Pilot Pen Holder for Ender 3

I am too lazy to level the bed so that's why I've spent the last year or so reworking and improving this design.

In feature i will add images and examples of what you can do with it.

You will need a spring, I took it from a toy gun

Spring has about 34mm in height and 14mm in diameter. Pilot Pen was choosen, because it has different colors and widths.

3D Files: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5912499

The reason why I started working on this is because I had to hand in hand written essay/paper. So why should i spend 10 minutes rewriting it on papaper when I can spend unhealthy amout of time trying to make it "easyer"? Unfortunately I had problems with first two versions, because there were unprintable on my printer. So I had writen the essay/paper by hand and handed it in... Later, the third time I have designed the part from scratch and made it more durable, modulable and printable.

When it came the time to print it I hade same issuies as last time. The print resolution was terrible. I first tried to reach to someone who would print it on better printer as service, I was ignored by different people whom I asked (to be fare after some time I got one reptly, but that was late).

The other option left was to buy 0.2mm nozzle and try my luck with my printer. At first I didn't believe that it could succeed, but later, when I tried to print something with the new nozzle, the results were amazing. Yes the print time is kind of long, but the result is worth it.

So after discovering that my printer is capable of printing new iterations of my designs I got to work again.

Long story short, after many prints and redesigns, this is what I have.

Another thing that I have decided is to make my own program that will generate the gcode for the machine. I have tried python then I switched to c and used a library for parsing the svg paths but that failed. Next time I have used only library (libxml2) for parsing the svg file to the elements. This works but it was a lot of fun making, especially the part when parsing and making the arc command.

Code: Svg2Gcode

3D Files: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5912499

Code: Svg2Gcode

Some images