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 # Beeg Plotter
+Beeg Plotter is an (approximately) 1500x1500mm wall-mounted plotter, running Klipper.
+It uses a core-xy construction (two motors to control the movement) and a servo to control pen up/down on the toolhead.
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+The software side is effectively the same as Beeg Plotter's little sister, [Sketchy](projects:plotter). A few Klipper macros are used to make using it easier (e.g. changes to z are interpreted as pen up/down).
+# Drawing with Beeg Plotter
+You can connect to Beeg Plotter at http://beeg.local on the hackerspace network.
+## Generating gcode
+Beeg Plotter requires gcode instructions to draw, which likely will be generated from an svg. There are a couple of ways to generate gcode for Beeg:
+- Inkscape with [gcodeplot-klipper](https://github.com/averymcnab/gcodeplot-klipper)
+  - good for simple plots with thin lines
+  - see below for example settings
+- PrusaSlicer
+  - recommended for plots with any infill/width
+  - has a measly 1200x1200mm bed size limit
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+# Appendix
+## GCodePlot (Inkscape plugin) example settings
+These settings are a recommendation or starting point - you should at the very least double check the co-ordinate settings which should align with your drawing surface.
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