Climb vs conventional, definitive guidelines anyone?

Autodesk Fusion 360, MasterCAM, EstlCAM, BobCAD/CAM — all are closed source, and none are documented in such a way that someone who doesn’t use said tools can take advantage of the algorithms — I think I’ve only found one opensource toolpath tool, and it works in Grasshopper in Rhino3D:

FWIW, I’ve been working through this myself:

and will hopefully be making some test cuts before the day is out.

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