Verisurf makes it possible to program the CMM inside Mastercam and inside the same program that was used to build the toolpaths. This can reduce duplicated efforts, streamline change propagation, and centralize your operations across departments. Verisurf is an add-on program that runs inside Mastercam and is perfect for Quality Assurance (QA) operations. Skilled Mastercam programmers can program the CMM after the CNC program is generated so the shop floor isn’t waiting on serial processes.

For many industries, quality inspection is a necessary step after machining to confirm tolerances and provide proof of suitability. To avoid possible errors introduced by the fixturing or the CNC machine itself, the part needs to be transferred to another machine for inspection, often a CMM. That doesn’t mean you have to transfer the workload and repeat the effort of understanding the part tolerances to another department. By fully separating the work between two separate groups, it duplicates effort and creates a serial process that can dramatically slow down production. Changes to the tolerances or the design also require duplication of efforts to consume the changes and update the programs and documentation.