Robotic drawing part 2



I had a very frustrating time trying to get the 3D printer to start my print. First, I struggled to find Pronterface, and once I finally got it running, my original print was too elaborate to work. So, I decided to try the butterfly design instead, which turned out nicely. 



different parts of the butterfly needed different settings, so I had to adjust that in Grasshoper. 


As I was figuring out how to work with the printer and Pronterface, I kept sending the pen too far and knocking it off the bed lol.


I ran into a scaling issue, I don't know the reason, however. The design was the right size, but when I imported it into Pronterface, the file would shrink

 THENNN! Rhino and Grasshopper were sending the stream to the wrong files. Every time I hit "stream destination" and tried to resave, nothing changed. After an hour of troubleshooting, I had to take a break!

Once I figured things out and resized the file, I started printing. But after an hour of printing, I realized the design was too big for both the printer bed and the paper.







I resized it again, but I must have accidentally moved the paper, which caused parts of the design to be misaligned.




I’m going to try again today and make sure I get the right size this time!

I'm really excited to make this work, it looks so pretty already!!!


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