Currently one of the most important tasks of industrial enterprises is fulfilling the required quality of the products. This article is focused just on surface roughness, because product quality is an extensive concept. To obtain the desired product shape and dimensions, a cutting tool must remove the necessary volume of chips. The cutting tool and process conditions also affect the surface roughness during the machining process. The effect of the cutting edge radius on the roughness is studied during the experiment. The cutting tools have modified microgeometries. There are six cutting tools with cutting edge radii of 15 μm; 20 μm and 25 μm. The roughness measurement was performed using the non-contact method on an IGM G4.