Hexagon Vero Alphacam 2025 – CNC Software for Metal, Wood, and Stone Industries

Vero Alphacam Overview

Vero Alphacam Enhanced Features and Optimized Workflows. The latest version delivers significant enhancements aimed at improving the user experience, increasing transparency and expanding production capabilities.

Vero Alphacam Features

Graphical interface – improved visualization of solid models
Solid models now load with improved tolerances by default. They appear smoother and have sharper edges.

Benefits:
Reduces the need for constant refresh (CTRL + R) to regenerate a model with higher tolerances.
Provides improved workflow and usability when working with solids.
Comparing solid models in ALPHACAM 2025.1 shows smoother edges and improved visualization for a better user experience.

Graphical user interface – improved display options
Includes a new saw display option that provides a visual representation of the saw to scale. It displays details such as cutting direction, depth of cut, saw dimensions, and cut boundaries.
Ghost tools are now colored the same as their associated geometry.

Benefits:
Provides clearer verification of saw tool paths.
Provides improved clarity of cutting directions and geometry.
Leads to a better overall understanding of the drawing.
ALPHACAM 2025.1 saw tool display with scaled images of cutting direction, depth, and dimensions for greater clarity and verification.

Advanced 5-Axis – updated to the latest version and libraries.
Updated to the latest version of the machining library, including new features, improvements, and bug fixes.
New tooling options are available, such as user-defined shaft profiles and improved tumbling parameters.
Provides improved control over multi-axis roughing, chip removal, and surface finishing cycles.
Includes more advanced tool types.

Benefits:
Provides greater flexibility with expanded tool definitions and motion strategies.
Enables more consistent and accurate toolpath modeling and generation.
A diagram of the enhanced 5-axis tool in ALPHACAM 2025.1, showing barrel cutter parameters and updated machining library parameters.

Aspire for ALPHACAM – updated to the latest version, V12
Integrated with Aspire V12, it offers a completely modernized and optimized user interface.
It includes advanced 3D CAD tools such as sketch cutting, cross-sectioning, and vector creation directly in the 3D viewport.
Improved workspace structure and responsiveness thanks to improved DPI scaling and panel management.

Benefits:
The result is a more streamlined interface and clearer visuals.
Reduces mouse movement and improves layout efficiency.
New tools increase design control and flexibility.
Reports include full-color images for details and subsheets.
Colored parts and subsheets can now be visually displayed directly in reports.
Benefits:
Parts are easier to identify on sheets from the parts list.
Errors or inconsistencies in the nesting scheme are easier to spot.
Reports are now clearer and easier to interpret.
The ALPHACAM 2025.1 report features color-coded parts and nested sheets for easier identification and improved layout clarity.

Automation Manager – Workflow Enhancements
The new “Show Missing Processing Styles” button highlights layer mapping settings with missing processing styles, improving error visibility.
The “Highlight Unused Settings” feature identifies and marks layer mapping settings that are not actively used or not set as default.
For irregularly shaped solid parts, an option has been added to align to minimum 3D bounding contour, aligning the longest edge to the X or Y axis.
The multiple job file processing feature allows you to select multiple job files or CDM doors using CTRL + click to perform a single operation.

Benefits:
Instantly identifies missing processing styles and unused settings, reducing setup errors and investigation time.
Enables batch/partial processing of jobs.
Allows for quick identification of redundant configurations, streamlining workflows.
Ensures more optimal rotation and placement of non-standard parts, improving material utilization and cutting quality.
Simplifies data organization and makes the manager easier to use.