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    Tolerance Profile Surface or Profile Line

    Thanks all. This is a "pawl" used in a gear box. It's a pretty simple part to machine really. Lots of radii locations programmed on a machining center. Its for a company overseas that is mandating a mountain of ppwk. thundair, your error example doesn't compute to me. Is there a formula for...
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    Tolerance Profile Surface or Profile Line

    Thanks. I have it cadded out. Its a curve with 14 XY basics. It's profile of a line w/in 0.1 and it fits within the profile zone on my overlay. I still dont really understand how I can give these guys numbers though. They want to know what the "profile" actually measures. Any ideas? Thanks...
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    Tolerance Profile Surface or Profile Line

    I have a question regarding the proper way to report profile of a line. I need to layout a part for a German company. It's my understanding that they asking for actually numbers. I've only inspected profiles using an overlay and comparator and only as attribute data. Pass/fail. I do not have a...

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