VERICUT Drilling & Fastening (VDAF) is a software application for simulating and programming auto-drilling & fastening machines. VDAF is independent of both the machine and CAD system. 

VERICUT Drilling & Fastening (VDAF) can help you avoid problems such as:

• Drilled hole or fastener in wrong position
• Missed hole or fastener
• Wrong hole size or fastener in right position
• Hole not drilled through the stack
• Hole double-drilled or double-filled
• Wrong fastener for material stack
• Collision with structure
• Collision with tooling
• Collision with added fasteners

VDAF Simulation
Visualize and simulate CNC drilling and fastening machines using the same NC program code that will be run on the machine. Simulation is independent from programming, and VDAF can simulate NC programs from any programming system for any CNC-automated drilling and fastening machine.

VDAF Programming Add-on Option
This add-on module to VDAF gives you the ability to create NC programs for CNC auto-drilling and fastening machines. Fasteners are displayed in a tree dialog that allows you to group fastener types under tree branches and order them as needed.

 

VDAF simulates machine motion directly from NC program files to check for collisions and other potential process problems. VDAF simulation also checks specific auto-driller/fastener actions, such as: proper drilling and fastening through the stack,  appropriate tool selection for specified hole or fastener parameters, properly inserted fastener for given hole and stack call-out, collisions with inserted fasteners.
A Tool Library organizes the drills and countersinks to be used in a simulation session. A Fastener Library contains models of specific fasteners that can be inserted by NC program commands.

VDAF Programming Add-on Option
This add-on module to VDAF Simulation creates NC programs for automatic drilling and fastening. This is a universal software application capable of programming many CNC auto-driller/fastener machines. A single license can program multiple different machines using a post-processor configured for each machine.

Fasteners and operations are displayed in a tree dialog. The tree layout allows the user to group fasteners under tree branches and order and re-order them as needed. The user interface clearly identifies the fasteners that have been processed and those that have not. Fastener information can also be displayed in different ways to meet other user requirements. For example, fasteners may be displayed by type, diameter, length, etc. The VDAF Programming Add-on Option requires a VDAF Simulation base license.

VERICUT Machine Configuration (VMC)
A VMC reads the auto-drilling/fastening NC program for a specific machine. It contains the definition of all drilling, fastening, utility cycles, and functions used in the NC program. It then emulates the CNC control logic necessary to accomplish a simulation of the NC program on the specific machine, including simulated fastener insertion. Simulated fastener insertion requires CAD models of the various fasteners that will be used in the assembly process (stored and organized in the Fastener Library).

Post-processor
The post-processor formats the auto-drilling /fastening paths created in VERICUT for a specific machine. The post-processor contains the definition of all drilling, fastening, utility cycles, and functions used in the NC program.

Other Possible Requirements

CATIA V5 Model Interface
Reads CATIA V5 native assembly files (.CATProduct) into VDAF Simulation and Programming.

Custom Fastener Object Reader
A custom script running inside the CAD system that reads user-defined fastener information and converts it into a VERICUT fastener file, in preparation for programming and simulation. This script is custom-written for each end-user implementation.

Vistagy SyncroFIT Interface
A standard interface for reading the assembly, fastener definition, and process information from SyncroFIT’s Airframe Design Environment, and prepares files for programming and simulation in VDAF.