Drawing on my CNC

[monte55]

I decided I wanted to draw images of different sizes such as my clip art, which could be motorcycles, cars, any kind of designs which could be used as either wall hangings or banners. Also parts could be designed, printed on the paper and later someone could cut these out and use them as templates. My table can draw 49 in x 49 in without moving the paper. I made a holder for the Sharpie pen and mounted it to my tool holder and did the following drawing. The paper is 30 in wide. At 60 ips it took approx 28 minutes. I thought you might enjoy watching it.

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VCarve Pro -- Mach 3 -- Xylotex -- Homemade CNC

[Weldtutor]

Originally Posted by monte55 I decided I wanted to draw images of different sizes such as my clip art,

Very ingenious ink drawing method!

Thanks for sharing your video.

Great web site you have as well.

[mxtras]

Nice work, Monte.

I like your ingenious tension device.

Scott

[rlrhett]

Wow, you've turned your CNC router that you probably spent thousands to build into a noisy, slow plotter. Good job!

Actually, I'm only joking. What it shows is the versatility of these home CNC designs. Don't take offense at my snarky comment, the drawing is pretty cool. Also, it is a hoot to hear the motors without being drowned out by the sound of a router!

[monte55]

It took about an hour to record the video and I had to turn off all noise makers in my shop so to hear the steppers whine. I think everyone with this interest really believes this to be music. When you make your own machine and it all works, it's really exciting.
Nick


PS Also about 3 hours of editing. I wish someone would pay me.