GD&T Fundamentals

Who should attend:

All those who use GD&T to design, produce and inspect parts: mechanical engineers,
designers, managers, production planners, inspectors, machinists, supplier quality personnel,
etc.
The Need:
A concurrent engineering team equipped with the proper tools has the ability to shorten time to
market, reduce engineering changes and create a robust quality design. Design decisions
should be optimized for quality cost and delivery at the sketch phase when an engineering
change costs a few cents rather than hundreds or thousands of dollars months later. The
drawing is the common thread of the concurrent engineering team.
This is the first in a series of seminars that presents understandable user friendly tools that
may be used by your entire team to get it right the first time. By using these methods, design
decisions are based on fact rather than emotion and past practices.

Course description: (3 days)

You'll discover the major pitfalls of traditional coordinate tolerancing - and how they may be
overcome by using Geometric Tolerancing. Then, starting with your basic blueprint knowledge,
you'll learn the symbols, terminology and rules of Geometric Tolerancing as prescribed in the
current standard (ASME Y14.5M-1994). The GD&T Hierarchy will be presented to explain the
relationship between tolerances and how to most economically apply the concepts.
Introduction
Course Objectives
Geometric Shapes
Time for Drawing Previews!
What is GD&T?
The GD&T Hierarchy
Features
GD&T is as easy as 1-2-3
Material Conditions

Form

Flatness
Straightness
Circularity (Roundness)

Cylindricity
Orientation
Perpendicularity
Parallelism

Feature of Size (Rule #1)

Relationship
Rule #2

Screw Thread Rule

Datums
Six Degrees of Freedom
Datums
Datum Features
Simulators
Symbol Placement
Datum Precedence
Datum Targets
Datum Guidelines
Virtual Condition

Free State

Additional Information:
Customizing is available
We prefer working with your prints
when possible
Free phone, FAX or email
consultation is available following
the course

All courses are taught in

accordance with the American
National Standards unless
requested otherwise

Profile

Angularity
Tangent Plane
Profile Tolerance Zones
Composite Profile
Coplanarity

Applications
Position
Composite Position
Implied Conditions
Symmetry
Coaxial Features
A Comparison of
Runout
Concentricity
Fixed and Floating Fasteners
Floating Fastener
Fixed Fastener

Projected Tolerance Zone