Line-us is a small internet connected robot drawing arm. This extension was developed by Anatoly Besplemennov to allow you to draw to Line-us directly from Inkscape.
The plugin uses machine co-ordinates and does not do any scaling, so refer to the drawing space diagram (link below) for details. Note that the Inkscape document units must be set to pixels (File/Document Properties/Custom Size/Units). For reference a sample drawing is included in the links below.
If you have any questions or would like to know more drop us an email at help@line-us.com
Drawing space diagram: https://github.com/Line-us/Line-us-Programming/blob/master/Documentation/LineUsDrawingArea.pdf
(Right click to save the file if your browser displays the content of the file)
Sample Drawing: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Line-us/Inkscape-Plugin/master/LineUsTestDrawing.svg
Special thanks to the Eggbot creators, complex part - the SVG parser - is based on the Eeggbots one.
And thank you the Line-us team, without the Python example this would be impossible.
One more way to connect:
- edit the line with address/port number in lus_parser_sender.py as below:
self._sock.connect(('192.168.4.1', 1337)) #the address seems to be constant in "Red LED mode"
- press a key on Line-us until the red LED will start flashing
- connect via Wi-Fi to "Line-us-Setup" net then the red LED will lit permanently
- now you can plot
Hello,
Thank you for providing this extension for Inkscape users!
This is just to let you know that most 3rd party Inkscape extensions, like this one, probably will not work with the upcoming new Inkscape version, the long-awaited version 1.0.
Here is the info you need to update this extension, so that it will work with 1.0 and future versions.
https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Updating_your_Extension_for_1.0
If you have further questions, you can contact Inkscape developers via mailing lists (https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/?all-lists), forum (https://inkscape.org/forums/extensions/), or the chatroom (https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_devel)
If you have already updated it, please disregard this message.
All best,
brynn