Geometric tolerances specify allowable variations in a component's geometric shape, such as straightness, flatness, circularity, cylindricity, parallelism, perpendicularity, angularity, concentricity, symmetry, and position. These geometric tolerances define tolerance zones that a feature must fall within. Common datum features such as surfaces, edges, and holes are used to establish the reference for measuring geometric tolerances.
Geometric tolerances specify allowable variations in a component's geometric shape, such as straightness, flatness, circularity, cylindricity, parallelism, perpendicularity, angularity, concentricity, symmetry, and position. These geometric tolerances define tolerance zones that a feature must fall within. Common datum features such as surfaces, edges, and holes are used to establish the reference for measuring geometric tolerances.
Geometric tolerances specify allowable variations in a component's geometric shape, such as straightness, flatness, circularity, cylindricity, parallelism, perpendicularity, angularity, concentricity, symmetry, and position. These geometric tolerances define tolerance zones that a feature must fall within. Common datum features such as surfaces, edges, and holes are used to establish the reference for measuring geometric tolerances.
Geometric shape of a component is considered exact unless
specified. e. g. Straight line means straightness Circle means that the profile is exactly circular Parallel line means that these are exactly parallel Lines at right angles to each other implies perpendicularity. These form variations are called as geometric tolerances and these also have to be within limits. And less than the Dimensional tolerances. Types of tolerances Terminology • Geometric Tolerance: It is the maximum permissible variation of form, orientation, location and run out specified on a production drawing. • Tolerance Zone: It is an imaginary zone within which a component must be contained. • Feature : It is specified portion of a component such as hole, slot surface or profile. • Axis : Axis is the theoretical straight line about which a circular feature revolves.
• Median : It is the center line of a straight or a
bent shaft. Frame • Frame is a box having some partitions. • Datum : It is a theoretical point, lines or a plane from which dimensions are measured and geometric tolerances are referenced. • Datum Feature : A datum feature is a feature of a part, such as an edge, surface, or a hole, which forms the basis for a datum or is used to establish its location • Datum triangle : Datum is shown by a triangle (open or filled) on the datum feature.
• Datum letter : It is an upper case letter enclosed in a
box to indicate an arbitrary name of a datum. Tolerance Symbols Form tolerance for single features • Straightness : Straightness of a line/axis or of a line on a surface is the perpendicular distance between two parallel lines touching the crest and the valleys of the line/surface. • Flatness : Flatness is the distance between two imaginary planes enclosing the actual surface at the lowermost and uppermost positions. • Circularity (Roundness): Tolerance value of circularity is the difference maximum and minimum radii of a cylinder any section. • Cylindricity : Cylindricity is the difference in value of radii between two imaginary cylinders, enveloping cylinders at outermost and innermost surfaces. • Profile of a line : The variation lies between the two curves which envelop the actual curve. • Profile of a Surface : Tolerance zone for a profile of a surface is the space between two surfaces of same profile which envelopes the highest and the lowest point of the surface keeping the same profile. Tolerance on related features • Parallelism : Tolerance on parallelism is the zone between two parallel surfaces enveloping the feature in relation to the datum surface. • Perpendicularity : Perpendicularity tolerance is the zone between two perpendicular planes to the datum within which the controlled feature should lie. • Also called as tolerance on squareness. • Angularity : Tolerance on angularity is the zone between two parallel planes inclined to the datum plane at the specified angle in which the controlled feature lies.
• Angularity is not defined in terms of angles.
• Concentricity : Tolerance on concentricity is the diameter of a circular zone within which the axes of the two cylindrical features may offset from each other. • Symmetry : Symmetry means the position of a feature is symmetric in relation to datum. • Position : The actual centre of the circle may lie within a tolerance zone indicated by a small circle of diameter 0.1 mm. Run out • Circular Run out : Circular run out is the deviation from an ideal surface when a part is rotated by 3600. It could be radial or axial both. • Total Run out : Total run out is not a circular run out at one particular position but found when the dial indicator is moved axially over the entire surface parallel to the axis of datum while the part is being turned. • The difference between the minimum and maximum dial indicator reading from the beginning to the end while rotating the surface is the total run out. Tolerance Symbols