To enable nearly perfect measurement by providing a digital camera and a three-dimensional measuring instrument of a laser, and making measured data of the measuring instrument perfect by compensating those of a contour part, etc., with photographed data by the digital camera.

A measuring apparatus 2 for three-dimensional shapes provided in an automatic solid carving equipment 1 is composed of a digital camera 17 and a three-dimansional measuring instrument 18 of a laser set in such a way as to be able to photograph and measure the upper half body of a person 8, an estimating compensating soft ware for processing these data, etc., for example. Along with photographing the upper half body of the person 8 for example with the digital camera 17, it is measured with the measuring instrument 18. The software composes a three-dimensional shape data, by using a photographed data of the digital camera 17 for parts of a contour and hair where measurement by the measuring instrument 18 tends to be uncertain, and using data by the measuring instrument 18 for other parts, etc. On the basis of this data, solid carving is performed by an automatic solid carving machine 10 for example.