Editor ’s Note: Read the Second Part On WHY Datums Use in Cad Should Remain Distinct from GD & T Datum Features.

  

  

  The point of GD & T is usability, and commit, is available for information amigns, drawsmen, craftsmen, and inspectors is the key.

  

  

  Tolerance — the topal amount a spiecific distility is permitted to view. The tolerance is the difference between the maximum and minimum limits.

  

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  They Can Cauise Ambiguity When used to Orient, Locate, or Control the form of part features.

  For PARTS that are Completely Stand-Alone or One-Off, The Competition Edge of GD & T Might Be Blunt. For PARTS That Will Go into An Assembly. Witch My Apological.

  No part is an island, entire of itse’f;

  Every part ’s tolerance stacks in a nested drf.*

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  Parts can vary in Several Ways:

  Within-PART VARIATION of a Single Characteristic

  Deviation of a Single Part from Nominal Specification

  Variation of a Single PART FROM Other (What Should Be Identical) Parts.

  While Those Distantions are Challenging to Address with Just Plus/Minus Dimensions, GD & T is Usefully Versatic for the Task.

  Plus/Minus Tolerancing is used to tolerance drawing diary.

  Zones (See Figure 2).

  , They Put a Burden on the Designer and the Fabricator.

  

  LEAD to the DETECTION and Correntation of Privems Before the Part Can Be Rejected at Assembly.

  GD & T can be describe the fIT of the Pin in the Hole very clear. It also can match how the part is used to how the part is met.

  But the do not define the design.)

  There are two main ways to designate diarsions as base:

  The Numerical Values Can Have Boxes Placement Around them (a default or Simple Mouse-CLICK FUNCTION in a Cad System).

  A Note Can be added stating "Untoleranced Dimensions Are Basic."

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