CGTech launches latest Vericut CNC software

Vericut 7.1 features significant enhancements to reduce the time required for manufacturing engineers to easily develop, analyse, inspect and document the CNC programming and machining process.

“A machine crash is very expensive, potentially ruining the machine tool, and delaying your entire manufacturing schedule,” said CGTech managing director, John Reed. “However, with Vericut, you can dramatically reduce the chance of any error.”

Machine simulation detects collisions and near-misses between all machine tool components and other user-defined objects. ‘Near-miss zones' can be set up around the components to check for close calls, and even machine over-travel errors can be detected. Machine movements can even be simulated while stepping or playing backwards in the new Vericut Reviewer. Once the risk of crashing the machine has been removed Vericut then provides ongoing savings by removing the wasted production time lost during the proving-out of new programs on the machine.

“Every machine shop has to introduce and prove new NC programs at some point,” adds Reed. “For most engineering companies around 15-20% of a machine tool's spindle time is allocated to this. On a single shift, this equates to one lost day per week per machine. Assuming the machine is charged out at a very reasonable £40 per hour, that's £320 worth of lost production time – for each machine. So, a shop with 10 CNC machine tools manually proving-out programs is losing around £150,000 per year.”

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