boy1dr/3dwriter

Use your 3D Printer with a pen to write letters, birthday cards etc

3dwriter's Issues

Same process but revert

Hi @boy1dr !

Thanks sharing so much,
Do you know if it is possible to revert this process, as in :

• I write using a pen attached to a mechanical arm,
• the system detects the pen movements
• it saves them dynamically
• it interprets them into digital characters

This is not an issue I just would like to spark an open conversation,
Please let me know if you'd rather move this to another channel.

To big spacing on slanted letters

When you uses Fonts like "scriptc" there is quite a big gap between a capital "W" and the next letter.

Can I donate a better font?

Could you add this font to your webpage?

This font truly looks handwritten. Not too perfect

https://www.dropbox.com/s/noop8x4fd291sqy/emizfont.ttf?dl=0

Can't select 7.4 mm font size for some fonts, no precise font sizing allowed?

Only select fonts have specific font sizes, and this is a problem for me, I tested extensively and found that with a Font Size of 7.4 and a Line Spacing of 6.6 "units" (what is a unit in mms btw?) the words line up on lined paper perfectly, I wanted to write using a different font and sadly found that I cannot select the 7.4 mm font size with other fonts, meaning I'll need to figure out the perfect line spacing for EVERY font that I want to use with lined paper, if you know of a way to convert my line spacing to work with other font sizes, or for the other fonts to have a 7.4 mm option I'd be ever thankful.

Thanks in advance!

Feature Request: Sequential Numbering

I often have to engrave sequential numbered serial numbers on to circuit boards using a laser equipped 3d printer. It's a long shot but is it possible to add this as an option to 3dWriter? Currently I use an old VB6 program (Link Here) that generates serialized gcode that I can modify to work with a heavy amount of copy paste and find and replace. Not sure if this is in the scope of this project but I figured it can't hurt to ask. Thank you for such a neat application. It has really expanded what my 3d printer can do.

Font

Hi. Very nice project, thank you. How do I add new fonts?

Font format

Hi! Great Project!
We are experimenting a lot with old pen plotters, which were made for this purpose. For them we try to build own single stroke fonts, which we would like to test with 3DWriter but the fileformat cmf seems quite exotic. Do you have any information on how the included font files were generated?
thanks and all the best,
Felix

Installation guide

Hi,

the README.md is missing a chapter about "Installation" or "How to get started". I assume this is a VisualStudio project, but I have never used it and as far as I know VS is a Windows-Only software. Is there a way to get 3DWriter running without VS?

Best,
Felix

Can not write the words â ă á ....

Help me write the words â á ơ ...

"Unable to find the fonts in the Application Folder"

It gave me this error after I ran setup.exe

application wont open because the fonts arent in the application folder

I cant open the application when it is installed. It says the fonts arent in the application folder.

Modify text input window

Is it possible to modify the program to be able to enter text in columns? Each column would have its coordinates as well as offset. A good idea would be the ability to format text (align left, right, center, justify, etc.).
Currently I am entering text, setting coordinates, generating gcode, entering new text again with the appropriate offset, generating new gcode, I manually link the two codes together. It is a bit of a nuisance.

Are punctuation marks possible?

Hello, very neat software, thank you. I'm just noticing punctuation marks aren't showing in preview or during the actual print, is that something that could possibly be fixed? Thanks again.

How to automate

Hello, I would like to automate this in a webhook process. So that my backend can send the job to my printer using Octoprint is there any easy way to not have to use the GUI and hit some endpoint to get the gcode?

STL File for the pen holder

Hi,
that's a great job that you did.
Could you please share the STL file of the pen holder that you plugged close to the extruder, please?
Thanks.
Keep up the good work.

not working utf8

żółw

Turkish font

Hi. Thank you for this nice app. How to add or make new fonts, specially Turkish fonts.

Font Editor?

Any updates on the progress of the font editor? It'd be really neat if you were able to create your own font from your personal hand writing. How exactly are the fonts stored anyway?

Problem with directory

Hello!, I speack Spanish, but... I will try with English :D

I use this program in Linux, and as you know Linux has a different directory separator.

