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Virtual Advanced GD&T Training on October 14-16. Limited Spots Available!
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Virtual Advanced GD&T Training on October 14-16. Limited Spots Available!

While the GD&T Fundamentals course teaches a core framework for understanding GD&T, the Advanced GD&T course builds upon this to give students a more comprehensive understanding of GD&T standards and their application. GD&T standards cover every manufacturing application across every industry, and this course fleshes out our Fundamentals course framework to show how GD&T is applied for better design for manufacturability.

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Flatness – Surface vs. Feature of Size
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Flatness – Surface vs. Feature of Size

Surface flatness is the type of flatness that most people are familiar with. On a drawing, the flatness callout can point straight to the surface with a leader arrow or be extended out from the surface and away from the feature of size.

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Reverse Inspections of Orientation
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Reverse Inspections of Orientation

I am trying to check the parallelism of the surface of a part in relation to Datum A. Is it acceptable to locate off of the surface of the part and indicate on the Datum A?

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Composite Profile Control
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Composite Profile Control

Are the Datum structures in the two examples above valid for this drawing?If they are valid, wouldn’t both examples yield the same results when inspected?

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