This article was devoted to the tests which allow to rate practical usability of spline functions in wide rage shape describing process. There were proposed effective criterions, which allow to rate quality of splines arc to approximated object convergence. Those tests were performed for especially created simple models, which can be easily compared with any measured shape. By then it become possible to sum up the deformations arised from the spline functions describing techniques. The investigations results are especially useful for measuring points schedule planning, that way to let the curve or surface consists of them to be precisely fitted to the real measured object shapes.
This paper has been dedicated to describe a spline function course modification methods. Only use of them lets the splines to become a useful and precise tool, which serves to approximate shapes of any engineering objects. Some of these methods should be always applied (parametrical description connected with a proper parameterization, appropriate selection of the boundary conditions), the others are advantageous in depending on the surface's shape, number and accuracy of measured points (additional points insertion, approximant splines), and the rest (NURBS splines) are worth to utilize only in an exceptional cases, when the great deformations are generated by spline functions. The connection of these methods with schedule of the appropriately regularity location of measured points, will lets to obtain good effects of the spline functions approximation.
