Geodesic from contour strategy

With the Geodesic from contour command, the track creation strategy changes to this mode. A contour has to be defined to generate the guide curve for the toolpath tracks.

When switching to this strategy, the Edit contour window appears. In here different contour search options with their specific parameters are displayed.

There are three ways to define or edit the guide curve contour.

	Search until Builds the contour while searching along the edges of a surface or other geometrical curve elements.
	Search to close Tries to automatically build a closed contour starting from the selected surface edge or other geometrical curve element.
	Free search Builds a contour between interactively defined control points defined on a surface, a surface edge or other geometrical curve element.

The found and wanted guide curve contour has to be confirmed with either the key, or by pressing the Accept button at the top right side of the window, after which the window closes and the guide curve is being displayed as part of the manufacturing geometry.

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