Part 2 - Super Easy 3D Printed Arduino CNC Drawing Machine - The Software | GRBL | Inkscape Plotter
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ส.ค. 2020
- Learn how to upload and configure GRBL to your Arduino CNC machine. I'll also help you test it and then show you how to create your own artwork. 👇 More info below 👇
Part One for this project (which guides you through the 3D printing and assembly) can be found here: • Super Easy 3D Printed ...
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List of items used in this project and where to find them:
■ 8 x15 x 45mm Linear Bearing (x2): geni.us/LinearBearing45mm
■ 8 x 15 x 25mm Linear Bearing (x1): geni.us/LinearBearing25mm
■ 12v Nema 17 stepper motors (x2): geni.us/StepperMotor
■ GT2 Timing belt and pulleys: geni.us/TimingBelt5m
■ Micro servo (x1): geni.us/MicroServo
■ Elegoo Arduino Uno (x1): geni.us/ArduinoUno
■ Nuts, bolts and screws (See list below): geni.us/NutsAndBolts
■ Stepper drivers - TMC2208 (x2): geni.us/TMC2208
■ Contact switch (x2): geni.us/ContactSwitch
■ Arduino CNC Shield (x1): geni.us/ArduinoCNCShield
■ 30mm 5V Fan (x1): geni.us/30mm5vFan
■ 8mm Chromed Steel Rod (35cm x2 & 5.5cm x1): geni.us/8mmChromedSteelRod
■ 30cm long linear rail with block - MGN12H (x1): geni.us/LinearRail300mm
■ Electrical wire: geni.us/22AWGWire
■ 12v power supply - 2A or greater (x1): geni.us/12VPowerSupply2A
■ Barrel Connector - Female (x1): geni.us/FemalePowerBarrel
■ 6mm Idler Wheel - 3mm Bore (1): geni.us/6mmIdlerWheel3mmBore
■ Wooden panel to mount project at least 36x42cm (I used an Ikea ‘LÄMPLIG’ chopping board)
■ Sharpie Pens: geni.us/Sharpie
■ 3D Printer Filament: geni.us/3DJake
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Nuts, bolts and screws needed:
■ M5 x 25mm (x2)
■ M3 x 18 (x3)
■ M3 x 12 (x2)
■ M3 x10 (x3)
■ M3 x 6 (X14)
■ M3 nuts (x9)
■ M5 nut (x1)
■ Short wood screws (x8)
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■ Bosch Bit Driver: geni.us/Bosch-Screwdriver
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The drawings I created for use with my machine:
geni.us/EtsyCNCDrawingFiles
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Aputure Amaran HR672C: geni.us/AputureAmaranHR672C
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Disclaimer:
This video is shared for demonstration purposes only. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
If you missed part one, covering the 3D printing and assembly you can watch it here: th-cam.com/video/XYqx5wg4oLU/w-d-xo.html
Really amazing, how big can you make this, A2, A1 size?
@@unrealone1 I worked on keeping the cost down with this design so I don't think you could go much larger than A3 in landscape orientation. The side to side axis can be increased substantially but the back and fourth in it's current design is not suitable for extending much.
would you please consider DIY Laser CNC?
Thanks in advance
@@TheErixcode I've always wanted a CNC laser. It's on my list of projects to research and design but I'm afraid it's not near the top of the list at the moment.
@@DIYMachines what is at the top of your list, love your videos btw!
Great walkthrough and impressive mastery of the subject!! Thank you!
Best videos I ever watched about how to make CNC Machine , specially it's AxiDraw CNC Machine .
Really well done...looking forward to making this as a practice for a cnc router. You've earned a new subscriber
Just finished a diy cnc pen plotter. I 3D printed my parts based loosely on Mr. Innovatives design. It was a lot of work to get everything dialed in. Your software instruction are the best. Although when using inkscape I had to use a scaling factor even though I was using mm units.
Very stylish, efficient, complete, précise presentation, like part 1! Thanks! Great job! Above hte other (dozens) of maker vidéos around in YT.
Very cool!
Here's an idea that should be challenging!
Adapt in place of the pen, an inkjet system, (using common parts of inkjet printers), simulating a DTG printer, with the head moving in both axes, contrary to the printer that the head moves in only one
very nice, detailed and noob friendly, I'll definitely going to use this project to build mine, thanks
I was troubleshooting my servo motor for the whole day because I thought it was not working. But when I saw your video, I realized where I was wrong and had figured out how to make it work! Your video helped! Thank you so much!
Glad it helped. What was the error you were having?
Great job with the design and the instruction videos. Cheers !
Thanks 👍 You're welcome.
