Cubicon single as a plotter

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These pieces enable you to utilize your printer as a plotter. It consists of a bracket that fits onto the Cubicon Single extruder, and a set of adaptors printed in Ninjaflex flexible filament that connect a pen to the bracket. I positioned it so the pen is 0.2 mm lower than the print head. The bracket also employs an M4 12mm screw and bolt to secure it to the print head. I used Simplify3D to convert gray scale images into 3D litophanes first, and with some post processing created g-code files that execute the plotting. Take a look at this video by Tech2C to get started. A couple of things to bear in mind: The plotter runs without heating the extruder, so you must unload the filament before using it as a plotter and disable the filament detection in the Cubicon Single configuration. Due to the Cubicon Single's auto leveling feature that starts at the beginning, you cannot place the pen at the start. A very slow y-axis movement needs to be added to the g-code at the beginning of the actual printing to allow you to put it in. You must ensure that the pen makes as little contact with the paper as possible in order to keep it from tilting when plotting. Attach the paper to the printer bed using clamps. Make sure these are not in the way during calibration at the start! You may need to adapt the flexible adapter to fit your own pens. UPDATED: The bracket contains support material (between the ridges on the inside) that must be removed. I added one .hvs file (g-code file for the Cubicon Single) to display the resulting g-code. Disclaimer: use at your own risk. Do not try this unless you know what you are doing! How I Designed This Designed in Onshape (link to design files).