{"id":1064,"date":"2021-09-21T22:37:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T02:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-428\/f2021\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2021-09-21T22:37:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T02:37:58","slug":"lsh-drawingbots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-428\/f2021\/lsh\/09\/21\/lsh-drawingbots\/","title":{"rendered":"lsh-Drawingbots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was particularly interested in the <a href=\"https:\/\/plotter.vision\/\">plotter.vision<\/a> utility, which is able to turn a .STL file into an SVG.<br \/>\nConsidering how much pain I go through trying to use tools like Make2D in Rhino, or creating a custom view to SVG script in Houdini, having a website that will just do it for me is really nice. I do wish I could get it to use the contours rather than the triangles, however I understand that would probably require significantly more work and processing power.<\/p>\n<p>The image below was generated using the tool.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-428\/f2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/plotter.svg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-428\/f2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/plotter.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1065\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was particularly interested in the plotter.vision utility, which is able to turn a .STL file into an SVG. Considering how much pain I go through trying to use tools like Make2D in Rhino, or creating a custom view to SVG script in Houdini, having a website that will just do it for me is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-428\/f2021\/lsh\/09\/21\/lsh-drawingbots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;lsh-Drawingbots&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-428\/f2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-428\/f2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-428\/f2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-428\/f2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-428\/f2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-428\/f2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-428\/f2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-428\/f2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-428\/f2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-428\/f2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}