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CGTech provides a
VUE of the future
CGTech’s VUE (VERICUT Users’ Exchange) events were developed to provide a conduit between the
software specialist’s development engineers and its global customer base. More than 50 such events
have been scheduled worldwide for 2019, with more than 5,000 attendees expected
VERICUT to support industries’ goals for
efciency and productivity.
This year the UK VUE events have been
organised at the Advanced Forming
Research Centre (AFRC), Renfrew,
Scotland; Nikken Innovation
Centre Europe, Rotherham;
Carillon Industrial Services,
Buckinghamshire; Newcastle
Racecourse, Newcastle upon
Tyne and Seco Tools,
Warwickshire.
Speaking about the VUE events,
CGTech Ltd Technical Director Gavin Powell
says: “VERICUT has a diverse user base and
our customers are found in almost every one
of the advanced and demanding industry
sectors, such as aerospace, defence,
marine, motorsport, medical, oil and gas,
petrochemical processing and other high
precision engineering operations. These
events provide the opportunity for users from
different sectors, who may never meet, to
get together and nd out more about each
other’s challenges. We can also explain how
other sectors use VERICUT, provide a better
insight into our company and software, as
well as share future plans.”
He continues: “One of the key elements
is direct product feedback from customers.
While we have an exceptional software
development team, there is no substitute for
demands ‘from the coalface’. Ideally, we aim
to match or even exceed the requirements
from our users.”
Senior Technical Engineer Gavin Bridger
and Technical Engineer Dave Woolams
highlight the new features due with the
release of Version 9.0. “Faster is better,”
says Gavin Bridger, with the development of
the new graphics display providing signicant
gains for users. “You can render faster, with
more realistic and crisper views of cutting
processes and machines. There are dramatic
improvements in the view environment –
rotate or zoom while cutting, seamlessly
switch view types or layouts, and change
model translucency, colours or other
At each event, the technical staff from
CGTech provide customers with a
feature review of the latest release of
VERICUT, imminently Version 9, of the
world’s most advanced
independent CNC machine tool
simulation and optimisation
software, with the focus on
providing convenience
features to improve
simulation visibility, speed
and efciency of the user’s
verication process.
From a global user base of more than
7,000 customers in 55 different countries
using 20,000-plus seats of VERICUT to
support the drive towards ever-increasingly
complex components produced on multi-axis
machine tools and using advanced
processes such as material deposition
additive manufacturing, the VUE attendees
were shown that the advances in VERICUT
are intended to match the pace of change of
their needs, providing an opportunity for
Faster simulation
calculation is a V9
benefi t
Scott
Ravenscroft
explains
FORCE detail
at a VUE
event
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