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Rounding or not of tolerance in FCF with Dual Dimensioning

Rounding or not of tolerance in FCF with Dual Dimensioning

Rounding or not of tolerance in FCF with Dual Dimensioning

(OP)
Just a general question

When dual dimensioning a print that has GD&T. When converting the metric tolerance in the FCF, do you round if the 4th number is over 5? example - .4mm = .0157 would you round up? or leave it at .015?

Solid Edge V20

RE: Rounding or not of tolerance in FCF with Dual Dimensioning

What do your tolerance stacks permit?

RE: Rounding or not of tolerance in FCF with Dual Dimensioning

(OP)
this one is .1mm total tolerance

Solid Edge V20

RE: Rounding or not of tolerance in FCF with Dual Dimensioning

One rule of thumb I would use is that the tolerance of the secondary unit is to be equal or less than the primary. If the tolearance is rounded to a number that is greater than the primary tolerance, it would be possible to pass a part on the basis of the secondary tolerance that would not pass per the primary tolerance.

Peter Stockhausen
Senior Design Analyst (Checker)
Infotech Aerospace Services

RE: Rounding or not of tolerance in FCF with Dual Dimensioning

cadman1964,

   I think we have had this discussion a couple of times.

   Do not generate dual dimension fabrication drawings.  Use one set of units to show requirements.  Provide the alternate units for reference, only.

   On a 3D CAD package like SolidWorks, you can get away with some stupidity, since the computer is working out the dimensions and the conversions.  The numbers in your FCF almost certainly are typed, and you are manually calculating each conversion factor.  What is the shop allowed to do when the numbers do not agree?

               JHG

RE: Rounding or not of tolerance in FCF with Dual Dimensioning

This is the problem with dual dimensioned prints. I worked at a place that insisted on them despite my objections so I had a note in the title block that said inches were the manufacturing units and the mm were for reference only. I think you will have to settle on one set of units as inspectable and the other as reference. If the mm units become reference, then I believe rounding up is fine. That's what I did. The other thing I would do is change my inches to match mm like instead of applying a flatness of .005 to a surface, I would make it .004 and that would give me 0,1 to put in the FCF.

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RE: Rounding or not of tolerance in FCF with Dual Dimensioning

(OP)

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I think we have had this discussion a couple of times.   Do not generate dual dimension fabrication drawings.  Use one set of units to show requirements.  Provide the alternate units for reference, only.

Yes i do know that's the better practice. but, this is customer generated and sometimes, even knowing were not product designers, we have to draw there part up to there standard.

 

Solid Edge V20

RE: Rounding or not of tolerance in FCF with Dual Dimensioning

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See that's the problem, just like going all metric, it will never die. So that's something i'll never understand why the took that out of the ASME standard

But, Ty everyone for everyones post's. I do agree with rounding up to the rules that i learned as a young man and stated by other's.  

Solid Edge V20

RE: Rounding or not of tolerance in FCF with Dual Dimensioning

I don't know why it was taken out, but my opinion is that it should've never have been included in the first place.  

By definition, dual dimensioning is a form of soft conversion, which is explicitly disallowed by ANSI/ASME Y14.5 (regardless of the release).  

Also, when converting tolerances, you create two different (though similar) tolerance ranges which allows for for more than one interpretation of each specification, which is also explicitly disallowed by ANSI/ASME regardless of the release.

Matt Lorono
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RE: Rounding or not of tolerance in FCF with Dual Dimensioning

Some CAD programs (Pro/E is one) round the secondary units so that their tolerance band is always inside (smaller than) the primary units.  This way, people that insist on using secondary units will not produce parts that get rejected when inspected in the primary units.  Independently adjusting the number of decimal places in each display is also possible.

I hate it but we do make some dual dimension prints this way.

RE: Rounding or not of tolerance in FCF with Dual Dimensioning

I thought the to be Dimnensioned dimension was the one on top, that was the dimension and tolerance to be met.  Then the dimension in the brackets was for reference only.  How, where and when I picked this information up I do not recall.

RE: Rounding or not of tolerance in FCF with Dual Dimensioning

(OP)

Quote:

I thought the to be Dimnensioned dimension was the one on top, that was the dimension and tolerance to be met.  Then the dimension in the brackets was for reference only.  How, where and when I picked this information up I do not recall.

This is a very true statement. But, like in my shop, the guy's will look at the non metric thats in the brackets.  

Solid Edge V20

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