Pen plotter for Ender 3

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An attachment for Ender 3 printers to convert it into a pen plotter. I couldn't find any on Thingiverse, so I decided to make my own. You have to set the Z offset to accommodate the height of the pen. Create a new printer with the same profile as your usual printer, but turn off the heated bed setting and set the nozzle size as the width of the tip of the pen. Also create a new profile with 100% infill, no supports, no bed adhesion settings, retraction enabled, Z hop when retracted around 0.5mm, 0C for material settings, no cooling, layer height can be what you want, and line width has to be the width of the pen. You can turn any image into a drawing using these websites: https://suncatcherstudio.com/photo-to-sketch/ To turn your photo into a black and white image. https://tech-lagoon.com/imagechef/en/image-to-edge.html To turn the black and white image into an SVG file. Use these settings or tinker with them. Line type: Smooth Pen(Vector graphics), Pen Pressure: MAX, Noise reduction: doesn't matter. https://svg2stl.com/ To convert the SVG into a STL file. Set the height of the STL to be the height of your layers.