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    Primary Datum Material Modified

    Thanks for the replies! Mkcski, you are hitting on one of my main questions. "The amount of available shift with multiple datums FOS is cumulative and dependent on the shift provide by the higher precedence datums." With the dimension and FCF in red from my original post. The shift(up and...
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    Primary Datum Material Modified

    Drawoh, Thanks for the reply. I agree the drawing is badly prepared and Datum A should be a face(which they are probably using during inspection process). Seems like the designer placed MMC modifiers at every possible location. After looking thru the 73&82 standards, I do see primary datums...
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    Primary Datum Material Modified

    In the attached image, what does it mean when B is material modified? With both B and C datums material modified does that allow for .002 datum shift? Is this allowed per the standard?http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=21e643bf-a557-405c-a4cf-e04be80e6581&file=GDT_Question.JPG

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