Interesting project!...I guess you can make this larger to print A3 etc ??? longer rail etc Laurie
I'm going to build my own CNC drawing machine. Great tutorials! I'll make my own version mounting the servo on the slider. Thank you!
No problem, your not the first (a probably not the last) I know off who wants to build it that way. Go for it. :)
WOW! What an Amazing project!
Glad you like it!
Nice build! Congratulations!!
Thank you! Cheers!
This is brilliant! You sir are a genius!
Thanks Toby.
Thank you so much for this insightful video!!
You're welcome Luuk.
Really cool -- I wonder how much this can be scaled up? Say, if I wanted something that could draw on a surface 3 foot by 4 foot? Just a matter of longer rails & belts?
It is so funny that you posted this right now. For the past week I have been thing about building one of these on my own!
I really like the concept of converting such an analog process (writing) into something controllable.
Your use of writing on the phone case seems like an awesome idea!
Thanks Trevor, that is great timing. I did it for the same reason but thought out in reverse, I wanted to see something as digital as GCODE generate what traditionally is analog (the handwriting). :)
I've been using the phone case eversincme it drew it and feel I little proud of it every time I see it.
@@DIYMachines I am planning on making a slightly modified version. If you'd be interested I can show you the results when it's finished.
Trevor Clarke That would be great to see what you do with it.
I've seen a few projects like this one but this is by far the best presented. I actually think I can build this. Thanks so much for that. I'm interested in using it to make PCB's without the need for toner transfer. Any hints along those lines are appreciated. I'm learning Kicad now.
Hi Mark. Thanks fo the kind words. :) I'd love to offer you some PCB advice but as it turns out I have just started to learn Kicad myself only just this week. I hope to make a project with a PCB in the future.
I feel like Dr. Emmet L Brown: „I did make my first functioning drawing machine!“
Works. Needs some refinements but basically works as promised.
Thanks a lot for the detailed videos.
You should have covered more on converting simple colored drawings.. and how u made the infill into thin lines....
Amazing video, thank you~!
Absolutely wonderful! I will build this! Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaank you!
Hope you enjoy it!
Nice Job. How do you create the infill once you create your drawing in Inkscape.
just perfect.. thank you so much sir..
Explanation couldn't be better kudos bro👍
Thank you so much 😀
#great job .wow how amazing is this for me i can't explain to you man .only i can wow and so awesome so meaningful for me as a researcher cnc projects for me
This should also work nicely with an old 3d printer mainboard. I have an old ender 3 mainboard which is basically an Arduino with stepper drivers...maybe I found a use for it 😁
Is it possible to adjust the rate at which the pen drop/lift servo operates? I'd like to be able to use a more delicate pen but I feel that the servo drops the pen too quickly and may break the pen. Absolutely love this project! thanks!
Nice video. Great instructions. Mahalo for sharing! : )
Thanks for watching!
This amazing. Thank you so much
You're so welcome!
good explanation, thanks.
Nice video, thank you
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No problems Marcel. :)
Hey you are awesome tutor thank you! I have a question can’t we use an sd card to put the gcode to our arduino?
Would it be possible to turn this into a vinyl cutter by adding a spring to the pen holder rod and using a swivel knife?
Very nice Video Thank! Sir, do you know a way to change the servo speed? the standar configuration is a little slow for my Project. I know the way to go is changing the PWM freq. but maybe ther´s some easier way.. Thanks again
Good vídeo. Is amazing. One question, can yo paint planes if architecture?
This is a great video.
Thanks Casper. :)
Hello great project i had a couple of issues getting Inkscape on my MacBook, and connecting it to chilipeppr with the json port, luckily I have had a pc to which I could get Inkscape and make chilipeppr work, I was wandering if there was another alternative to chilipeppr preferably not an online app and how I could make Inkscape work on my Mac, also how do you create infill in your drawing using Inkscape?
amazing work, thank you for sharing, can you plz show me how to find configuration file, setting code for grbl i didn't find it... thank you...
Hey guys and mister DIY machines! Thanks for inspiration. I loved it so much i went ahead and built this contraption myself. Everything was done properly and everything seems to work fine. But I have got a problem. Whenever I try to load up g code it only goes through couple lines and stops. My question is if you know what the problem could be. Thanks in advance for response.
If anyone is finding that their XY motors are only moving the pen around 40% of the area that they should be; I had to change both lines $100 and $101 from 40.000 to 100.000 in the GRBL setup document. That sorted it for me so that the X and Y are at the correct scale.
great job,Keep share knowledge
Thank you, I will
CAN YOU TRIPLE LIKE A VIDEO??
