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Hypercube Print & Plot Carriage

by uiguig
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# Print & Plot Tool Holder

## Overview

With this 2-in-1 tool holder, one can print and plot without swapping the tool mounts !
The only move between the two is to lower or higher the pen in its holder to make it touch the surface or not.
With this carriage you can plot parts at full 1:1 scale before you print them ! It can even plot itself :)
Of course, this is better suited for large-sized implementations of the Hypercube, which allow support for full-size paper when plotting

## Swap modes

To swap from 3D-Printing to Plotting, simply lower the pen so that the tip is lower than the extruder's. Then, home manually to a position where the pen's tip is in contact with the surface. Finally, "print" the Gcode file of the drawing to plot.

## Generating Gcode files

The most effective way i found is to use the Gcode tools add-in for Inkscape. It has a "path-to-gcode" option that works out of the box with this setup !
Just remember to convert the Inkscape drawing's ent
Source
Thingiverse
What you need to print this: Intermediate Low confidence
Why?
very large print
Single piece May need scaling or splitting
Supports 1/3
Assembly 0/3
Settings 1/3
Bed size 3/3
Post-process 0/3
Printer
FDM / FFF
File format
STL
Material
Min. bed size
300 mm (Extra large)
Software
Cura, PrusaSlicer, or similar
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