Simulate the entire CNC machining process with VERICUT 6.1! With VERICUT your shop can produce better results while reducing the time spent programming and machining.
In VERICUT 6.1, NC Program Review is integrated in VERICUT’s main desktop, using VERICUT’s desktop menus and graphics. An icon button in the NC Program window switches modes between the Info display and the Review display. When in Review mode, the user can navigate backwards from the last NC program line simulated. Error messages and NC program text is highlighted when a collision on the stock or fixture is selected. Entering Review mode adds Step Backward and Play Backward buttons to VERICUT’s other VCR buttons. The existing Step, Play, Rewind and Reset buttons also change to interact in Review mode, providing easy navigation through the NC program. Optionally, material can be replaced while stepping backwards, and then removed again while stepping forward, giving the ability to easily identify and closely evaluate problem areas. Both machine views and profile views are now active in Review mode, including an optional tool path line display in the profile view. Additionally, synchronized subsystem simulation (such as for multi-channel controls) can now be displayed in Review mode.
A new logger display shows messages in a scrolling list. Messages are organized by category. Each category of message can be blanked or displayed via right-mouse menu or View > Logger View Options. Selecting an error or warning message in the list highlights the associated NC program line in the NC program display. The logger display is a dockable panel and can be located horizontally within the desktop (as shown above) or outside the desktop.
Machine Simulation in Review Mode
When stepping or playing backwards the machine can now be animated. When this option is selected in the Properties dialog, VERICUT stores the machine locations for backwards animation.
Replace Removed Material to the Previously Cut Stock
Material can now be added back to the cut stock when stepping back by enabling this feature in the Properties dialog. 1000 backwards steps are stored when this optional feature is selected.
AUTO-DIFF Constant Gouge Check can now optionally check for a minimum amount of excess material relative to the design model. This is typically used where roughing cuts should leave a specific minimum amount of material for subsequent machining. AUTO-DIFF profile is improved to give more robust results on large and complex profiles where the design and cut stock models are nearly coincident.
VERICUT 6.1 has been enhanced to support the parallel kinematics of the Tricept head above.
MDI Dialog
MDI is significantly enhanced to include axis jog buttons and tool positioning by graphical picks. This can be especially useful during planning stages. Using the simple MDI controls, you can make sure your machine can reach all the necessary features of the part. Tool positioning includes offset values along the tool axis and side of the tool.
The MDI in VERICUT now includes axis job buttons and tool positioning by graphical picks.
Manage Machine and Control Configurations
Encrypted machine and control files may be optionally created and used. The encrypted files cannot be modified. Menu features are reorganized so ‘project-specific” settings, and ‘machine/control-specific” settings are clearly separated. When using encrypted machine/control files the machine/control configuration menus are disabled. If desired, you can also completely remove the machine/control Configuration menu from VERICUT’s main menu bar. These changes allow sites with many VERICUT users and machine configurations to better manage their machine simulation environment.
Turning tools with multiple inserts (such as ‘Flash” tools or other types of tools with multiple inserts) are now supported–including definition of multiple driven points. Each insert’s position is checked for valid turning orientation, and must lie in a valid turning plane before it will cut. Cutting limit checking (added in 6.0) is enhanced to include checking Minimum/Maximum RPM values. A new model choice automatically creates a milling tool’s gage location at the highest point on the tool assembly.
VERICUT’s CAD/CAM Interfaces make verifying NC Programs from within your CAD/CAM system easy and convenient. You can verify individual operations, a series of operations, or a set of complete NC programs. All stock, fixture, and design geometry is automatically transferred to VERICUT in the correct orientation, along with the NC program, tooling, machine and control data and other simulation parameters. The following CAD/CAM interface updates have been made in 6.1:
Unigraphics Interface- — merges tools from the UG session with tools in the template project file’s Tool Library.
CATV Interface — CATIA V5 users can choose how to apply the part operation’s machining axis in their VERICUT simulation by selecting the offset table (Program Zero, Work Offset, etc.) and relationship to the machine (tool, rotary axis pivot, etc.). CATV allows the user to select sketch geometry used to define tool shapes in CATIA. This geometry is then used to create tools in VERICUT. CATIA length units (inch or millimeter) are now automatically detected and set in the VERICUT session.
