Thanks for your help drawoh and ewh! I really appreciate it!!! I obtained a copy of ASME Y14.5M-1994 and read through Section 6.5 on Profile Control and I think I now understand profile control and geometric tolerancing much better -- though I am still a long, long way from being an expert :) ...
I would like to thank everyone for their comments regarding my previous question on tolerances and basic dimensions. I now have a follow-up question on geometric tolerances. If a dimension is an absolute dimension from a datum, say 15.000 mm from datum C and the 15.000 dimension line has an...
How do you determine the tolerance of a basic dimension? I know that a basic dimension is the theoretically exact size of a characteristic, but in manufacturing an item, even these dimensions must have some type of tolerance. Yet, when I see drawings with basic dimensions, I never see them...
