I'm working on a project for a bottling plant that is trying to make a vision-based machine to detect cracked glass bottles before they attempt to fill them.
It seems that the vision & backlight approach is the standard way to do this in the industry, but the shape of the bottle in this...
Have you tried the alternate position view? This allows you to overlay another configuration over an existing view. It shows the alternate configuration in phantom lines - not sure if this will work for a part, but you can try putting the part in an assembly and creating configurations in that...
