Alpha 8 - Add support for ASCII STL files

• Add support for ASCII format STL files
• Add support for --direct mode for SVG files

Alpha 7 - Adaptive/Dynamic F&S for pockets

This release features dynamic F&S for pocket clearing in order to keep cutting forces constant.. enabled with the ---adaptive command line option

The detailed STL options have changed for easier use
-X show the STL from the front instead of from the top
-Y show the STL from the side instea of from the top
-Z -- drop the STL file into the "floor" by %

A new tool is now included, "gcodecheck". This tool will perform sanity checks on a gcode file, and it will create a "fingerprint" of the gcode. This fingerprint will be compared next time this tool is run and key differences flagged. This allows for a CI/CD kind of workflow for gcode generation (e.g. the tools in this repo, but the gcodecheck tool is not specific to anything in this repo and should also work with Carbide Create and other CAM tools)

Alpha 6 - minor bugfixes

fixed bug in CSV file support

Alpha 5 - bugfix release

Several bugfixes in toolpath generation in both 3D/STL carving and SVG 2D carving

Small feature in STL carving: There is now special code for roughing vertical "walls" more carefully (for example in text in artificial content) since tapered bits would otherwise leave a mess there

Alpha 4 - performance improvements for STL

Majority of the changes is compute performance improvements, for a > 4x speedup

Alpha 3 - Much better STL file detail

• Improved detail in carving STL files
• Reduced default stepover for STL files (to get more detail)
  (compute will take longer)
• Added command line setting of the stepover
• Added the -x option to split the output file into one gcode file per tool

alpha 2: Now with STL support

Now with support for reading STL files

Alpha release of toolpath tool

Very early release of a toolpath generation tool. See the Carbide3D forum for more info

this is tag "2"

First beta of the stl2png tool

This release contains the first beta of the "stl2png" tool