support blockers / enforcers.
All slicing functions shall produce consistent results with the same mesh, same transformation matrix and slicing parameters.
Namely, slice_mesh_slabs() shall produce consistent results with slice_mesh() and slice_mesh_ex() in the sense, that projections made by
slice_mesh_slabs() shall fall onto slicing planes produced by slice_mesh().
Before this commit, slice_mesh_slabs() projected bottom facing faces upwards to its coplanar slicing plane,
which is different from how slice_mesh() or slice_mesh_ex() work, leading to ignored support enforcer / blocker strokes.
for offset2() with clear meaning.
New ClipperUtils functions: expand(), shrink() as an alternative
for offset() with clear meaning.
All offset values for the new functions are positive.
Various offsetting ClipperUtils (offset, offset2, offset2_ex) working
over Polygons were marked as unsafe, sometimes producing invalid output
if called for more than one polygon. These functions were reworked
to offset polygons one by one. The new functions working over Polygons
shall work the same way as the old safe ones working over ExPolygons,
but working with Polygons shall be computationally more efficient.
Improvements in FDM support generator:
1) For both grid and snug supports: Don't filter out supports for which
the contacts are completely reduced by support / object XY separation.
2) Rounding / merging of supports using the closing radius parameter is
now smoother, it does not produce sharp corners.
3) Snug supports: When calculating support interfaces, expand the projected
support contact areas to produce wider, printable and more stable interfaces.
4) Don't reduce support interfaces for snug supports for steep overhangs,
that would normally not need them. Snug supports often produce very
narrow support interface regions and turning them off makes the support
interfaces disappear.
TriangleMesh newly only holds indexed_triangle_set and
TriangleMeshStats. TriangleMeshStats contains an excerpt of stl_stats.
TriangleMeshStats are updated when initializing with indexed_triangle_set.
Admesh triangle mesh fixing is newly only used when loading an STL.
AMF / 3MF / OBJ file formats are already indexed triangle sets, thus
they are no more converted to admesh stl_file format, nor fixed
through admesh repair machinery. When importing AMF / 3MF / OBJ files,
volume is calculated and if negative, all faces are flipped. Also
a bounding box and number of open edges is calculated.
Implemented its_number_of_patches(), its_num_open_edges()
Optimized its_split(), its_is_splittable() using a visitor pattern.
Reworked QHull integration into TriangleMesh:
1) Face normals were not right.
2) Indexed triangle set is newly emitted instead of duplicating
vertices for each face.
Fixed cut_mesh(): Orient the triangulated faces correctly.
Renamed its_create_neighbors_index() / its_create_neighbors_index_par() to its_face_neighbors() / its_face_neighbors_par().
New variant of its_face_edge_ids() to create edge IDs from face neighbors.
Fixed some incorrect use of _NDEBUG, it should be NDEBUG.
PrintObject::slice_support_volumes() returns newly Polygons, which are cheaper than ExPolygons.
Updated SeamPlacer and SupportMaterial to use regions defined as Polygons, not ExPolygons.
TriangleSelector::get_facets_strict() returning a patch with T-joints retriangulated.
New slice_mesh_slabs() - slicing projections of a triangle patch into top / bottom layers of slices, for MMU top / bottom segmentation.
TriangleMeshSlicer - use 64 mutexes instead of one when scattering sliced triangles into layers. This makes a big difference on modern many core desktop computers.
When applying MM segmented regions to input regions, the split regions are now re-merged with 10x higher positive offset epsilon to avoid creating gaps.
When testing for existence of paint-on supports or seam, use a more efficient has_facets() test, which does not deserialize into the expensive TriangleSelector tree structure.
GLIndexedVertexArray newly uses Eigen::AlignedBox<float, 3> for efficiency instead of our double based BoundingBoxf3.
Improved MMU painting refresh speed by optimizing generation of the vertex buffers.
Refactored MMU segmentation - projection of painted surfaces from top / bottom.
1) Parallelized.
2) Using the new slice_mesh_slabs() instead of projecting one triangle by the other and merging them with Clipper.
S3D's strategy for merging self intersecting models is "Even / Odd"
which PrusaSlicer now supports as an alternative to "Positive" rule.
Also added a "Close Holes" option to fill in all internal structures.
3D-Labprint Models aren't sliceable (till years) #3062#3708
