Roland DXY-1150 pen plotter drawing the Adler steam locomotive
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- The Adler steam locomotive (1835) drawn by a 1980's Roland DXY-1150 pen plotter, a rather hectic looking and sounding fellow.
The Adler ("Eagle") was a German steam locomotive built to order in 1835 by the British railway pioneers George and Robert Stephenson at a cost of 1750 pounds sterling. It was delivered to the Bavarian Ludwigsbahn (Bayerische Ludwigsbahn) which ran 7.45 kilometre long between Nuremberg and Fürth. After running successfully for over twenty years the locomotive was scrapped in 1857.
The Roland DXY-1150 pen plotter is a popular computer printing device from the 1980's for printing vector graphics. It prints by moving a pen across the surface of a piece of paper, much like a human hand does. This means it is restricted to line art. To be able to draw all sorts of shapes the pen needs to be able to move across the paper on an X and Y axis. The Roland line of pen plotters have a specific design where the paper is fixed and the pen moves along both the X and Y axis in all directions. This is different from the HP line of plotters where the pen only moves along one axis and the paper along the other. The drawing pen is mounted on a carriage that moves back and forth. These smaller "home-use" plotters were popular for desktop business graphics and in engineering laboratories for technical drawings. Starting from the mid-1990's pen plotters were gradually replaced by high-resolution inkjet and laser printers. Surviving pen plotters have often been converted to venyl sign cutters.
Pen plotters in those days were beloved because of the fine continuous lines they could draw and were expecially popular for presentation graphics, as they could do color drawings with their 6 to 8 color pens. Moreover the pens could draw on transparency film for beamer presentations. No dot matrix could match that.
If i had seen this magical contraption as a child, my head would have exploded
Thank you so much for not putting music over this video. I always find it funny what the program decided to draw next.
9minutes well spent. :)
Regular maintenance is normal for any moving machine. I have been using my different pen plotters for more than 25 years now and the six I own never suffered any breakdown. Yes, they are not fast to modern standards, but back then in the 1980s they could amaze people by their drawing capabilities and speed. Talking about speed, maybe you should check out another video I recently posted of a IBM 6182 pen plotter that is capable of 6G pen acceleration. It is truly fast, and also from the 1980's.
Can you please tell me where to find the HPGL-file (.plt). I have a HP7475a plotter and would like to draw the picture myself.
look like the tool path is really not optimized.
Sorry, I wasn't notified you asked a question. Actually, the sequence on display here is quite intentional. To keep it interesting to watch I changed the order of the lines so it offers some more spectacle. It can be quite dull to watch if it keeps drawing in one corner for a long time to fill all the details.
@@Wepouaout he didnt ask a question. Lol
@@csxandamtraktrainlover2989 thank you for your question
@@DarcyWhyte ur welcome
Nice video! Brings back memories of me sitting in my fathers office looking at/listening to this 'magical' machine! (Or a similar one)
I see that you have posted videos on both the 1150 and the 1300.
What are the diffrences? Size? Accuracy? Speed? Or possibly all of them?
This is so satisfying to watch.... Thumbs UP!
I love it's sound.
It's like robots having sex. :D
A robo orgy ;)
lol thanks for putting that image in my mind.
1:30
sounds like dubstep, looks awsome!
Indeed, I determined the drawing order myself by setting the order of the lines in the drawing. It is not calculated by the plotter of the software. They are just ignorant slaves.
this is so cool, that's better than any movie
+Strom Speicher Ach guck, wen haben wir denn da ;-) I have such a pen-plotter, I should get it from my cellar some day at let it run ;-)
ha ha ha
honestly I kinda feel like a loser for wasting time watching (multiple videos of😂) something as mundane as this, but on the other hand there something so genuinely intriguing and awesome about this.
MrWosull Mundane😩
I always wondered this: ¿Why do these drawing machines draw like there was a random patron? It would be more logic to program them to draw without making those "jumps"
¿Is it to save time?
So cool. Can these work with modern computers i notice they all use serial connections?
Could you share the picture?
Yes, difficult to find, but look in Google for a Roland driver with the name d028220j, for instance by searching for:
Roland DXY XP d028220j
and the first few links will contain pointers to this drive on a Japanese Roland server.
scuse me sir !!! what do you use as software to draw ?? and witch os ?
