Plotter, a ShirePath lab study
- Strokes
- 0 of 647
- Pen down
- 0 mm of 13.8 m
- Travel
- 0 mm of 1.8 m
- Pen lifts
- 0 of 647
- Plot time
- 0:00 of 9:05
Plotter
Pen down at 50 mm/s, pen up at 180 mm/s, and 0.2 s to raise or lower the pen. Plot time is the real machine's, at 1×.
Path order
Optimized, the pen travels 1.8 m with the pen up; as drawn, 32.9 m. That is 31.1 m less travel and 2:53 less plotting.
Drawing
Paper
The saved SVG has one layer per pen, numbered for the AxiDraw extension in Inkscape, and its strokes in the order shown.