Hi Jay
VDI/VDE 2617 standard is outdated since years. It has been replaced by ISO 10 360 in 1994. ISO is much tougher as it requires 100% of results to be in tolerance, compared to only 95% for VDI/VDE.
Also the form error of the CMM is now clearly defined as R and this V1,V2,V3 nonsense is gone.
regards
Juergen Roos