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Rolling Plotter with lots of Possibilities
by GeoDave April 14, 2020
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Update 6/19/2020

I am currently redesigning the wheels & Wheel plate and adding spacers between bearings on the
wheels. Also the bearing count will be 8 instead of 16 bearings since learning they are not necessary for
the Wheel Plate. The spacers between the bearings in the wheels should solve my wheel binding problem.
I will upload new files after printing & testing.

Update 4/19/2020

I added 2 new TPU tire models with tread. If you are using 3d Printed tires instead of the O-Rings, these
should give a little more grip & if you add rubber bands to the wheels, these should help them stay on.
Sheet & Pipe Metal Laser CNC The files are: TPU_GrooveTread_Ring_FatBottom.stl & TPU_GrooveTread_Ring_FatTop.stl. I am also
redesigning the Carriage idler & motor Mount to give more printing width. The belt will probably need to
Metal Cutting Ability: 0.1mm; 6mm;10mm;
be a little longer, so keep your belt a little longer if you are using current design & are interested in more
20mm; Price: from USD25,000 printing width.
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This is what I call a Rolling Plotter that uses 2040 V-Slot for one axis and wheels with O-Rings & closed
loop belt for the other axis. I wanted to be able to plot some drawings larger and couldn't find exactly
what I wanted. The inspiration for this design comes mostly from a couple of machines similar on the
 openbuilds.com site. I wanted to use a little smaller wheels than the two machines on that site & started
looking for the
Search wheel size the lowrider CNC used on V1engineering.com
Thingiverse Explore site. I found
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https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3826801 to give me the basic size of that wheel for a starting
template. With the GT2 tooth gearing & O-Ring slots it doesn't look much like that now.
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The width of this machine is limited to the lengths of 2040 V-Slot you use. With 500mm lengths, I
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currently have about 370mm of travel along that axis. I have mine configured for the wheels to roll along
the X-axis & the carriage rolls along the 2040 V-Slot is the Y-axis. I wanted it that way for the X-axis to be
the longest. I have my maximum X Position set to 1000mm. The wheel distance could be more, but I
haven't test accuracy on large drawings yet.
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The build log for this design can be found here:

https://openbuilds.com/builds/a-rolling-plotter.9207/

You can find some more discussion about it here:

Tags https://forum.v1engineering.com/t/rolling-plotter-build/15389

dkj4linux is making a modified version of this design to use as a foam ripper. You can see his build log
arduino, CNC Plotter, fusion 360, penplotter
here: https://forum.v1engineering.com/t/lowrider-inspired-foam-ripper/8025/52

2 videos showing a couple of possibilities of this machine:

Pen plot of 180mm diameter Flower of Life Pattern

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Rolling Plotter using real closed loop GT2 Belts

Rolling Plotter with lots of Possibilities

by GeoDave is licensed under the Creative
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That same pattern being carving in a pan of baking soda

Rolling Plotter creating Flower of Life Design in pan of Baki…

Baki…

This design uses a 444mm GT2 closed loop belt for the wheel drive. I experimented with different gearing
also while waiting for the belts along with using a 3d printed TPU belt. The real belt works the best for me
so far. I may play with the gearing version again after releasing these files.

There is a BOM spreadsheet with links to suggested sites. I also included PDF build guide. The BOM &
Build Guide are unverified, so with the metric hardware order a few extra if you don't have these on hand.

16 - 6082RS Bearings are used for the wheels & the Wheel Plate connections which are 22mm outer
diameter. I built my rolling plotter using 22.5mm for bearings to fit in. There are 3 test prints for checking
the size that best works for your printer. I only created STL files for the 22.5mm size which worked good
for me. It also allows me to get those bearings out which I did a lot while testing this machine. If you want
a different size or want to change part of the design, the included Fusion 360 Archive file
RollingPrinterComplete_Assembly_v4.f3z you can edit to change it. I also included a sketchup file
RollingPrinterComplete_Assembly_v4.skp for those that like sketchup or an easier way to view the
assembly.

The test print parts you want to print are:

BearingInsertTest_22_5.stl

BearingInsertTest_22_4.stl

BearingInsertTest_22_3.stl
 The wheel bolts & O-Rings are the only non metric items in this build, but there are alternatives to what I
used. Search
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Wheel mount bolts, you can use either 5/16"x2"
Explorebolts, 5/16" washer
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hardware.