Siemens 840D VNCK
The Siemens 840D VNCK, version 1.5, uses a new VERICUT simulation API. The simulation API allows an external program to control the VERICUT simulation.
64-Bit Hardware Supported
VERICUT 6.1 runs as a 64-bit application on Windows XP64.
Airbus is selling so well that the demand to increase build rate has never been higher. BAE Systems (Filton, UK) needed a simple way to improve throughput - it found the answer in VERICUT.
With VERICUT, engineers at Stellex Monitor modeled the Sidewinder and Spar Mill machines.
Tell Tool of Westfield, Mass., has integrated VERICUT CNC simulation software into its numerical control program prove-out process.
VERICUT enabled us to start ordinary production after a minimum of time. Since this product is new for Volvo Aero Norge and our company had never before had parts with similar machining complexity, it is difficult to estimate the amount of cost saving.
Before implementing VERICUT, the company experienced the usual time-consuming and expensive manufacturing problems related to NC program prove-outs such as scrap loss, broken tooling, and a danger of occasional machine crash.
Over the last two years, GE Aviation (formerly Aerostructures Hamble) has used Machine Simulation to speed the implementation of several new 5-axis machine tools.
VERICUT showed the NC programmers leftover or heavy stock." And the software detected a couple of places where the depth of cut was too large and tools were shanking out," said Collings. They then went back and corrected the errors in the tool path before
Dassault, Seclin initially purchased VERICUT in order to reduce the number of manual prove-outs using polystyrene material, which represented a significant expense in terms of time and money.
VERICUT enabled the designers and programmers see exactly what they were building as and in-process model in different stages of the machining cycle.
We utilized VERICUT to verify the CNC programs for cutting the tooling before they were sent to the machine control,
To protect their investment, they have been using VERICUT since 1996. They have two people to verify the accuracy of their G-code files.
"When we first started using OptiPath we concentrated on the feed rate option; now we use the constant chip thickness capability. With jobs up to 200 hours long, 50% saving is significant like having another machine tool."
The entire process took less than two hours and no manpower was required, whereas, creating the same pattern manually (the old way), would have taken one of our designers several days.
The verification process stays ahead of the actual machine position in the NC code being verified. Opera-tors can see errors before they occur.
The bottom line? Using VERICUT has made Supreme's existing machine tools more productive. Enthusiasm is up, delivery times have been reduced, and pricing is more competitive.delivery times have been reduced, and pricing is more competitive.
Using VERICUT to compare the electrode burn with the mold cavity ensures that we have all the correct clearances in the electrodes and that we have 100% clean-up." says Allen.
If I was using VERICUT at the time I would've caught the problem, and had a chance to fix it before it damaged the part.
Now I rarely see the potential crashes because the students find and correct them before I review the work. Catching those costly problems is a non-event now!
VERICUT can change speeds and feeds according to cutting conditions including difference in material and tooling. It is done automatically; the programmer does not have to make even one manual insert into the code."
Flying shrapnel from shattered cutting tools and components is avoided by using VERICUT to test student programs before they are run on NC machines.
The NC programmers at Ingersoll also rely on the simulation software to prevent mistakes when programming complex, five-axis parts.
After creating the NC programs in Mastercam, they began simulating the machining process in VERICUT by simulating the G-code data. There often can be a difference between the motion as programmed and the code after it's run through the post processor
After selecting VERICUT for third-party verification, each NC programmer attended two days of basic training where they experienced first-hand the type of results they could expect to achieve.
The program simulates milling, drilling, turning, wire EDM, and mill/turn machining operations using both G-codes and CAM output.
VERICUT provides simulation capabilities for the all the 3-5 axis and wire EDM parts, with focused control over the orientation of our 5-axis machine tool including the cutters used on that machine.
The inspection probe is created as a tool in VERICUT so the complete in- cycle gauging sequence is checked for collisions.
The bottom was machined first. This effort took about 24 hours from start to finish. By using VERICUT software from CGTech, Elliot was able to test the NC program for any problems before it was ever cut on the machine.
Cosworth Racing Integrates Walter TDM Tool Management into Manufacturing Systems
With data exported from NX, Vericut simulates the cutting process on the shop floor utilizing the machine G-code to detect any issues prior to NC Program release.
VERICUT software removes this potentially hazardous stage by allowing ReedHycalog to do all of their prove-outs on a computer.