@sexntuna
Yes, I think you are right, maybe it would. Right now it actually follows the original order in which the lines were added to the technical drawing by a human hand. The order can be optimized for drawing speed, but it would make the whole process watching this less interesting as it would stick to one point or a set of details for a longer period of time. Now it first takes shape and the details come in the end. Much better to look at.
The hardware is basically the same in terms of size, speed and accuracy. The difference lies in the fact that the 1300 has a fancy static paper hold (that causes the paper to stick to the drawing board on command), has a xy-coordinate display, offers more control possibilities and can replot a drawing by itself.
nice vid, great pic!
oKAY MABEY YOUR RIGHT but they are capable of matematicly calculate the most effective route .
They used these things to do early CGI in traditionally animated films... Before animators had the ability to integrate animation into a computer, they relied on these machines.
What if xy plotter and tracing light box merge
It's weird how it seemed like the order in which it was drawing seemed almost random at times and yet it had reqsons I don't understand.
This seems like it would be high maintenance and it is extremely slow.
As satisfying as this is to watch, what functionality does it have over a printer
True, but this isn't the mid twentieth century, and that one doesn't look like an antique
+JOSEPH WODARCZYK It drew nice and clean lines back when dot matrix printers had a DPI of ~72. There were also daisy wheel printers that worked a bit like a type writer except the characters were all on a little wheel that would spin and punch the characters. This gave you very nice high resolution characters as long as you only ever needed that particular size and font.
PCB etching is what I'm building a plotter for, so I guess for drawing on larger, thick objects that can't go through normal printers. And it looks hand drawn when you're done so that's kinda cool xD
The finished product has a particular look that cannot be replicated. It's a type of dying art-form.
Yes, this is the true live recording of the device at its normal speed.
hello mine is out of service yesterday the axis are not moving and the paper dont hold any idee ?
Not quite as fast as an HP sheetfed plotter, but you have to remember, HP's plotters had closed-loop servos instead of steppers, and they were a lot more expensive than these Roland plotters...
I wish they had multicolor pen for the xy plotters
I need driver for it.
Made me want to write a gcode-optimizer, there's a lot of travel motion...
These are the coolest things. Too bad they dont make them anymore
Any Chinese plotter board well do it 😂😂😂😂😂
Este plotter usando tinta china podria dibujar circuitos en placas de cobre en vez de usar impresion laser y plancha, donde lo venden ....
Oh god when it tries to draw a circle or even a curve it sounds like its crying in pain.
Just like god did when drawing your moms curves.
Uma impressora faz mais rápido
DO U KNO HOW FUCKIN SATISFYING IT IS WHEN IT DRAWS CIRCLES
Yah kitne size ki sketching kar sakta hai
Give me 20sec im gona peint it now, but not 9min :D
If you look at the internet you can with almost the same ?printer? but then as a cnc 4 axes bed do the same, even better you can at the same bed and a 3D printer head print all the parts, clean the parts at the same bed with a cnc cutterhead or cut the parts directly with the cnc cutterhead and you can build a working model of the Adler steam locomotive (1835).
The app I wrote to drive hpgl and gcode devices for Ubuntu/Mint does do a bit of sorting of the pen moves but mainly concentrates on sorting colors to allow many functions to be applied on a line color basis. Search on you tube for Tux Plot.
There roland dxy-980. question where to get the drivers and what sobremennye formats espouse. public programa draw drawing drawings then to draw on it. ie how to configure it with a modern twist
Do you know the difference between the 1150 and the 1150A?
Hello, can you share the image or the HPGL files please? Thank you
Back in the 1980s we had wide carriage dot matrix printers that would print much faster and were able to do pretty decent graphics. For anything 12x18 or smaller why would you use a plotter over dot matrix?
Just started mine DXY - 880 , took me loads of time! After all the effort I put in installing, I made it with WinLine, that I found on the web :)
Ploter is now running on Dell Precision 4600, connected directly to docking port (LPT port, but also it did work on the USB - LPT), at Windows 7 pro.
Thank you guys for the videos, I did not give up on my plotter because of them :)
1:36 women do not start thinking dirty things...
no its software matematicly calculates the most effective way to draw it.
Its servo motors ?
i had 9 pin color pen plotter
soo... its just a printer but slower??
does any one know whare to get the program for the roland DXY plotter? or does it worrk off any program?
I have the DXY 990. Planning to connect it to my old DOS computer with the green monitor.
B-size 11 x 17 inches
better and faster then a guy with a ruller and a pen! AWESOME!
Which software is using??
is this normal speed?????????????????????????