Backslash " \ " in Windows and Unix based use Slash " / " and for this reason I have a little error.

I can't install visual studio in Linux xD! but maybe you can put " Path.DirectorySeparatorChar " :D

Thanks and Regards!!

Great program! Wondering if how I might be able to add a font?

I know this is not necessarily an issue but was wondering if you could help at all.

I just printed my first test piece, blown away by how simple everything is. Thank you! I made my handwriting into a font using https://www.calligraphr.com/en/ for a project and was wondering if there is a way to import this into the program. I see the font files in \3DWriter-master\3DWriter-master\3DWriter\bin\Release\fonts. The file that calligraphr spits out is a .ttf file. Is there a way to integrate that into the program or is this crazy talk? Please be easy on me, the extend of my programming knowledge is from one class in Java 10 years ago and some windows powershell :).

Thank you, stay safe!
Jared

"Hardware Setup" Menu on 3dwriter.io

Having made an online version is AMAZING. Though, at the risk of sounding like a complete idiot, I want to report that it took me 3 days to figure out that on the online version you have to click on "Hardware Setup" to actually access the 3d printer options. I would suggest either making it open by default or making it look like a clickable button. Before figuring out that it was a clickable text, I simply thought that you had discontinued the 3D printer options on the online version.

Thanks for this project!

crash when text contains more complex characters

Great program - Kids love it. I am getting a crash however if i paste text from a website into the input box and press preview. I assume it is special characters related (like long dash - vs –). Attached are some screen shots and crash logs

Thanks

crashlog.txt

Unable to Find the Fonts Folder in the Application Folder

It gave me this issue when trying to execute the Windows 10 .exe

Print Over USB

When using octoprint or Cura printing over usb does not work. It stops in the middle of it. I think its an issue with the way the gcode is written

which 3DPrinter do you recommend?

Hi, boy1dr.
Which 3DPrinter did you use for 3DWriter? and is there better choies?

Feature suggestion: option to manually set offset

It is quite cumbersome to measure exactly where I want my text to go on a sheet of paper.
To make it easy, I've written a small portion of GCode that allows me to prepare text in 3DWriter without any offsets, then while printing it prompts user to position the head in a desired origin (in my case, bottom left corner of a small piece of paper that I use to label things) and continues print from there.

M18 ;Disable Steppers
M300 S440 P200 ;Beep
M0 Set offset and click
M17 ;Enable Steppers
M428 ;Offset HERE
G92 X0 Y0 Z0 ;Set temporary Workspace Offset
;Code HERE

;CODE ABOVE ^^^^
G92.1 ;Restore Workspace Offset

I only set lowered pen position to -0.1mm so I get some pressure (my pen holder has a spring so it won't damage anything).

I wanted to do a PR and add a toggle on the website, but this is not HTML version and I can't find a repository for it. Are you @boy1dr open to contributions to the .io page version of the program? I really like it and would love to add more features.

German letters

Hi! Could you please add the three german letters „ä“, „ö“ and „ü“?

This would make life a lot easier. :)
Thank you!

Continuously going up and down

Hi there! First of all, thank you for this amazing piece of software!
I have a strange problem.

My first writing went perfect, absolutely beautiful. But when i made my second writing (Gcode), the printer seems to go up-and-down between every point it makes, just keeps going up and down, he is writing tho but not in the smooth way my first print did go.

Now, i opened the 2 different Gcode files in Notepad++, just because i was curious, and i found that my second file has continuously up and down commands for the G0... the first file doesn't...

Screenshot:

In the screenshot you can see the difference. I played a lot with the settings in the 3dWriter program but can't seem to find the solution.. :-(

Do you have any idea how i can solve this? The settings i currently use in the program are as following:

p.s. I know i changed the pen up and pen down values.. :)

O update 11:32 - i noticed that, when i close the program, reopen it and change nothing and then click on Generate G code, it is perfect. Only when i make changes, or generate multiple codes, the problem occurs.. maybe this can help. :)

Thanks in advance, best regards, Joey