This article addresses the issue that there's yet no mature approach for digitalized measurement of formed ship hull plates at various domestic shipyards,and no clear consensus about how to apply ship hull drawing rules in plate measurement software,which affects the promotion of digital shipbuilding technologies relating to digital hull plate measuring equipment.Based on the investigation of national standards,industry norms in ship hull design,and shipyard needs,research has been conducted on the numbering rules,coordinate systems,and profile representation suitable for hull plate measurement software.A set of application solutions that meet the requirements has been proposed,and the key steps and results of software implementation have been reported.The relevant solutions have been successfully applied in developed hull plate measurement software and recognized by shipyards in which the software has been tested.