Description
- AxiDraw SE/A3 special edition with a central beam
- Modern, precise, and versatile pen plotter featuring an extended plot area
- Designed for use with paper sizes up to and including 11×17 inches and A3
- Comes standard with black anodized AxiDraw Outrigger Feet, the Italic pen adapter, and the XL pen clip
- Can write with your favorite fountain pens, permanent markers, and other writing implements
New version: Bantam Tools NextDraw 2234 Art Plotter
The AxiDraw SE/A3 Personal Writing & Drawing Robot is a simple, modern, precise, and versatile pen plotter. It has the same extended plotting area as the AxiDraw V3/A3. In place of the central extrusion that makes up the body of that machine, the AxiDraw SE/A3 has a central beam that is CNC machined from a solid billet of 6061-T6 aluminum, and then anodized to a sleek black finish.
This heavy, rigid structure — it's a solid block of metal! — provides dramatically better straightness and stiffness, even compared to the already-stiff AxiDraw V3/A3. This design adds mass exactly where you want it: to the non-moving base that forms the X-axis of the machine. In order to keep the weight light where it matters, the moving Y-axis of the AxiDraw SE/A3 uses the same stiff and light custom aluminum extrusion found on the AxiDraw V3/A3.
Beyond this, the central beam and X-axis of the AxiDraw SE/A3 feature an all-new geometry for the rolling wheels, which provides more stable and uniform motion along the axis.
Common uses are:
- As a signature machine for checks, diplomas, headshots, etc
- As a "handwriting" machine for various purposes
- Digital artists, using AxiDraw to plot their artwork
- As a versatile fabrication tool
- The AxiDraw SE/A3 drawing machine, fully assembled, tested, and ready to use
- Universal-input plug-in power supply with US-style plug
- USB cable
- Tabloid/A3 Clip Easel (Board and clips) for paper holding
- Standard AxiDraw pen clip and XL pen clip
- Italic pen adapter
Performance:
- Usable pen travel (inches): 16.93 × 11.69 inches
- Usable pen travel (millimeters): 430 × 297 mm
- Vertical pen travel: 0.7 inch (17 mm)
- Maximum XY travel speed, rapid: 11 inches (28 cm) per second
- Native XY resolution: 2032 steps per inch (80 steps per mm)
- Reproducibility (XY): Typically better than 0.005 inches (0.1 mm) at low speeds
Physical:
- Major structural components are machined and/or folded aluminum
- Holds pens and other drawing instruments up to 1" (25.4 mm) diameter
- Overall dimensions: Approximately 26 × 19 × 5 inches (66 × 48 × 13 cm)
- Maximum height with cable guides: Approximately 11 inches (29 cm)
- Footprint: Approximately 26 × 5 inches (66 x 13) cm
- Physical weight: 8.4 Lb (3.8 kg)
- Dimensional shipping weight: 39 Lb (17.5 kg)
Software:
- Drive directly from within Inkscape, using the AxiDraw extension
- Alternative drive software: RoboPaint
- Compatible with Mac, Windows, and Linux
- All software free to download and open source
- Internet access is required to download software
Programming interfaces:
- Note: programming is not required to use the AxiDraw
- Available command-line interface (CLI) for shell-level control
- Available python API
- RESTful API available for full machine control, stand-alone or accessible by running RoboPaint in the background
- Simplified "GET-only" API available as well, for use in programming environments (such as Scratch, Snap) that permit only retrieval of URLs
- Direct EiBotBoard (EBB) command protocol available for use in any programming environment that supports communication with USB-based serial ports
- Code that generates SVG files can also be used to (indirectly) control the machine