I've now ported my Matlab work on Drop-Cutter to C#. It can load an ASCII STL file and then run the drop cutter algorithm. Not trying to take too much on in the beginning, here's an example of the output with only two triangles as input 🙂 not quite there yet! (who can spot what's wrong?)
I'll do some nicer demos when I've found the problem. The algorithm runs significantly faster in C# compared to Matlab - and this is without a kd-tree or bucket strategy for finding triangles under the cutter. I've also watched and read some tutorials on threading (threading wrt. to computers, not machining!). This is an algorithm that should scale well on modern multi-core processors (have a few worker-threads running drop-cutter on different regions of the model).
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