You are amazing =)
Best regards, from Colombia!!
Nice work
The two videos in this series were great. Would you be able to use this CNC to draw the traces on a piece of copper-clad circuit board before etching it?
I suppose you could - though I have not tried.
Hi Lewis, thank you very much indeed fro your tutorials, very well done! I got a lot of fun building the CNC drawing machine and now I'm facing an issue while I'm loding on Arduino UNO the grbl-mi I got the error listed here below. Any suggestion about to solve the error? Many thanks
the fatal error: grbl.h: No such file or directory
# include
^~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
exit status 1
Compilation error: grbl.h: No such file or directory
How can I change colour of leds in shelf edge clock
Do make a video on that pls
Coz I'm new to this field and my leds is showing only red colour
Grats. Good job.
You're welcome.
I am really enjoying the results I get from this, very accurate. I am unfortunately getting an Inkscape crash whenever I try to use the gcode extension on an SVG file with lots going on. Simpler designs convert with no problem and look great on the finished paper. Is there any work around for a big load of gcode that needs creating? In smaller parts perhaps?
Can you layer it?
Hello, my servo motor works, but the two stepper motors don't. When I try the $H command I get the alarm "Homing Fail", the motors do not move or give any sign of life. I am using proper font and TMC2208 drivers. Thanks in advance!
Your awesome man
Thanks!
hi sir nice tutorial, what if i want to use solinoid? do i need to change parameter in grbl? thank you
Do you know if there is an updated Inkscape extentsion (MI GRBL Z-AXIS Servo Controller) that works on latest Inkscape release?
Hi, I wanted to congratulate you on the project ... it's really crazy!
I scrupulously followed the step-by-step video instructions, but I encountered 3 "problems":
1) Right / left swing of the pen (slight, but prevents small details);
2) Up / down swing of the Y when the servo clicks or in extension beyond 50%;
3) Using the square procedure only about half of the effective area is covered (225x250mm). The $ H procedure is successful.
I wanted to understand if the first 2 points are normal or not and how to solve point 3. Thanks a lot and congratulations again.
Thanks for the kind words BlackGeare, I'm glad to hear you managed to follow my instructions. :)
To answer your points:
1) This can be reduced by having less distance between the 3D printed pen slider and the mount it is on. Though too closes and it will not slide freely. A better solution is to mount the pen slider on two small steel rods. This would almost eliminate it but I one of my main design goals was to limit cost and this would have required more steel rod and an additional linear bearing.
2) This is something that has become more apparent to me since I published the design. Where the teeth catch the the main slider you could take the 90 degree edge of with some sand paper and make it more of a radius. As for the extension, this is another cost management choice. Ideally we would have to linear rails - one each side of the print area but this would certainly be a much bigger cost. To make up for this movement at full extension I designed the pen part so it can rise and fall by itself to compensate for this. A slight trade of win accuracy for a big cost saving.
3) To increase the printable area of the machine if it physically is able to travel further on each axis just create a larger document size in Inkscape.
I hope these points help.
Lewis
@@DIYMachines Thanks a lot for the answer. I fully understand the need to reduce costs and believe that the project itself is still great. To mitigate point 2 I have reduced the angle to 35 degrees, but I think the main problem is due to the "speed" of the servo movement (too lightning-fast click).
For point 3 is it better to have the origin in the corner (from $ H) or in the center of the print area?
Really awesome tutorial. One of the best explanations i've seen on here. Definitely subscribing. Just one question, I can't seem to get GRBL Arduino sketch to compile? it's suggesting i'm missing files that I am not missing? any help or thoughts would be great, please and thank you.
Once again great tutorial.
I’ve not seen this happen before. I’m very sorry but except for ensuring your Arduino IDE is up to date and the correct board type is selected I’m not sure where else to look. Can anyone else reading these comments suggest anything?
Haven't checked the sketch, but could it be libraries that have not been added?
Hello,
Firstly thank you very much for explaining all these in a simple way. I build the system everything is working well except servo. When I command "m3 s90" the ardiuno is resetting. I did a quick research and the conclusion is "I have to power the servo externally." but I couldn't find the wire diagram for it. Could you help me about how can I power servo externally in this project?
Excellent set of videos! Have you given any thought to increasing the size of the drawing area? Do you think this drawing mechanism would scale up to 1.5m x 1.5m?
Thank you David, yes I have thought about a larger one. The code would scale just fine. One of my main designs goals was low cost and as you go any larger than this the first increase is an additional rail and stepper motor to form a more traditional gantry.
