Verisurf Software released Verisurf 2027 on October 6, 2026. The headline feature: inspection plans generated directly from an imported QIF file. The file carries features, dimensions, GD&T, datums, tolerances, and reporting relationships, so nobody has to re-key the drawing into the CMM program.
The bigger change is traceability. Verisurf keeps Persistent IDs (PIDs) attached through planning, measurement, reporting, and QIF Results export. Every measured value stays linked to the engineering characteristic it checks. In QMS terms, that gives a first article report and a production SPC point the same verified chain back to CAD intent.
“Verisurf 2027 takes another major step forward by using STEP AP242, QIF interoperability, and Persistent IDs to maintain the connection between engineering intent and inspection results from the model, through the shop floor, and into the enterprise,” said Ernie Husted, President of Verisurf Software. Native CAD-to-QIF conversion lets teams build that QIF package before inspection starts.
The same week, Metrology and Quality News covered closed-loop machining from AAT, whose CAPPS-NC runs on-machine measurement during production. It feeds results to SPC, MES, and ERP so the cell can correct variation before the lot finishes, instead of discovering it at final inspection.
Put together, these two stories describe the same shift. Measurement data is moving from a PDF attached to a lot traveler to structured records tied to product definition. That only works if PLM owns the characteristic IDs and revision, and the QMS consumes them unchanged for nonconformances, CAPA, and supplier PPAP.
N23D is building to that model in Rust. Its AP242 writer and reader already round-trip CAD data, and the QMS module is specified to key inspection characteristics, results, and dispositions to the same persistent IDs that CAD and PLM issue. A ballooned drawing, a CMM program, and a nonconformance would then all reference one record instead of three copies.
Sources / References
- Metrology and Quality News — Verisurf 2027 Accelerates Model-Based Inspection from Shop Floor to the Enterprise (Oct 6, 2026)
- Metrology and Quality News — Closing the Loop on Machining Quality (Oct 7, 2026)
- Verisurf Software
- QIF Standards (Digital Metrology Standards Consortium)
- Images: FanchonH, CC BY-SA 4.0; Rally, Wikimedia Commons; Rubin Observatory/NSF/AURA, CC BY 4.0
