The template comes with 9 (named but otherwise empty) layers that are intended to represent the 8 colors plus water wash. The template also comes pre-formatted with a layer structure that may help save you some time in preparing your document. The template is pre-sized at 11" wide x 8" tall, matching the printable area of the WaterColorBot (that is, for a sheet of 9x12 paper, without the margins shown). and select WaterColorBot from the list there. To create a new document pre-formatted for the WaterColorBot, select from the menu: File > Templates. Setting up your file The WaterColorBot Template / Making a new document Ī WaterColorBot template is included with the software installation. The biggest difference between the these machines is that since the WaterColorBot can perform automatic paint color changes- unlike the Eggbot or AxiDraw -it requires that you use multiple named layers when multicolor painting is enabled. In particular, you may have had some experience with making a multi-color drawing, by putting paths that you want to print in different colors on different layers. If you have had some experience with those, you will find most controls to be the same. The WaterColorBot Control extension is based on the same software framework as the Eggbot and AxiDraw software. Special information for EggBot and AxiDraw users If you have an older computer and cannot run Inkscape 1.0, please contact technical support for special installation instructions particular to your system.
COLOR IN DRAWING INKSCAPE INSTALL
To install the software please follow the directions on that page. The WaterColorBot extensions for Inkscape are now included with the AxiDraw software installers. Users who have experience with the Eggbot (and its Inkscape based driver) may wish to start with this application, before trying the others.
COLOR IN DRAWING INKSCAPE PDF
Inkscape is also capable of importing artwork in PDF format (as well as tracing bitmap graphics to some extent), and saving as SVG graphics that can be used with RoboPaint. It will not automatically fill in any regions any region that you wish to fill with paint will have to have (for example) a hatch fill that consists of lines, in order for the area to be colored in. The most important thing to know is that the Inkscape extension will paint all of the paths (lines) within your drawing. Our extension provides a fine grain level of control over exactly what will be painted, but more-or-less requires that you create the artwork within Inkscape to take full advantage of the features. Inkscape is a superb, free vector graphics editor, for which we have written an extension (a plugin) to control the WaterColorBot. There are three main software interfaces for driving the WaterColorBot: RoboPaint, RoboPaint RT, and (as described on this page) the WaterColorBot extensions for Inkscape. 4.3.3 Preparing a file that does not need color changes.
COLOR IN DRAWING INKSCAPE MANUAL
4.3.2 Preparing layers for manual paint color changes.4.3.1 Preparing layers for automatic paint color changes.4.1 The WaterColorBot Template / Making a new document.3 Special information for EggBot and AxiDraw users.