RatonLaveur wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2019 6:45 pm
I like to look at it as the concrete foundation for a new building more than a natural disaster location.
Hey, you're no fun. It was Russ who wanted to liken himself to a tropical storm, I was just playing along.
Maybe a half built house, rather a half destroyed one, if you like. we've got the roof on but sadly half the tiles are pointing in the wrong direction.
Last edited by freman on Tue Sep 10, 2019 9:21 am, edited 1 time in total.
Yes the tiles are alternatively conventional or climbing. There a leaks in the roof. But hey...last summer at least we had good ventilation in the house
Sliptonic just closed the bug and the direct alternance of cutting direction shown in the photos shown here and in the bug report seems to be fixed.
This leaves the problem that it does not account for which side of the tool is cutting. In the case of the demi cylindrical surface all the cuts are in the same direction, that means that one side of the cylinder is cut using climb with the other is cutting conventional.
I suspect that with the OCL based tools which have awareness of the model, it should be aware of which side of the tool is touching material.
I've found one of the files that I used last year when posting this bug. Sadly the toolcontroller code got changed and trashed the existing tools, so I can't check back on the same job, as created and archived: it throws lots of errors even with a new toolcontroller.
I have added a new job ( job004 ) with currently valid tools and created a simple, course grained 3D surface path ( Surface001 ) essentially similar to what was posted.
This confirms that all cutting paths are now in the same directions and illustrates the remaining issue that this is not consistently conv/climb cutting due to the shape. The tool offers selection of Cut Mode but implements it inconsistently and in a seemingly arbitrary direction.
I think this could be worked around in this case by adding a boundary dressup and then doing the same on the other half with opposing cut direction.
Zig-zag, spiral and circle do give consistent cutting direction. Though I'm not sure I would want any of those methods to create this path in practice.
freman wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2020 7:14 pm
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This leaves the problem that it does not account for which side of the tool is cutting. In the case of the demi cylindrical surface all the cuts are in the same direction, that means that one side of the cylinder is cut using climb with the other is cutting conventional.
I suspect that with the OCL based tools which have awareness of the model, it should be aware of which side of the tool is touching material.
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Evening Sir.
Regarding the abilities and awareness of OCL, to my knowledge (not verified), OCL doesn't return a contact-angle for each of the data points. If it is found to be available, then perhaps in the future someone will apply that awareness to 3D Surface to make the smart improvement you suggest.
Thanks for your contributions, testing and feedback.
Russell
Russ4262 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 22, 2020 2:32 am
OCL doesn't return a contact-angle for each of the data points. If it is found to be available, then perhaps in the future someone will apply that awareness to 3D Surface to make the smart improvement you suggest.
Hi @Russ4262 is there an upstream ticket feature request for that?
Russ4262 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 22, 2020 2:32 am
OCL doesn't return a contact-angle for each of the data points. If it is found to be available, then perhaps in the future someone will apply that awareness to 3D Surface to make the smart improvement you suggest.
Hi @Russ4262 is there an upstream ticket feature request for that?
Sir,
I am not aware of one, but that is not to say it does not exist. I did not browse open tickets of any type.