shaft + holder avoidance - specify alternate model

[Rob.Lockwood]

This suggestion has benefits in several areas.

Allowing users to specify an alternate model for shaft + holder avoidance would allow the inclusion of fixtures and clamps to be checked for collision and automatically trimmed/tilted/kept away from without having to include them in toolpath generation only to use containment methods to exclude them from toolpath calculation.

It also would allow advanced users to specify a surface that is otherwise occluded by the model itself for toolpath generation, while still using the model for avoidance purposes. This is mainly useful for multi-axis tilting.

[Laurens-3DTechDraw]

Now you mention it, the shaft and holder can already avoid things. So maybe this can be used/implemented for the actual cutting moves to avoid fixtures.

[Rob.Lockwood]

@fonsecr maybe chime in here too while al's visiting.. @al.whatmough