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Offset between hole and slot datum.
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powerhound
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Yes, you can call out a hole as a datum feature and a slot as another datum feature and they do not have to be aligned.
John Acosta, GDTP S-0731
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John Acosta, GDTP S-0731
Engineering Technician
Inventor 2013
Mastercam X6
Smartcam 11.1
SSG, U.S. Army
Taji, Iraq OIF II
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- Sep 2, 2008
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For a confirmation of powerhound's words, you may want to take a look to Y14.5-2009, page 74, fig. 4-32.
I could not find proper example in '94 edition of the standard, but this absolutely does not mean that such practice was not allowed in pre-2009 era.
I could not find proper example in '94 edition of the standard, but this absolutely does not mean that such practice was not allowed in pre-2009 era.
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