Standalone softwarePen plotter software · in progress

Plot Twist

A desktop app for the AxiDraw pen plotter. It turns photos and generated patterns into line drawings, places them on the paper, orders the pen’s path and drives the plotter. Each plot is kept in a record with its pen and settings.

I made it for my own drawing on an AxiDraw SE/A3.

Plot Twist making a drawing: the Waves method’s settings, sixty wavy lines on an A4 sheet, and variations on the right

Preparing the sheet: the drawing placed on its paper, with handles to move and scale it, and the pen and layer settings

Ready to plot: the job, the sheet as it will be drawn, and the pen’s heights and speeds

Process

Tuning a pen: setting up a test strip to find the pen-down height