Three VUE 2021 (Vericut User Exchange) events held in late 2021 attracted over 60 people from UK advanced manufacturing and technology companies. The events kicked-off at the British Motor Museum in Gaydon, followed by Aerospace Bristol and the Nikken Innovation Centre Europe in Rotherham. Technical staff from CGTech used the events to provide customers with a feature review of the enhancements made in the latest release of Vericut, version 9.2.

Attendees were welcomed by Gavin Powell, CGTech UK’s newly promoted managing director. “With the major features of version 9.2, Vericut offers its users even more protection and opportunities for productivity and efficiency gains,” he said. “Version 9.2 includes collision and performance improvements; new graphs and tool use windows that provide visual data in an easy-to-use format; enhanced support for hole-making tools; annotation and section for cutting tools; new cutter types; user-driven changes to improve multi-tool stations; and ‘Force’ and ‘Additive’ enhancements.”

Collision and performance improvements of v9.2 were demonstrated with material removal at tight cutting resolutions carried out up to 30% faster. Deep concave collision penetration has been enhanced, especially against high triangle count models, and an example of an impeller case highlighted the speed of the latest version, reducing the time required from 12 minutes in v9.1, to just 36 seconds.

Regarding hole making the CGTech technical team asked: ‘What could possibly go wrong?’ Very little with the support of Vericut v9.2 as the software now checks for wrong location, size or depth; cut deeper than flutes; motion not along tool axis; pre-drill operation before ream or tap; and incorrect feeds/speeds for tap.

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