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EngineeringDrawings: GeometricTolerancing

AshortseriesoflecturesonEngineeringDrawingasPartofMECH24005400: MechanicalDesign1ByPaulBriozzo

GeometricTolerancing

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GeometricTolerancing Whatisit?

GeometricTolerancing
UnlikeDimensionalTolerancethatconcernsitselfwithsizecontrol, GeometricTolerancing concernsitselfwithshapecontrol GeometricTolerancing influencesthemanufacturingandinspection processchosen GeometricTolerancing isrequiredinfeaturesinindustriessuchas Aerospacecomponentmanufacture Automobilecomponentmanufacture Precisionmachinerymanufacture Biomedicalcomponentmanufacture GeometricTolerancing isusedwherehighinterchangeofpartsis required GeometricTolerancing andDimensionalTolerancing arelinked

BasicConceptsofGeometry Tolerancing
GeometryTolerancesarespecifiedaccordingtofunctional requirements:Useitifitisneeded,ifnotDONOTasitaddstothe expenseofthemanufacture,inspectionofacomponentandclarityof anengineeringdrawing. Dependingonthefeaturetobetoleranced andthewayinwhichitis dimensioned,thetolerancezonewillbeoneof: Thespacebetweentwoparallellines Thespacewithinacircle Thespacebetweentwoconcentriccircles Thespacewithinacylinder Thespacebetweentwocoaxialcylinders Thespacebetweentwoequidistantsurfaces Thespacewithinasphere

GeometryTolerancing SymbolicStructure

InterpretationofGeometry Tolerancing Flatness


AFlatnesstoleranceisusedtocontroltheflatnessofasurface.The tolerancezoneisaspecifiedspaceseparatingtwoparallelplanes betweenwhichthesurfacetobecontrolledmustlie.

Straightness
Astraightnesstolerancemaybeusedtocontrol: 1.Straightnessofaline 2.Straightnessofanaxisinasingleplane 3.Straightnessoftheaxesofsolidsofrevolution

Perpendicularity
Aperpendicularity toleranceisusedtocontrol: 1.alinewithrespecttoadatumline 2.anaxiswithrespecttoadatumplane

3.asurfacewithrespecttoadatumaxis 4.asurfacewithrespecttoadatumplane

Position
Apositiontoleranceisusedtocontrolthelocationofafeatureby limitingitsdeviationfromaspecifiedtrueposition. 1.aholeaxis 2.asurface

Position(Concentricity)
Aconcentricitytoleranceisusedtocontrolaconditioninwhich twoormorefeaturessuchascircles,spherescylinders,conesor hexagonsarerequiredtoshareacommoncentreoraxis

CaseStudy QantasA380OilStubPipe
Latein2010,aQantasA380sufferedacatastrophicfailureofoneofits fourmainRollsRoyceengines.Investigationspointtoafailureinanoil stubpipecausedbyamanufacturingdefect.

Position(Symmetry)
Asymmetrytoleranceisusedtocontrolaconditioninwhichoneormore featuresaresymmetricallydisposedeithersideofacentreline(axis)orcentre plane(median)ofanotherfeaturewhichisspecifiedasthedatum.

Cylindricity
Acylindricity tolerancespecifiesatolerancezoneconsistingofanannularspacebetween twocoaxialcylindershavingadifferenceinradiiequaltothespecifiedtolerance.

Angularity
Anangularitytoleranceisusedtocontrolangularrelationshipsofanyanglebetween straightline(axes)orsurfaceswithstraightlineelementssuchasflatorcylindricalsurfaces

Circularity
Acircularitytolerancespecifiesthewidthofanannulartolerancezone,boundedbytwo concentriccirclesinthesameplanewithinwhichthecircumferenceofthefeaturemustlie.

Parallelism
Aparallelismtoleranceisusedtocontroltheorientationoffeaturesrelatedtooneanother byanangleofzerodegrees.

Example(ABadOne)

EffectsofCombiningLinear andGeometricTolerances
Intolerancing featuresofsizeonmatingcomponentswhereeaseofassemblyisimportant,it shouldberealisedthattheleastfavourableconditionforassemblyoccurswhenmatingsizes arethemaximummaterialsizeallowablebytheindividualtoleranceofeachcomponent.

Greatervariationsin shapegeometrycanbe acceptedasthemating sizesapproachtheir leastmaterialsize.

VirtualSize
Virtualsizereferstothedimensionoftheoverallenvelopeofperfectformwhichtouchesthe highestpointsofafeature. Forashaft,itisthemaximummeasured sizeplustheactualeffectofform variationssuchasflatness,straightness, roundness,cylindricity andprofile.

Forahole,itistheminimummeasured sizeminustheactualeffectofform variationssuchasflatness,straightness, roundness,cylindricity andprofile.

InterpretthisExampleof GeometricTolerancing

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