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VERICUT CAD/CAM Interfaces

 
CAD/CAM Interfaces: 
   Pro/E
   Siemens NXCATIA V5
   CATIA V4EdgeCAM
   MastercamPowerMill
   hyperMillWinTool
   GibbsCAMTDM Systems

 

 
Mastercam-to-VERICUT  Interface
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The Mastercam-to-VERICUT Interface from CGTech integrates the two programs to help you create the most accurate and efficient NC tool path programs possible! With the new interface you can launch VERICUT from Mastercam. The interface utilizes Mastercam’s C-Hook technology to automatically transfer setup information including tools, tool paths, and stock location to VERICUT in their proper orientation. VERICUT verifies NC milling, drilling, turning, EDM, mill/turn, and Mastercam roll-die machining operations to detect errors without doing a manual prove-out. It also optimizes NC programs in order to produce more efficient tool paths that save time, produce higher quality surface finishes, and prolong tool life. VERICUT supports Mastercam NCI files and G-code data. The Mastercam and VERICUT processes run independently so you can create/edit a tool path while verifying or optimizing another.
 
 
 
CATIA V5-to-VERICUT Interface
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Following the successful VERICUT interface for CATIA V4, the CATIA V5-to-VERICUT Interface provides a smooth upgrade path for CATIA users who have transitioned to CATIA V5.

 

The CATIA V5-to-VERICUT Interface tightly integrates the two programs to help you create the most accurate and efficient NC programs possible! It makes verifying and optimizing NC programs and simulating CNC machines a much easier and more efficient process.
 
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 NC program, tooling, machine and control data and other simulation parameters.
 
VERICUT runs independently of the CATIA process, so you can continue working in CATIA version 5 while simulating and optimizing your NC programs. With VERICUT as your simulation package, you can also verify and optimize NC programs from other CAM systems in CL or post-processed G-code format.
 
 
CATIA V4-to-VERICUT Interface (CATV®)
The CATV module is a fully integrated CATIA to VERICUT interface that provides you with an improved way to work with CATIA and VERICUT. Using CATV, you start and work with VERICUT from inside CATIA. Once both programs are running, it’s simple to toggle between the two—enabling you to more quickly create and verify an NC program. CATV transfers CATIA geometry to VERICUT for stock, fixture, and design models. CATV also converts CATIA line and arc elements (two-dimensional tool profiles) into VERICUT cutter, shank, and holder tool definitions. Based on the CATIA coordinate systems, translations and rotations are automatically calculated. With CATV there is no need for expensive third-party stereolithography (STL) converters. It provides the option to output STL data directly from CATIA for rapid prototyping. Unlike converters which can only output STL data from solids geometry, CATV has the ability to output additional CATIA geometry such as faces, skins, surfaces, and volumes as STL data.
 
 
Edgecam-to-VERICUT Interface
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This interface enables you to easily send model, tool assembly, and NC program information to VERICUT from EdgeCAM. Developed using Pathtrace’s PDI development tools, it simplifies VERICUT setup for seamless simulation of EdgeCAM NC programs. VERICUT is launched from within EdgeCAM, but runs externally so you can work in EdgeCAM while verifying and optimizing NC programs in VERICUT.
 
 
Pro/E-to-VERICUT Interface (included with Pro/E)   Request a demo CD   Download WMV
PTCThe Pro/E-to-VERICUT Interface gives Pro/E users a better way to work with VERICUT from within the CAD/CAM environment. VERICUT is launched from within Pro/Engineer’s NC menus and can be run interactively or in batch mode. Tool path motions for the selected Operation or NC Sequence; tool descriptions; and reference, workpiece and fixture models from the current manufacturing session are automatically transferred to VERICUT. The VERICUT session runs as an external process, enabling you to work in Pro/Engineer while VERICUT verifies the tool path.  
 
 
NX-to-VERICUT Interface    
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CGTech’s Unigraphics® Interface for VERICUT provides an easy & convenient way to verify tool paths directly from within Unigraphics! The interface can verify individual tool paths, a series of selected tool paths, or a complete sequence of operations. With the Unigraphics Interface, tool path files are linked to manufacturing operations, enabling easy selection of tool path motion from the desired operation. All tool path and tooling information is automatically transferred to VERICUT. Design, Stock, and Fixture models are also automatically transferred to VERICUT in their proper orientation. The VERICUT process runs external to Unigraphics so you can continue working in Unigraphics while verifying the tool path.  
 
 
hyperMILL® Interface    Request a demo CD    Download WMV
Launches VERICUT from hyperMILL. Tool definitions, stock, fixture and design geometry from hyperMILL are automatically transferred to VERICUT. The hyperMILL interface to VERICUT is supplied by OPEN MIND.
 
 
PowerMILL® Interface       Request a demo CD   Download WMV
Launches VERICUT from PowerMILL. Tool definitions, stock, fixture and design geometry from PowerMILL are automatically transferred to VERICUT. The PowerMILL interface to VERICUT is supplied by Delcam.   
 
 
 
GibbsCAM® Interface    Request a demo CD   Download WMV
This interface launches VERICUT from a GibbsCAM plug-in. Tool definitions, stock, fixture and design geometry from GibbsCAM are automatically transferred to VERICUT.  The VERICUT process runs external to GibbsCAM so you can continue working in GibbsCAM while verifying the NC program.
 
 
WinTool Interface    Download PDF
Wintool logoWith the WinTool interface to VERICUT, new tools can be easily assembled, adjusted, and imported in VERICUT, ready to use, and without additional manual modifications. With one mouse click you import all solids from your central tool library for components, assemblies, and lists. With WinTool, engineering and tool crib uses the same data, which reduces tooling errors in manufacturing. Time-consuming inquiries of cutting or collision lengths become obsolete since all information will be recorded in the WinTool tool library with little effort.
 
 
TDM Systems Interface    Download PDF   Download WMV
This module enables you to use the data in your TDM system in VERICUT for simulating and verifying NC programs! The interface extracts tool lists from TDM and creates VERICUT tool assemblies. It is an on-the-fly live connection to TDM. No intermediate files are produced, so the tooling information used is always the most current available from TDM.
Read how NX user Cosworth Racing has fully integrated TDM with VERICUT!
 
 

 

 
 
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.
VERICUT verification detects errors such as: inaccurate programming, incorrect tool path motions, rapid motion contact, collisions with fixtures and clamps, tool shank and holder collisions, & CAD/CAM and post processor bugs.
VERICUT Machine Simulation supports G-codes and Multi-axis (5-axis or more) support for milling, drilling, turning, grinding & EDM machines

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