Would it be easy to create an option to set stock to round? I am using a collet block on a vise and would like this feature. Thank you guys for all you do.
I second this request! 
doing this “visually” isn’t terribly difficult. accounting for round stock in the current operations code base … not so much. this is definitely on my list.
I hope to start looking at “rest” machining in the next month or so. this means operations have to be aware of what happened before and what material remains. that ability will make supporting arbitrary stock much, much easier. I would like, as part of that, to be able to import any arbitrary STL/OBJ/mesh for the stock as well as exclusion zones (import and place meshes for clamps, etc)
what I would like to avoid is a lot of new code that takes only two cases into account: rectangular prism and cylinder. that is guaranteed to complicate the code at least as much as doing it the right way.
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That would be awesome, if I understand you correctly:
You can do a rough with like a 6 mm bit first then make the remaining stock a bit more detailed with a rough of like 2 mm without having to process alle the removed stock first. and then you can go in for a contour with a really fine bit.
that would improve milling time a lot!
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Ok, I would be happy with rest features. Thank you.