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VERICUT Composite Simulation, Programming v9.3 On Market

VERICUT Composites Programming (VCP) and VERICUT Composites Simulation (VCS) both feature enhancements.

VERICUT Composites Programming (VCP) and VERICUT Composites Simulation (VCS) both feature enhancements.

Improvements made to the latest versions of VCP and VCS enhance core software features for composites manufacturing. Image courtesy of CGTech.


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CGTech has released its composites applications, VERICUT Composites Programming (VCP) and VERICUT Composites Simulation (VCS). Improvements made to the latest versions of VCP and VCS enhance core software features for composites manufacturing.

VCP and VCS 9.3 Highlights
 

  • Advanced Path Generation

VCP has new settings for advanced path generation, which increase the quality of courses generated on thin, closed parts, or parts with small radii. 

  • Advanced Rosette System

Along with current Rosettes, advanced rosette systems can be used to define different rosette configurations for different sections of the part, called Rosette Zones. 

  • Form Offset Linking

Form Offset is a new linking algorithm which searches for a more direct path between two courses while maintaining a constant form offset distance, which can be set in “Retract Distance.”

  • FEA Nastran Support

This helps users generate a detailed finite element shell model of a laminate’s layers. 

  • Python Scripts

This card offers the ability to write custom Python version 2.7.2 scripts using VCP’s available APIs. 

  • Import Form Surfaces into Existing Laminate

Users can now import new surfaces into an existing Laminate from CAD data.

  • Color Themes, Custom Views

VERICUT now supports a Dark Mode color theme for users that prefer darker colors for easing eye strain. 

  • Links, View Clearance

Checking the View Clearance box turns on a graphical representation of the clearance area when plane or cylinder are selected. 

Launching alongside VERICUT 9.3, VCP and VCS feature improvements to simulation graphics and ease of use such as adjusting the rendering of form edges, importing form surfaces, creating and saving custom views, and more. Improvements have also been made to algorithms such as form offset linking, advanced path generation and advanced rosette systems.

VERICUT Composites Applications stands separately from VERICUT, CGTech’s simulation, verification and optimization software. VCP reads CAD surfaces and ply boundary information and adds material to fill the plies according to user-specified manufacturing standards and requirements. These layup paths are linked together to form specific layup sequences and output as NC programs for automated layup machines.

VCS simulates work environments for automated composites manufacturing, simulating the sequence of NC programs on a virtual machine, including head changes, probing, knife cutting and more. The simulated material applied to the virtual form can be measured and inspected for stack thickness, ply offset, ply angle and other specifications to ensure the NC program follows manufacturing standards and requirements.

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