VERIFICATION is the foundation of the VERICUT product line and is required to run any of the other add-on modules.
VERIFICATION verifies 3-axis milling ( plus rotary axis positioning/indexing), 2-axis turning (including multiple setup positions) and mill/turn operations.
VERIFICATION detects errors such as:
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Accurate Error Detection & Reporting
With more than a decade of development, VERICUT's error-detection is extremely accurate. Errors are shown in the color of your choice – simply click on an error to see which tool path record is responsible. All errors are recorded in a results file. You can run simulations in batch mode and set VERICUT to record snapshots of all errors.
CNC Control Emulation & G-code Support
The VERICUT accurately emulates CNC control logic. Each control in your shop can be accurately simulated to account for different types of machines, programs, parts, and functions. No special programming language is required to simulate most CNC controls.
VERICUT includes a library of flexible, easily modified controls from makers such as:
· Allen-Bradley |
· Mazatrol |
· Bosch . |
· NumeriPath |
· Cincinnati Milacron |
· Okuma |
· Fadal . |
· Phillips |
· Fanuc |
· Siemens |
· General Electric |
· Yasnac |
Today's NC machine tools process complex NC programs. VERICUT was designed by NC programmers and professionals in NC simulation and verification software. Because of this understanding and expertise, VERICUT is an excellent tool when using multi-axis machines, complex NC code, and/or advanced programming techniques.
VERICUT is designed to support advanced control functions including: |
· Look-ahead or 3D cutter compensation |
· Tool tip programming & tool length compensation |
· Gage length reference point programming |
· Canned cycles and fixture offsets |
· Rotary axis pivot points |
· Variables, subprograms, and macros |
· Subroutines, looping, and branching logic |
You also get the flexibility to customize controls. Using pull down dialog boxes, G-code characters and numerals are defined in a logical "word/address" format, then configured to call CGTech action macros which simulate control functions. The control logic also supports conditional checks (other codes in the block, current variable values, machine states, etc.) that can alter how the word/address is interpreted.
The Verification module enables you to view and analyze the geometry of the cut part. You can zoom, reverse, and rotate the model. Models can be cross-sectioned multiple times at any orientation, so you can check areas that would be impossible to see in a solid model (such as the intersection of drilled holes).
The X-Caliper™ tool measures thickness, volume, depth, gaps, distances, angles, hole diameters, corner radii, scallop height, and edges. Delta X, Y, Z component distance measurements are included.
VERICUT features an accelerated verification mode called FastMill . Using FastMill, you can quickly verify long tool paths. Mold and die builders, this feature is for you!
Defining Stock & Simulating Cutting Tools
You can define stock models in VERICUT or import them from a CAD system. VERICUT supports multiple, independently moving stock models for multiple or staged setups. VERICUT simulates multiple simultaneous cutters. It includes a complete library of cutters from Ingersoll Cutting Tool Company. If your cutter isn't in the library, you can modify one or define your own and add it to your library.
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You can set up holders as "non-cutting" portions of the tool to check for collisions. VERICUT supports concave bottom, or non-center cutting end mills, such as carbide insert end mills, so you can take full advantage of your equipment without fear of destroying the workpiece or cutting tool because of an incorrect ramp motion. |
The Verification module is also a powerful reverse post- processor. By translating NC programs to APT or other NC data formats, it saves valuable machine tool and programmer time and makes it possible to recycle obsolete or incompatible NC programs.
IGES Converter
The Verification module includes an IGES Converter which converts IGES ( Initial Graphics Exchange Specification) geometry to stereolithography (STL) data and to VERICUT model files. It is used to import complex castings, clamps, fixtures, and design models into VERICUT.
This function is especially useful to organizations that use more than one CAD system or job shops doing work for companies with different CAD systems. IGES files can be converted to VERICUT model files to check an NC tool path. Large companies with multiple CAD systems may need to produce STL data—but use CAD systems that do not support STL. Rather than purchasing multiple STL translators, or spending time on expensive work-arounds, the IGES Converter produces STL geometry from each system.
VERICUT converts IGES solid, surface (trimmed, nurb, parametric, ruled, etc.), curve, and matrix entities to STL and VERICUT model data in either binary or ASCII format. You control the accuracy of the output model file by setting tolerance parameters.
The IGES conversion can run in batch mode and can be executed from another program.
Surface-to-Solid
The Verification module includes a Surface-to-Solid function that creates solid models from open surface STL and VERICUT model files.
It takes an open surface and projects it to a plane to create a solid model. The surface may be offset by any specified amount to create an accurate representation of the material to be machined (a casting or forging, for example).
This product is especially useful to companies in the mold & die machining industry. For example, an automotive company producing large press dies machined from cast material can use it to create solid models from a “net” or finished surface for VERICUT simulation.
PolyFix
The PolyFix function repairs both STL and VERICUT model files which have missing faces, overlapping or misaligned edges, and inaccurate and inconsistent surface normals. The output is a good STL file.
Binary APT-CL File Converter
Reads binary CL-files, eliminating many costly, time-consuming non-compatibility and data transfer problems. Most CAM systems generate one or more type of neutral language files containing generic instructions for NC machines. Most of these are either in a binary format, usually called "CL-data," or in an ASCII readable format tailored after the APT language. Some CAM systems provide a large degree of flexibility, allowing just about anything to be included in the neutral file, while others are quite strict about what can and cannot be included. Using this conversion module, each of these different types of binary CL-files can be read directly into VERICUT.
The Binary APT CL-file Converter reads these pure binary files and outputs ASCII "simple APT" version:
- IBM mainframe APT 360/370
- IBM mainframe MDC APT
- Workstation IBM APT
- Workstation CATIA APT
- VAX APT
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