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Overview of Geometric Tolerances
Concept Procedure Quick Reference
 
 
 

To create geometric tolerances

  1. Click Dimension menu Tolerance.At the Command prompt, enter tolerance.
  2. In the Geometric Tolerance dialog box, click the first square under Sym and select a symbol to insert.
  3. Under Tolerance 1, click the first black box to insert a diameter symbol.
  4. In the Text box, enter the first tolerance value.
  5. To add a material condition (optional), click the second black box and click a symbol in the Material Conditions dialog box to insert it.
  6. In the Geometric Tolerance dialog box, add a second tolerance value (optional) in the same way as the first tolerance value.
  7. Under Datum 1, Datum 2, Datum 3, enter the datum reference letter.
  8. Click the black box to insert a material condition symbol for each datum reference.
  9. In the Height box, enter a height.
  10. Click the Projected Tolerance Zone box to insert the symbol.
  11. In the Datum Identifier box, add a datum value.
  12. Click OK.
  13. In the drawing, specify a location for the feature control frame.
 Toolbar: Dimension 
 Command entry: TOLERANCE