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Preliminaries
0.1 Welcome to AxiDraw!
This is the user guide for the AxiDraw V3 family of high-performance personal
writing and drawing machines. This guide is here to help you get started. There
is a lot here — covering how you set up and use the machine, tips for operation,
details about the software, and pointers to additional resources.
This guide covers operation of the following AxiDraw models:
• AxiDraw V3
• AxiDraw V3 XLX
• AxiDraw V3/A3
• AxiDraw SE/A3
0.2 This guide is updated from time to time.
Both this guide, and the AxiDraw software are updated from time to time. We
encourage you to check back occasionally for the latest version of this manual,
and to check that you have the latest version of the software. You can also use
the Config tab of AxiDraw Control to check online to see if you have the latest
version.
Recent changes to this guide include updates to the current software version,
which is v2.5.3, new advanced features for plot optimization, plotting to multiple
AxiDraw machines, and an all-new version of Hershey Text.
You can download the latest version of this guide at http://axidraw.com/guide
Look at the front cover of the guide to find the date and version number of the
guide that you are looking at.
0.3 Copyright notice
Software and manual: © 2019 Windell H. Oskay, Evil Mad Science LLC