Actual Mating Envelope

Actual Mating Envelope has an appropriately complicated and

difficult to understand definition in the standard. However, I always
just tell people that it's the smallest perfect shape that will fit
around an external Feature of Size or the largest perfect shape that
will fit inside an internal Feature of Size.
Of course, then we need to talk about related vs. unrelated Actual
Mating Envelopes.
The figure below shows a pin that has a size and a perpendicularity
relative to a datum.
The center of the figure shows that the Unrelated Actual Envelope is
the smallest perfect cylinder that will fit over the physical cylinder
without regard to the datum. Most of the time, the Unrelated Actual
Mating Envelope will almost never be perfectly perpendicular to the
datum.
The right side of the figure shows that the Related Actual Mating
Envelope is the smallest perfect cylinder that is perpendicular to the
datum and fits around the physical cylinder. The Related Actual
Mating Envelope is always perpendicular to the datum.
The Related Actual Mating Envelope is also known as the Virtual
Condition.
The size of the Unrelated Actual Mating Envelope is considered to be
the size of the pin.
The axis of the Unrelated Actual Mating Envelope is considered to be
the axis of the pin.

The figure below shows Actual Mating Envelope for an internal

Feature of Size.
The center of the figure shows that the Unrelated Actual Envelope is
the largest perfect cylinder that will fit inside the physical cylinder
without regard to the datum. Most of the time, the Unrelated Actual
Mating Envelope will almost never be perfectly perpendicular to the
datum.
The right side of the figure shows that the Related Actual Mating
Envelope is the largest perfect cylinder that is perpendicular to the
datum and fits inside the physical cylinder. The Related Actual
Mating Envelope is always perpendicular to the datum.
The Related Actual Mating Envelope is also known as the Virtual
Condition.
The size of the Unrelated Actual Mating Envelope is considered to be
the size of the hole.
The axis of the Unrelated Actual Mating Envelope is considered to be
the axis of the hole.