CGTech Releases VERICUT Collaboration Tool

“Since Windows PCs are now used extensively throughout manufacturing facilities, we saw an opportunity for others in the CNC manufacturing process to benefit from the VERICUT simulation session,” said CGTech Ltd Managing Director, John Reed, “By creating a standalone VERICUT Reviewer application, shop supervisors, technicians and machine operators can review a VERICUT simulation of the NC machining process at their work place.”

For several years VERICUT software has featured a Review Mode where the NC Programmer can play forward and backward while removing and replacing material. Error messages and NC program text is highlighted when a collision on the stock or fixture is selected. The user can optionally show cutting conditions and a tool path line display.

Now, a new “Reviewer” file can be saved and sent to others at any point in a VERICUT session. The VERICUT Reviewer application incorporates all the functionality of NC Review mode in a stand-alone viewer that does not require a license. The user can rotate, pan, cross-section and zoom just like full VERICUT, and cut stock features such as material thickness, hole diameter and pitch, and air gaps can be measured using the full range of X-Caliper tools.