Coding ToDo

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ToDo

sorted by current priorities:

• support position object for groups
• support objects that are parented for position object and also for all systems.
• protect vertical fix & improvement
• finish bridges to work with more operations
• helical entry with more operations
• finish ramp entries to work with more operations
• mechanism to prevent memory overflows.
• some fun coding, do some work on crazypath
• machine simulation - do some real machine model simulation.
• some combined finishing strategy - e.g. cross finish that choooses 
• feeds and speeds calculator
• rest milling
• do a path which enables to carve with v or ball cutters so that these dive only to the extents of the outline, for fonts and fast decorations e.t.c.
• improve medial axis strategy by getting a voronoi library that supports linear or curved segments

• chipload computation and adaptation of speed by that.
• 4-5 axis support(if donations are high enough, I might buy a cheap 4 or 5 axis machine ;) so I can code support then)
• change structure of libraries, for better orientation in code, make more comments   done
• use rigid body branch of blender, then do combined shape cutters
• fix bugs and do a 0.6 release! -done!
• basic 4 axis milling strategies done!
• limit curve option done!
• bridges for cutout operations done
• chaining and chaining simulation done
• pencil doesnt work at all really yet.It's a skeleton of some future better code.not hard to make something of it, but currently no motivation.
• finish or test things marked experimental - neverending story
• improve performance - this is a never ending task
• add more options for gcodes to the UI 

• Use bullet collision detection is becoming the priority number 1. I think it could make the whole addon perfectly stable and fast.  finished!
• better post-processors library. currently heeks CNC nc library seems to be a good candidate  finished!
• export spindle speed finished

Ideas on performance and precision optimisation, or, what would help most if somebody with better programming skills can do it:

• another polygon library for offsetting and booleaning polygons. Currently using Polygon python library. Better performing libraries are Boost.geometry(boost used by blender allready, but doesn't have any python interface, and I guess the geometry module is not yet used) or the Clipper library. 
• Now there is Shapely in blender CAM. The big task is to get Polygon library out completely.
•  true mesh object silhouette algorithm - vector based(currently raster based for speed with high polycounts)  I did so far 5 (!) different silhouette algorithms, and none of them is better than the image based silhouette recognition... complex intersections ALLWAYS make trouble

From some of these changes, if implemented, Blender 3d could also benefit for other uses. Especially proper curve offsetting would be a valuable addition.