Amazing videos, I am currently building my own Plotter and everything works, as you explained, till i want do move the servo motor. Nothing happens. do I need to change something in the grblmi files to use a servo ? I ran a test code in the arduino ide and there it moves the servo, but with grbl and "m3 s90","m5" commands it doesnt
Thanks for the well made tutorial! Any thoughts on how to make this plotter without the need for a base, it would allow to write on bigger and thicker surface. Also are the motor strong enough to write vertical? For example I set up the machine on a wall and it can draw. My daughter room's need some more artwork :)
Thanks Loïc. Goo question about making it without a base. I suppose for what you're suggesting you could attach it to a wooden frame instead of the board, but have the frame sit on the the topside of the printed 'feet' and screw in from below. This would then make the surface of the wall level with he drawing plane. Motor wise, I think it should be OK. Slow the movements down when you export the GCODE - that should help prevent any slipping of the timing belts. Most of the weight (the two stepper motors) is very central to the main machine linear rail on purpose to keep the weight on the extending arm to a minimum.
@@DIYMachines Thanks for the detailed answers. Still wondering the trade-off between all flat or longer pen offset but the lever the pen create might be an issue with rough surface. Got the IKEA cutting board already, but it will stay on the kitchen this round :) will go with your suggestions.
Good job
Hello I would like to know how the configuration of the micro steps in the cnc shield was made ?
Great job.
I have a question. I also made a cnc drawing machine. The main problem is when I create g code of any pictures or text g code generate according to outline of pictures or text. I want machine just take as single line how can I solve this problem?????
Excellent video, where can I see a tutorial to learn how to make color fills in inkscape?
This great you are awesome
Thank you
Hi,
now I made some drawings on that machine.
Some comments what I notieced:
Drawing in incscape is difficult for me. Did use a wacom tablet to copy a printed drawing to incscape. When I draw not only a single stroke but more back and forth with the pen then sometimes the GBRL extension makes a round circle out of it. Have to find a workaround. Or do only single strokes.
Some odd pehenomena is, that I draw some freehand lines and the machine via Gcode does exactly like I did with the pen. Same slow downs. But have to experiment a bit to confirm that behaviour.
Maybe I have to write a simple programme to feed the gcode to the machine. Then I can feed line after line under my control and when I want to change the pen then I can simply stop the drawing and change pen. Or redraw some lines. In case the pen did not work.
Out of curiosity, is there are printer driver (e.g., for CUPs) that is able to turn a postscript document (or whatever) into g-code and send it to the controller? What is the smallest distance the print head can move?
Very useful thanks ❤️
You're welcome 😊
Hi everybody,
I built (thanks to this amazing tutorial, a big thank you!), this machine.
The machine works, I could test it with drawings in .gcode format but the problem is that the Inkscape extension to generate this famous gcode does not work. After many attempts, python updates and other manipulations, this extension of Inkscape does not work because the lxml is not up to date and it is impossible for me to update it.
- Do you know what other software could replace Inkscape?
- Or if by any chance it is possible that the machine works with another file type than gcode?
I am using an iPad Pro to create the drawings and vectorise them. I was thinking of creating the drawings on ipad and then sending them to a mac book pro in inkscape to change the file type but maybe there is an app that allows saving to the correct format directly from an ipad?
If you have any clues it would be a great relief for me. I think I've reached the end of my skills in this area...
I thank you in advance for your precious help.
I wish you a lovely evening,
L.M
Is it possible you can do a separate video on downloading and setting up the software in Arduino
thank you very much for the video.I am wanting to handwrite lots of A4 letters, Will it be possible to scan one of my letters and then use your machine with the pen to perfectly replicate my hand written letter, so that it looks hand written?
Great videos. I have to try this. But I need to modify it a bit. I need to print on cardboard cylinders.
This should be possible by locking the pen arm and use the stepper for rotation in stead... or am I wrong on this?
Dont lock the pen arm just add two servos attached to two rods with bearings on one end in a support housing with, you may need some extra parts just do some research and im sure youll find what you need, even possibly a video explaining how.
@@b-rad7708 I did not explain my self very well. This is what I want it to do: th-cam.com/video/BLRfBk9yIbw/w-d-xo.html
But since I also need a flat bed plotter I was thinking of a mix.
Your plotter as it is but with the possibilety of adding a 4th axis
Sir,
Plesse recommend me some books that can help me to figure out the fundamentals of CNC Plotter/Machine...there are various kind of CNC.... I need to know the basics and then i will make my own designed CNC.....
However you're really a good... explainer...
Hi Lewis! Thank you for the wonderful tutorial! I have been following the steps to make my own plotter and have done well so far, but I have encountered a problem with the sevo.
when i engage M5 command it rotates infinitely (and very fast) unlike your video, and makes loud, high pitched noises .
and when i engage M3 command It doesn't move,,,
other parts are working well but the servo I don't have a clue,, please help haha
Did you solve it? What was the problem?
