Thankyou, And thank you for the link to the previous discussion.
I hadn't seen the practice before and I didn't remember the practice being part of Y14.5. I thought that the target value was an important piece of information for the machinist; tolerances could be, and in some situations...
Anyone ever see a double positive tolerance? (e.g 1.000 +0.005 +0.008)
I've always thought the target value must be between the maximum and minumum value; and was selected by the engineer based on maximizing yield depending on how the part would be made, and on maximizing performance of the...