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GD&T Parallelism on a stepped part.

GD&T Parallelism on a stepped part.

GD&T Parallelism on a stepped part.

(OP)


Howdy,

Would you all have a look at the image I uploaded. I'm curious how others would interpret this callout.
Datum A is the step on the bottom right. The surface to be parallel is the top left.

If it were to have a MMC call out, my understanding is I could make a theoretical "box a", 5.100 in width and as long as the part fit in it it's okay. Without the MMC, the box would be whatever the face measured at +.050...so a little difficult to make a test fixture... but that's what it means right?

However, I'm being told that the parallelism only applies to the top left step... and essentially I can have a .050 wide "box b" as drawn. Pretty much place -A- on a surface plate and a test indicator cant move out more than .050"

I would love what I'm being told is right. I know that was the intent of what was drawn. But, I don't believe that is what the callout on the print "says".

I ask this because I have parts that would not fit in the "box a" interpretation, but pretty much every part fits in the "box b" interpretation.

Thanks!

RE: GD&T Parallelism on a stepped part.

It's my understand that attaching the FCF as you have means a plane centered between the two steps must be parallel to A. This is commonly done when attaching a FCF to a diametric dimension, to specify a control on the center line of that feature.

What you need to do is attach the FCF to the top extension line of the dimension, not the dimension value.

(Apologies for the edits, deleting previous citations which were in error - I am too distracted to properly cite, hopefully someone else can point the way)

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NX8.0, Solidworks 2014, AutoCAD, Enovia V5

RE: GD&T Parallelism on a stepped part.

(OP)
Yes. From what I read sounds like JNIEMAN agrees with me. Yes the FCF should be off the top extension line to mean what box b is showing.

(Notice: apparently box b is hard to see online)

RE: GD&T Parallelism on a stepped part.

You can't apply MMC to that callout because the 5.000 dim is not a feature of size.

John-Paul Belanger
Certified Sr. GD&T Professional
Geometric Learning Systems

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