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12<br />
Computer Software<br />
Collaboration Tool Enables All Company<br />
Personnel to View NC Programme Simulations<br />
CGTech, the developer of Vericut CNC machine simulation,<br />
verification and optimization software, has introduced the<br />
Vericut Reviewer collaboration tool for communicating<br />
with other people within an enterprise who operate outside<br />
the NC programming department. By means of Vericut<br />
Reviewer, shop-floor personnel and other production<br />
engineers equipped with Windows-based personal computers<br />
can view 3D animations of the CNC machining process<br />
at their workstations.<br />
For several years, Vericut featured a review mode in which<br />
the NC programmer could play forward and backward while<br />
removing and replacing material. Error messages and NC<br />
programme text were highlighted whenever a collision on<br />
the stock or fixture was selected. In addition, the user could<br />
opt to show cutting conditions and a tool-path line display.<br />
Now, however, a new Reviewer file can be saved and sent to<br />
others at any point during a Vericut session.<br />
The Vericut Reviewer application incorporates all the<br />
functionality of NC Review mode in a stand-alone viewer<br />
that does not require a license. The user can rotate, pan,<br />
cross-section and zoom just as in full Vericut, and cut stock<br />
features such as material thickness, hole diameter and<br />
pitch. In addition, the user can measure air gaps via the<br />
full range of X-Caliper tools.<br />
» CGTech Ltd.<br />
Hove, E Sussex, UK<br />
www.cgtech.co.uk<br />
European Tool & Mould Making | Buyer‘s Guide 2011-12 | www.etmm-online.com
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