Tools

This is originally for an embroidery machine, but it has some settings that make it flawless for plotters. Once you turn off the the connecting line, turn off resampling, and turn on optimizing, it effectively lets you use Processing as a whole but for line-based drawing.

This program produces a single continuous line from a black and white bitmap image suitable for use with pen plotters.

Interactive STL to SVG converter with hidden wireframe removal, coplanar triangle merging, and red/blue 3D anaglyph rendering.

Some control software (Cricut) can't handle lots of nested groups or large numbers of shapes. This utility processes SVGs to simplify the structure to one path per line color.

This script works with the Paper.js. The Paper.js is an open source vector graphics scripting framework that runs on top of the HTML5 Canvas.

This code generate gcode for drawbots, polargraphs or other vertical drawing machines. It takes an original image, manipulates it and generates a drawing path that kinda sorta looks like the original image.

Converts still images and webcam photos to squiggly lines suitable for plotting