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Perpendicularity

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Enrico Urru

Bioengineer
Aug 13, 2023
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Hi everyone,

I am drafting a drawing of a toggle lever with a threaded hole for an insert. I set a control frame to control the perpendicularity of the hole with respect to datum A.

Should the dimensions for locating the threaded hole be basic dimensions? I am referring to 20 and 12, see the picture attached.
Thank you.
 
 https://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=ae029400-2d61-48c7-adbd-72f6d5cdd096&file=Technical_Drawing.PNG
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There should be basic dimensions for the location of the hole. But these basic dimensions would not be related to the perpendicularity tolerance, but to a position tolerance that should control the location of the hole.
The basic dimension that would be related to the perpendicularity requirement is an implied 90° angle.
There should be a datum reference frame established from sufficient datum features to fully define the hole's location. The basic dimensions for location need to originate from the datum features.
 
Thank you for the feedback.

I have made changes to the drawing in order to fully constrain the location of the hole.
By using a position control frame, am I still able to obtain perpendicularity? Is there anything I should change in the drawing? See update.
Thank you.
 
 https://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=ec0ccce1-75dc-47fa-a167-9d3b663d4878&file=Technical_Drawing1.PNG
Is this per ASME Y14.5-???? or ISO GPS standard?

Locating a feature from an intersection of two surfaces that are not both datum features is not appropriate.
 
Hi Dave,

Thank you for the reply.

ISO standards.

What surfaces are you referring to? I used datum features C and B to locate the hole.

How should I locate the feature in the best way?
 
Enrico,

Just add a basic angular dimension between surfaces B and A and this will make the position callout correct.

A thing to remember is that in order to establish a datum system in a repeatable way, the datum features used to establish the datum system should be toleranced with respect to each other. (e.g., in this case B should be controlled with an orientation tolerance with respect to A, and C should be controlled with an orientation tolerance with respect to A primary and B secondary.
 
The 12 mm dimension is to an edge that is the intersection between two surfaces, only one of which is a datum so there is no true origin for that dimension to locate the true position of the hole.
 
Hi Dave,
Yes I see, I mistakened the surface where the datum A was referenced. The drawing as it is, shows that edge to be part only of datum B.

Thank you.
 
Yes, you are right, 3DDave. A is not the surface in which the hole is made. I misread the print.

Enrico,
Is there a functional reason for that? Shouldn't A be the other surface?
 
Okay, so with A corrected, my initial response holds water.
 
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