Digital measurement devices, such as coordinate measuring machines, laser scanning devices, and digital imaging, can provide highly accurate and precise coordinate data representing the sampled surface. However, this discrete measurement process can only account for measured data points, not the entire continuous form, and is heavily influenced by the algorithm that interprets the measured data. The definition of cylindrical size for an external feature as specified by ASME . This work builds upon previous research in which the hull normal method was presented to determine the size of cylindrical bosses when rule no. I is applied [Turek, and Anand, 2007, "A Hull Normal Approach for Determining the Size of Cylindrical Features, " ASME, Atlanta, GA]. A thorough analysis of the hull normal method's performance in various circumstances is presented here to validate it as a superior alternative to the least-squares and MCC solutions for size evaluation. The goal of the hull normal method is to recreate the sampled surface using computational geometry methods and to determine the cylinder's axis and radius based upon it. Based on repetitive analyses of random samples of data from several measured parts and generated forms, it was concluded that the hull normal method outperformed all traditional solution methods. The hull normal method proved to be robust bv having a lower bias and distributions that were skewed toward the true value of the radius, regardless of the amount of form error.