An instrument Form Talysurf series 2 is mechanical ''contact'' inductive profilometer. Instrument is controlled by Ultra software, it incorporates calibration and measurement functions too. It includes roughness analyze and counting of the roughness (waviness and form) parameters of measured profile. 3D measurements are analyzed via PC using the TalyMap software. The package includes data manipulation tools such as high-resolution zooming, filtering, levelling by least square line removal, symmetries, rotations, threshold setting and cylindrical, spherical or polynomial form removal, profile extraction. Parameter sets include area and volume, counting and sorting, roughness and waviness in both 2D and 3D and automatic step height calculation. Data presentation tools include photo-realistic images in full color, meshed axonometric projections and contour diagrams.