Over 60 people from 50 of the UK’s leading advanced manufacturing and technology companies attended East Sussex-based CGTech’s recent VUE (Vericut Users’ Exchange) event, held at the Williams F1 Conference Centre in Oxfordshire.

The technical team from CGTech used the event to show customers Vericut 8.2, the latest release of CGTech’s CNC machine tool simulation and optimisation software (www.cgtech.com).

The focus was on highlighting new features that improve simulation visibility, speed work-flow, and streamline each user’s verification process.

The event marked CGTech’s 30th anniversary, and visitors were welcomed by managing director Tony Shrewsbury.

He emphasised that the company now has a global customer base of 7,000 customers in 55 countries, using around 20,000 seats of Vericut to support the drive towards increasingly complex components, produced on multi-axis machine tools and using advanced processes such as material-deposition additive manufacturing.

Mr Shrewsbury said: “Advances in Vericut match the needs of the customers, providing an opportunity for us to support industry’s goals of efficiency and productivity.

“Representing an accumulation of thousands of customer requests, this latest release has more ‘user convenience’ features, such as a modernised user interface, additional additive-manufacturing functions, OptiPath and Force data sharing, along with a plethora of detailed enhancements.”