VERICUT 6.2 features several enhancements that increase the ability of manufacturing engineers to develop, analyze, inspect and document the CNC programming and machining process. A new "NC Program Preview" offers an option to process an NC program in VERICUT without actually simulating material being removed. This "quick check" is very fast and uses much less memory. When in preview mode, VERICUT displays a tool trace of the NC program over the design model. Preview checks for collisions, gouges, minimum excess and instances where axis limits are exceeded. At the end of the preview VERICUT enters NC Program Review mode.
Complimenting the milling tool setup wizard introduced in VERICUT 6.0, a turret setup wizard has been added. The new turret setup enables users to easily load, change tools or change tool positions in a turret. Users can also easily create a swept model of a turret.
The tool manager has also been enhanced to enable users to describe the shape, position and orientation of a waterjet cutter or a tap in a tap tool assembly.
X-Caliper allows users to measure thickness, volume, depth, gaps, distances, angles, hole diameters, corner radii, scallop heights, etc. VERICUT 6.2 can now directly measure the depth of blind holes as well as the top and bottom radius of a countersink. Picking a hole returns the center point. X-Caliper can also be used to measure the distance between the tool and the stock.
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