Hove-based CGTech Ltd (www.cgtech.co.uk) will showcase its expanded range of software applications for the aerospace industry in Hall 2B (stand F172, booth 1) at this year’s Paris International Air Show, Le Bourget, 19-23 June.

The company’s Vericut software is widely used in aerospace and defence to improve the efficiency of all types of CNC machine tools.

It provides CNC machine simulation, verification and optimisation, which allows users to eliminate the process of manually proving out NC programs.

Vericut simulates all types of CNC machining, including multi-axis milling, the drilling and trimming of composite parts, water-jet cutting, robotic machining and mill-turn centres.

The software runs on a stand-alone basis, but it can also be integrated with leading CAM systems used in aerospace (including Dassault Systemes CATIA, Siemens PLM NX, Autodesk PowerMill and Open Mind HyperMill).

Applications featuring the leading CNC machine tool suppliers — including DMG Mori, Mazak, Starrag, GROB, CMS and Hermle — will be shown.

Throughout the show, CGTech will be demonstrating Vericut Composite Applications; it will also feature projects that highlight the use of off-line NC programming and simulation software for automated fibre-placement machines and automated tape-laying machines — including robot cells.

These composites applications are machine-independent, and machines from leading composites machinery suppliers will be featured.

Meanwhile, Vericut Drilling and Fastening (VDAF) is software for simulating and programming auto-drilling and fastening machines.

These machines are used to assemble large aero-structures, and it is essential to avoid programming errors and collisions at such a late stage in the aircraft-manufacturing process.

VDAF allows the user to program drilling and fastener-assembly operations in a virtual machine tool environment, while providing simulation to check for a variety of potentially disastrous error conditions.

Like all Vericut software, VDAF interfaces to leading CAD/CAM/PLM systems and is independent of the assembly-machine manufacturer.