28 April 2011

Vericut drilling and fastening previews at Paris Air Show

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CGTech says that visitors to the Paris Air Show, from 20—26June will see the first European preview of a new product for programming and simulation of automated drilling and fastening machines used for airframe assembly.

Vericut Drilling and Fastening software has been designed to allow users to programme drilling and fastener assembly operations in a virtual machine tool environment. It provides simulation to check for a variety of error conditions, and comes with interfaces to most popular CAD/CAM and PLM (product lifecycle management) systems.

Meanwhile, CGTech says it will also be demonstrating Vericut Composite Applications: Vericut composite Programming (VCP) and Vericut Composite Simulation (VCS).

The firm promises demonstrations of projects that highlight the implementation and use of machine independent off-line NC programming software for AFP (automated fibre placement) machines.

Projects highlighted will include: a large one-piece fuselage barrel on an Electroimpact multi-machine AFP fabrication cell; an aircraft inlet duct on a Cincinnati Viper 1200 AFP machine; a flexible AFP gantry machine; layup of a U-channel structure on a seven-axis mTorres AFP machine; and aircraft skin panels and experiments using an AFP head mounted on a six-axis Fanuc robot.

Additionally, CGTech says it will be showing version 7.1 of it's Vericut CNC machine simulation and optimisation software, which runs standalone, but can also be integrated with mainstream CAD/CAM and PLM systems.

Author
Brian Tinham

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