basic dimension versus tolerance dimension
basic dimension versus tolerance dimension
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Hello,
I am really confused by GD&T. Sometimes I am told to use basic dimension to dimension an aligning hole, sometimes I am told to use tolerance limit +.005, -.000 for mating part 1, and +.000, -.005 for mating part 2.
My question is when to use basic dimension and when to use limit tolerancing?
Thank you
I am really confused by GD&T. Sometimes I am told to use basic dimension to dimension an aligning hole, sometimes I am told to use tolerance limit +.005, -.000 for mating part 1, and +.000, -.005 for mating part 2.
My question is when to use basic dimension and when to use limit tolerancing?
Thank you





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RE: basic dimension versus tolerance dimension
Other than taking a GD&T class, performing a tolerance stack-up analysis on your assembly will probably answer your question.
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I took a basic CAD course in my senior year of college, and unfortunately it didn't focus on GD&T.
I do need some training, and your advice about the best website to learn about GD&T will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Lokho
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some very useful information.
Shaun
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That is some really useful website.
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Look up the ASME website, www.asme.org, to find when they may be having the next training seminar in your area.
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Here is a website for good solid GD&T Training:
http://www.geotol.com/abouttci.htm
Another plug for Al Neumann
Best Regards,
Heckler
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
SW2005 SP 5.0 & Pro/E 2001
Dell Precision 370
P4 3.6 GHz, 1GB RAM
XP Pro SP2.0
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
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RE: basic dimension versus tolerance dimension
I have also used iigdt (www.iigdt.com) for training, and their material is also pretty decent.
Jim Sykes, P.Eng, GDTP-S
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They also give training.
Gary Whitemire who is the ceo or something is on the ASME commitee for 14.5 if memory serves.
RE: basic dimension versus tolerance dimension
RE: basic dimension versus tolerance dimension
As a general rule, basic dimensions on hole patterns work well when interchangeability is a consideration. Otherwise they may not be preferred. Example that comes to mind, rivet patterns.
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If your manufacturing personel can't handle it you have a problem.
Use positional when a pattern of holes in one part has to match a pattern of wholes in another part or for interchangeability as above so you don't have to match drill.
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In my opinion this is a problem.
My solution would be to find vendors that know what they're doing but it's not that simple apparantly.
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A good supplier is easier to train than to replace. If you have in-house GD&T training, or external seminars that you subscribe to, compel your suppliers to get on board.
I had a meeting a few years back with some 40+ suppliers who would be impacted by a GD&T implementation. It was an "Introduction To GD&T" session with discussions and introductory training. I explained that the business was going GD&T, and all suppliers would eventually be required to work in GD&T without impact to us. One supplier asked what would happen if they didn't comply; another supplier said "Which parts do you make? I can take care of them." That was the end of the resistance.
I had one supplier quote a part for $500 that had cost $80 before; the tolerances had been opened wide and surface finishes roughed to allow sawing with no grinding or milling afterwards. The in-house buyer thought that "proved" that GD&T was going to cost us money. I had the supplier and the buyer in a conference room after that and educated them both; the buyer became a "reluctant believer" and the supplier lost the business to someone else who understood the drawings and dropped the price below the original $80. Word got around to other suppliers and suddently I had much more interest in attending training, and requests for GD&T drawing corrections started to come in. The message will get out there.
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That sounds kind of like how I'd expect, or at least like to think, it should happen.
Here they're loathed to change suppliers (don't get me started) so if the suppliers resist it the suppliers get their way. Competative tendoring to some degree would probably help but that is also a rarity here, again don't get me started.
I think the idea of explaining it to suppliers & maybe getting training or what ever was nixed before I started here.
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A couple of colleagues and I kept running into the "purchasing" walls ... "we don't do it that way", "that's now how we do it", and "they're an honest supplier and they come through for us when we need it", etc. While I was fighting the GD&T battle, a colleague saw the crap being spoon-fed to us about the cost of some new parts (PVC tubing with rounded edges and two grooves inside). My colleague's buddy owned a machine shop, so we chatted...got our manager's ok to get a quote directly without purchasing's involvement...got the quote; it was 75-80% lower. We didn't get to use the new supplier (politics again) but we did get the price down to the same range at least. Ticked off Purchasing, but we got the point across and some changes were made.
I've learned through many concussions that beating your head against the wall doesn't work ... if an engineer wants to make changes it's very important to remember that it's easier to get forgiveness than permission. If the suppliers need training, suggest to your management team that it become a requirement. You don't have to pay for it, the supplier does; it's a cost of doing business.
Jim Sykes, P.Eng, GDTP-S
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Also GD&T is just one aspect of the larger battle of drawing standards and some parts of purchasing have been allies in certain aspects so we don't want to upset them at this stage.
That said in a couple of areas I've pushed the 'it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission' line so maybe I'm just too strategic for my own good
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Jim Sykes, P.Eng, GDTP-S
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