+resan ohm Yes.
wow !!!! ok , I think wow wow .........
I like it
Sorry, I wasn't notified you asked a question. Yes, this is the actual speed.
Never been sure why these things are enticing to watch, but they are!
At this speed it's basically my high school printer
Art.
Can you please provide the drawing?
is posible to print from autocad ??
Sounds sometimes like morsecode:P But still a great project!
so was this so expensive no one could afford it?
Anyone got a manual for DXY-1100 ?
They took urr juuuuuubbbbbbbbbbbbb
Why did video suddenly shut off middle of it...???
do you have win xp driver?
I bought 1100 version but i don't find a good driver for it!
Thanks
Regards
Simone
I want to buy please help from where
@@mevlutgezgin5164 Lots of programs will produce HPGL files which you can just copy to a serial or com port. If you really want a driver there is "winline" www.winline.com/
I am looking for a desktop pen plotter. Any ideas where I can find one?
They are no longer available in shops, but an online shopping site like eBay has a whole section on pen-plotters where various types are on offer. If you search the site for 'pen plotter' you will get there. If shipment of such items is a problem, or too expensive, you could also try placing a local ad or using a local market place website to find one.
+Ryan Davie I just got done building my own from dvd drives.. More like a CNC acting as a plotter... Only 1&1/2 in x 1&1/2 in plot area tho :(
+Ryan Davie A simple graphtec plotter can use marker heads to plot as in the video using vector data from illustrator or any other vector layout software.
I need machine
Ok it's cool
can you give me one pices of your machine
Man that is seriously old school! Brings me a smile of the days when I was in engineering, and think back to the old HP pen plotters we used to have in office. They were always an ungodly messy thing to maintain/refill/clean. Regardless of HOW CAREFUL you were you ALWAYS managed to get ink on your fingers and dress slacks
I used these for 4 years. Never had any issues with messy ink. Nothing was refilled, just replacing ink pens. Very quick and clean. The big question was - just how much were the pens costing at the time? My guess is that in 2022 money, the pens were perhaps $10 each. Came in packs of 6 or so. Each would last for perhaps 20No. A3 plots. They were only usually drawing lines, not huge blocks of color. Don't show the machine to visitors - it turns them into zombies for a few minutes :-)
I could easily have done that faster blindfolded with a pen in my hand.
MrExasperation The fastest camera I have goes up to 100 million fps, but Im so dam fast even when I do it at slow as I can so it doesn't capture it on even a single frame.
How to make gcode? Please ask.
Sir I want same one plz help me
HOLY CRAP!!
this thing is fast!
How large is the paper??
Why does it jump all over the place? Why not just work on one part first and then proceed along the page?
+Alexandru Dumbrava That's how the vectors are calculated. Unlike a regular inkjet printer the pixels are put on paper left to right, as the paper moves slowly in one direction. This is called raster printing.
The plotter on the other hand plots points on every shape in the drawing and calculates the shortest path between consecutive points. That is why the circular wheels were drawn together in the beginning of the video.
You don't get the point: The preprocessing is lacking any path-optimization. Apply Greedy or Lin-Kernighan and the same plotter does the job in
Sorry, I wasn't notified you asked a question. Actually, the hectic sequence is quite intentional. To keep it interesting to watch I changed the order of the lines so it offers some more spectacle. It can be quite dull to watch if it keeps drawing in one corner for a long time to fill all the details.
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That's a beautiful thing.
Where are you you buy and how many rupee
very long time..
Forty years ago !
now cnc can do it the same
man that is epic..so smooth lol
Like a little bird :D :D :D
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omg.
Did Roland actually make this plotter?
Sorry, I was not notified you asked a question. Yes, Roland made these and they still produce printers and cutters today.
I love this sound
Nice, but why a plotter? (I really think is cool) but why not just use a laserprint?
'Cause it's cool.
+Pedro Moraes Closest you get to a robot doing a drawing. A laser print is pixel based and doesn't have the same charm.
NEIN! NEIN! NEIN! I'M SO GERMAN!!!!!!!
What program do you use to make the images you print
Sorry, I was not notified you asked a question. In this case the programme is CorelDraw 8, run under Windows 98 SE which still has the proper 1980's/1990's printer drivers to steer this plotter. I still use CorelDraw today, but you can also use (for instance) Adobe Illustrator to construct the drawing. Any programme that is able to construct vector drawings should be ok.
it's real speed?
I can do that, hold my beer!