Amanda's OBDF 310 A Process Blog

Making Him into a Poster GCode stuff  Resizing the boy once again to see what size I want.  Made him a bit smaller than the piece of paper I aim to use so that I can have some buffer/wiggle room.  Fix the sort curves Fix the draw bed Edited some values Changed around the colours Checking the code (NC Viewer).  Printing/Drawing  Okay, so this was a bit of a process since I'm fairly sure I was the first to draw after class (I did it before the break, and just before Peter sent an email saying there would be no support).  But I figured it all out myself and Geoffrey is glorious.  So, right off the bat...there were two major problems, the machine wouldn't move no matter what I tried and I couldn't see where to override the axis to move it around properly.  I looked it up and...I needed to move the motors away from the sensors because they were too close and the button to override the motors was under a different tab.  But, once everything was set...

Making Geoffrey into a Poster Step One: Get Geoffrey Step Two: Go buck wild with "Make 2D" Fun angles (what I like to call 'dog asking for/smelling food')   More full body Hats and Rage Existential crisis Okay, two drawing options.  Decided to go with the Jaws-like poster.  First, I separated out the one section I wanted to be filled (after cleaning up the lines, as there are always some double lines or just weird ones that are unnecessary).  I wanted to do an offset fill, but the file on Google Drive wasn't working, so I looked up some stuff and also somewhat brute-forced it.  Eventually, I got this.  After, I changed up the text so that I could do another fill there. I did the concentric fill, though, it did turn out a little janky and has these skips in them. I like them, so I left them.  Here is the finished boy! And the setup for the different colours of the poster.  (They aren't filled in because I still need to do some scaling once I figure...

 Making Geoffrey into a real boy Prep:  Separate the hatching on the hat (so that I can make it a separate colour).  Setting up all the codes (thanks to the shared ones). Oops...not to scale.  There he is.  Drawing timed booked.  Drawing: Okay...so... I really wanted to use this black paper I had, along with some white and metallic gel pens.  Small problem... It kept moving. This paper is thicker, so the magnets weren't enough. (I also suspect that I had the pen too low. But I digress.) Tape to the rescue!  (I did that thing where you stick the tape to your clothes before using it to make sure that it wouldn't leave any weird residue anywhere).  Here are the two separate gcodes successfully running in pronterface.  Progress Montage:  Minor problem:  The paper wasn't tall enough, so I had to add in another piece to make sure that everything fit. (I was able to easily wipe off the white gel pen from the printer bed, so no worries...