The blade is a typical part with sculptured surfaces
the locating of these parts for measurement with coordinate measuring machines (CMM) is a difficult and time-consuming task because there are no locating datum planes. To solve this problem
a multistage location algorithm including pre-location and fine-location
considering radius comprehension
was proposed based on iterative closest point algorithm. By establishing the relationship of locating errors and geometric errors of locating points
a near-optimal locating point sequence was generated using the greedy algorithm and six-point principle. Combining multi-stage location algorithm and locating point sequence
an iterative locating process for the part with sculptured surfaces measurement with CMM was researched and programmed. In the simulation and experiment of localizing a turbine blade with sculptured surfaces
only 12-18 points were need to maintain the location errors with in 0.1mm.The efficiency and accuracy of this method are desirable.