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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.

The software side is effectively the same as Beeg Plotter's little sister, Sketchy. 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
  • PrusaSlicer

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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