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    Is my understand of the FRTZF correct?

    On top of the fact that the composite FCFs are not correct, there's absolutely no reason to have the CF symbol since you have a .007 in the lower tier of the FCF.
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    General Profile Tolerance Interpretation

    This figure is a known typo. Of course the ENTIRE tolerance zone can't be unusable. This is a frustrating thing. It's not the only figure in error either.
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    Perpendicularity to Two Datums

    This reminds me of a time when I had done a drawing for a casting and sent it to the foundry. This was around the 2012 timeframe. I used angularity instead or perpendicularity simply because I knew it was an alternative practice and I could. A couple of days later I get an email from the foundry...
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    Surface Roughness

    Why don't you go through the process of polishing the material with 2500 grit, measure the surface texture, then use that value? What parameter are you going to specify? John Acosta, GDTP Senior Level
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    Parallelism on a Slot

    Dave, If the slot is parallel to a primary then it needs to be located from it, which means position would be the appropriate control. Maybe there's an instance where parallelism would be appropriate. Can you describe a scenario like that? John Acosta, GDTP Senior Level
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    Parallelism on a Slot

    You would certainly want to control the position, unless you are controlling position with respect to a different datum. If you only control orientation, then that's ALL you are controlling. There is no implied location with an orientation control. John Acosta, GDTP Senior Level
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    total run out on a datum

    Based on this drawing, cylindricity is the appropriate callout for datum feature A. As Dave said, runout requires a datum reference and the total runout has no datum reference. To make things worse, you have a concentricity callout. What do you think the difference is between concentricity and...
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    un-referenced datums revisited

    But it doesn't have that note, nor did the original drawing, so the answer is still "NOTHING". Why even go down this road of trying to find something wrong with the lesson being conveyed? First of all A could never constrain translation along x and B could never constrain translation along z...
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    un-referenced datums revisited

    Here's a snip from the Tec-ease course. This was an actual argument I had with an inspector back around 2006 or so. He insisted that datum feature reference was implied if datum features were identified, even if they weren't in the datum reference frame. This is actually what the part looked...
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    Simultaneous position and establishing a clocking datum

    Simultaneous requirements does not mean that features have to be measured simultaneously, it means the features have to meet their requirement simultaneously. So you have to find the sweet spot where all the features are in tolerance simultaneously. You can't shift the part in one direction to...
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    Drawing tolerance

    Note 4 seems to say that all dimensions are basic, unless otherwise specified. Is that not pretty much the same thing? John Acosta, GDTP Senior Level
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    Drawing tolerance

    From ASME Y14.5-2018 John Acosta, GDTP Senior Level
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    Critique on application of GD&T please.

    IF IN DOUBT ASK? Is that an attempt at ensuring you can reject a part that meets the print but doesn't fit/work? John Acosta, GDTP Senior Level
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    TOLERANCE STANDARD FOR SHEET METAL FEATURES

    The first fundamental rule in ASME Y14.5-2018 states that each feature shall be toleranced. The word shall in that version of the standard establishes a requirement. John Acosta, GDTP Senior Level
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    Does Solidworks allow making a datum symbol without a triangle to anchor it?

    borsht, Are you creating a drawing in accordance with ANSI Y14.5-1982 or before? John Acosta, GDTP Senior Level

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