Description Definition: Total Runout is how much one entire feature or surface varies with respect to a datum when the … More
Category: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
MECHANICAL DESIGN ENGINEERING – Geometrical Dimensioning and Tolerancing_What is the CIRCULAR RUNOUT tolerance?
Runout is one of the oldest and simplest concepts used in GD & T. Maybe as a child you stood … More
MECHANICAL DESIGN ENGINEERING – Geometrical Dimensioning and Tolerancing_What is the SYMMETRY tolerance?
Among the 14 used GD & T symbols in the category of Location Tolerances there are 3 types. From these … More
MECHANICAL DESIGN ENGINEERING – Geometrical Dimensioning and Tolerancing_What is the CONCENTRICITY tolerance?
The functionality of a part in an assembly is usually well defined by the 4 form tolerances (straigthness, flatness, circularity … More
MECHANICAL DESIGN ENGINEERING – Geometrical Dimensioning and Tolerancing_What is the POSITION tolerance?
Location tolerances determine the nominal location or ideal location of a feature relative to one or more references. This results … More
MECHANICAL DESIGN ENGINEERING – Geometrical Dimensioning and Tolerancing_What is the ANGULARITY tolerance?
Objects made as an assembly of more than 1 component, in order to be functional besides a clearly specified form … More
MECHANICAL DESIGN ENGINEERING – Geometrical Dimensioning and Tolerancing_What is the PERPENDICULARITY tolerance?
In a mechanical design of an assembly made up of various parts it is often the case to make sure … More
MECHANICAL DESIGN ENGINEERING – Geometrical Dimensioning and Tolerancing_What is the PARALLELISM tolerance?
When you create a part as CAD data sure you can create a beautiful animation and virtually your part is … More
MECHANICAL DESIGN ENGINEERING – Geometrical Dimensioning and Tolerancing_What is the SURFACE PROFILE tolerance?
For quite a long time mechanical parts were controled based on their regular forms such as planar form, cylindrical form … More
MECHANICAL DESIGN ENGINEERING – Geometrical Dimensioning and Tolerancing_What is the LINE PROFILE tolerance?
The mechanical description of a part is usually done by using simple geometrical form features such as lines, planes, circles … More