I'm taking a first stab at using standard fits (from ANSI B4.2) and running into some confusion:
I have a linear motion bearing riding on a shaft; the shaft is press fit into a plate and protruding through the far side. A second component will have a slip fit on the far side of the shaft.
The...
Our electronics company has long designed our products in metric and the mating tooling & fixturing in imperial to continue making use of the in-house machine shop for tooling fabs.
I've recently began designing and submitting tools designed in metric, much to the shop's anger. The company...
Yes, you would drop a decimal place. The overall question of the use of such a decimal-place-dependent tolerance scheme in a system that truncates decimal place zeros remains, however.
Our company has historically dimensioned exclusively in english; our standard title blocks contain the typical Tolerances unless otherwise stated:
.XX+-.01
.XXX+-.005
.XXXX+-.0005
Lately we've had to produce more metric drawings or metric variants of existing drawings. Without using dual...
