초록
The flatness is the most important nature for the surface plates. For finding such a flatnes a surface plate is surveyed along a number of straight lines parallel to the edges of plate which form a grid pattern. Next the variations in height of the grid points are measured relative to a datum point. the relation between the number of such grid points and the flatuness of a measured surface plate is formulated in this study. In addtion it is found that the grid-point-numbers suggested by KS B 5254 and JIS B 7513 have very poor reliability for estimation of flatness incase of the surface plates with poor original flatness.