#327 or #328 O-Rings are used for the tire tread as I have seen on some other designs. I used #327 as
that is what I had, but #328 should be a better fit & not need to stretch as much to fit the wheel grooves.
The wheels for these are: Wheel_Plate_22_5_Rev8.stl

For that want to use metric O-Rings, the closest match should be:

4.5CSx47IDx56OD or 5.0CSx47IDx57OD but not tested

For 4.5mm CS o-Rings use 4_5_mmCS_Oring_ShallowWheel_60mm_88T.stl

For 5.0mm CS O-Rings use 5_mmCS_Oring_ShallowWheel_60mm_88T.stl

The 4 idler bearings for the closed loop timing belt I used F695zz Mini Metal Double Shielded Flanged
Ball Bearings as those worked best for me. It is a small space they are in, so you don't want them too big.
You can try other types of ilder bearings, but these still moved freely even after tightening the M5 screws
tight.

For the electronics, I am using a MKS Gen 1.4 board with DRV8825 drivers and a spare Meanwell NES-
350-12 P/S which is overkill for this machine. A 12v 6amp - 10 amp P/S should be sufficient. I am planning
to eventually use https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4226726 for a portable P/S. The 2 limit switch boards
for the X & Y axis. There is no Z-axis, but a servo that controls the Pen Up/Pen Down. I am using Klipper
firmware with octoprint running on a raspberry pi. I started off using Marlin, but couldn't get the servo to
work in sync with the X/Y movement. Grbl firmware compatible boards are also an option with this
plotter. I have only setup configuration files for Klipper & Marlin. If you make your own Z-axis with
stepper motors, Marlin will work. For powering the raspberry pi instead of plugging into wall, I am using a
ravpower usb charger that seems sufficient for my raspberry Pi 3b+.

For the Z-axis with servo I am using this remix: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4276609 . There are
also a couple of optional mounts with that design that use the 28BYJ-48 motor or a Nema17 pancake
stepper motor. See that build for attaching that mount and additional parts you might need.

The Parts to print are:

2 Wheel_Plate_22_5_Rev8.stl

4 Oring_ShallowWheel_60mm_88T_22_5.stl

(Alternative to 3d print tires with TPU instead of buying the O-Rings)

8 TPU_Tire.stl

2 GT2_218T_Belt.stl (Print in TPU or purchase 2 - 144mm Length GT2 Belts)

1 Carriage_IdlerPlate_Top.stl

1 Carriage_MotorMount_Top.stl

4 VSlot_Corner.stl (or purchase aluminum or cast corners)

1 Carriage_LimitSwitchBottomMount.stl

1 Wheel_LimitSwitchMount.stl

1 LimitSwitch_Spacer_4x.stl

1 6mmPlate_With_BeltClamp.stl

If you are using openbuilds Gantry Plate, you will need to also print

1 Carriage_BeltConnect.stl (Used with openbuilds Gantry Plate)

1 Carriage_BeltConnect_M.stl (Used with openbuilds Gantry Plate)

1 RiPi3B_Mount_M.stl

(Optional parts if using MKS board & Meanwell P/S)

1 M3_Spacer_4x.stl

1 MKS_V_Mount.stl

1 NES_350_V_Support.stl

All the parts above I printed with 4 Perimeters, .2mm Layer height & 50% infill with the exception of the
limit switch mounts & electronics mounts I printed with 3 perimeter, .2mm Layer height & 20% infill with
eSun PLA+. The TPU parts I printed using TPU from zyltech.com

The klipper configuration file is in the zip file RP_200411_Servo_Z_Dual_X.zip. Extract file & change the
file name to printer.cfg before uploading it to the raspberry Pi. Klipper Install Link on Github:
https://github.com/KevinOConnor/klipper

There are also some youtube videos of installing this.

The Marlin configuration file is Marlin-2.0.4.4.zip

With the Klipper firmware I redefined the G11 & G10 gcode to be Pen Up (G11) & Pen Down (G10). I edit
the Gcode file by hand to change the file as I haven't found a better way to do this yet. If you are using
Grbl this is probably an easier task, but I am not familiar with how that works.

If you want to use Grbl firmware with this using an arduiono Uno or similar board, I would suggest
looking at the guide with https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2349232 drawing bot.

There is a lot here & sure I missed something. Look over the BOM spreadsheet & build guide before
printing any of this to make sure you can get all the parts you need.

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