New Finishing Almost Done
Below is a shot of the almost-working finishing code. The big thing pictured below is that the threshold angle is now working (set to 20 degrees below)- I forgot that I would need to know the angle of contact with the cutter to determine the angle for both parallel and waterline finishing. This took another bunch of code and testing to get done. Also, the path linker turned out to be inadequate for the task and required a lot of changes to reduce the unneeded retracts. Luckily I’ve rewritten that so many times that it went really quickly.
Before I can release the new version I’ve got to add the code to find the correct forward step, the scallop height calculation that Randy mentioned, which should be no problem. Then I just need to make sure that mm/inch units are respected in the translation for the old ZMap code to the new code. These should both be pretty straight forward but there has been a lot of plumbing changed to get this code working so I’ll feel better after a lot of testing.