    http://www.winline.com/evalpen.html

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