A method is proposed for measuring a surface of rotation using a cylindrical coordinate system and multiple measuring stands and a single rotary table. This method possesses lots of advantages such as high data collection efficiency, collision avoidance and high accuracy in form error measurement. The key techniques discussed in detail include the determination of stands' coordinate systems offsets with reference to the rotary table, the determination of the effective radii of the probing

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... s, error compensation, collision avoidance and protection measures, auto-centering the workpiece and data processing. The practice and experiments show that the measuring uncertainty of the machines is less than 0.02mm which meets the general requirement in most cases.