Hi, great videos. I’m nearly done building this but have a couple of issues. 1 noisy steppers and 2 I have had to set the grbl configuration to $100=5.00 x, step/mm)
$101=5.00 (y, step/mm) to stop the x and y trying to go outside the limits of the drawing area, they just fly off at speed! Got to be a config issue but not sure where to start. I have 1.8degree 200step motors.
Hello, and thank you. First question, which stepper motor drivers are you using? You are correct to adjust $100 and $101 based on your machine. Ideally have it draw a 10cm square and adjust this values up or down until what it draws is actually 10cm's square. Are you zeroing out your axis after homing the machine - if not this is like to cause it fly of at speed and make an uncomfortable noise. Check here in the video: th-cam.com/video/8scKLHz77Lg/w-d-xo.html. After zeroing out the co-ordinates in the top right of Chillipeppr should all read 0.
@@DIYMachines many thanks for the reply. I’m zeroing manually at the moment as I don’t have the end stops installed yet. I’m zeroing. In the correct place though! I’m using DRV8825 and the CNC shield
Is set to full step (no jumpers) if that is relevant. I’m drawing a box and it is just about the correct size. This appear to be working ok , just the steppers are noisy and I’m
Puzzled why I need to change the vales in the config file. (I’m using UGS btw)
Hi Lewis! All have been printed, but there is too much play between the pen holder and the plastic where it mounts, so the pen is not perfectly stiff/still when used for drawing. Is there perhaps another way to try and fix this? Any possibility you can share the design files?
So be grateful for your tutorial. The question is how to make a multicolored painting, change the pen after one layer finished?
Yes, exactly that. I also recommend rehoming after changing the pen between layers jut in case you may have jogged any of the axis whilst changing the pen. Rehoming is very quick one-click action. :)
@@DIYMachines thanks :)
I have the DRV8825 stepper drivers, would these be ok rather than the TMC2208?
What are the suggested pens to do fine permanent ink on plastic?
Nice. How to picture converter G-code as picture in video please
Hi Lewis is it possible to know when the printed parts will be available again
could you make one of these big enough to do sewing patterns? 1600mm by 3000m?
Great!
Thanks. 😊
Could this be modified to use a stepper motor instead of the servo?
Would it be possible to print barcode and text on a glossy paperboard box?
hi,will be there any new gcod extension for last version of inkscape?
Спасибо !!! Все информативно.
пожалуйста
Hi, Is there any way to fade servo. Slowly down and up movement. Do you have any idea for that?
Hello what will the thick ness of a pencil line to keep in the software because I dont wanna use sparkles
is that setting what is the part for the servo moving? I can t make it move.
can we write a document with this machine or just use it for drawing
is possible to have the extension converted to python 3 ( so the newest Inkape ) ?? thanks
hello can you plz make a video multiple colors generating gcode or any source from where we can learn that
hey @DIYMachines, i need some help, at the start where I am supposed to upload the sketch the program says "compilation error: grbl.h: no such file or directory" - What does this mean and what do i do??
Can it be used in architecture??......like can in draw architectural drawings from architectural softwares
If your arch software using gcode. I do not think that the arduino software know all gcodes though.
Could you design one that is modular? As in, be able to draw on larger surface areas?
You can increase the width without too much trouble, but the axis which holds the pen was never designed to be much longer. A big goal of this project was to keep costs down. I may make a larger version in the future but could not say when. Sorry.
Please tell me, is there such an opportunity for this device, not to draw the whole drawing at once, but in segments, for example, I drew one line and drove off to the zero point for a couple of seconds, then again drew another line and again drove off for a few seconds, and apply this action for everything drawing, yes it will be much more in terms of the time spent, but the fact itself is such an action possible or not?
Wow.can you please explane me that how did you make the gcode by using the inscape to take varius kind of colours of a image
I put the different colour onto different layers. Then exported each layer one at a time into GCODE. They are each then run on the machine one after another ensuring your home the axis after changing the pen each time. This means you don't have to worry about the layers of the image drifting if you nudge the head of the machine.
@@DIYMachines And how did you create the fill with mi grbl & inkscape? (Great machine by the way!!)
How to create gcode with more layers.plz explain or suggest some video.thank you
Hi. Do you have a link to the Gcode extension?
Hi, i love your Video!
I got a Problem with the scale of the gcode, its too small… how do I fix That ?
Does the preview in the Chillipeper appear to show the intended size correctly?