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Suggestions: Conical tip, use tool position for real time preview, add a preview of the stock #39

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The real time display while milling is pretty neat. But there's a few suggestions that I think would make it more accurately represent the state of the machine:

  1. Change the blue cylinder, which represents the tool / tool head position, to have a conical tip. A cylinder alone is a bit of an odd choice for this, as it can occlude the region of the stock currently being milled unless looking from the side or beneath. It may also be beneficial to make it 30% transparent or so so you can see exactly what part of the stock is being milled regardless of camera angle.
  2. Make the blue cylinder be positioned using the X,Y,Z position, as reported in the top left, and not be based on the start and end positions of the current G code being executed. It'd also be nice if it automatically interpolates so it has fully smooth movement, but interpolates toward the latest reported position instead of the future position (to be easier to implement). I may be mistaken, but it seems like it uses the G code rather than the real position of the tool head, at least with Wi-Fi, and the position of the tool head updates more frequently. Using the G code to position the cylinder causes it to jump around a lot and be less accurate as to where the milling is currently taking place.
  3. It may be beneficial to show a mostly transparent (80%+?) 3D preview of the stock itself. This would be parsed from the G code comment that is already inserted by Makera CAM.

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