USE OF NOTES TO SUPPLEMEN

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SYMBOL CONSTRUCTION. Inforr

FORGINGS
PRODUCED O N H A M M E R SA N D P R E S S E S portion of individualsymbolsdescri
LENGTH/WI
DTH TOLERANCES
Geometric CharacteristicSymbols.
shown in Figure28.
SCOPE
1. Length/Width Tolerancesrepresentvariations in dimensionsmeasuredparallel Datum ldentifying Symbol. The da
to the fundamentalparting line of the dies. Normally. they are in addition to taining the datum referenceletter
tolerancesfor die wear. The symbol is associatedwith the t
FeatureControl Symbol Placement1
TOLERANCE
Letters of the alphabet (except l, C
2. The Length/Width Tolerance is +0.003 in. per inch, 10.003 mm per mm and datum feature requiring identificat
appliesto all dimensionsof length/width includingdiameters.This tolerancein- letter. When datum featuresre.quiri
cludes allowancefor shrinkage,die sinking and die polishing variations.(The exhaustthe singlealpha series,the d
m i n i m u ms h o u l db e p l u so r m i n u s. 0 3 i n . o r . 8 m m . ) AZ.
U N I T SO F M E A S U R E Basic Dimension Symbol. The sym
3. Length/Width Tolerances,normally combined with tolerancesfor die wear are enclosethe dimensionin a f rame,ass
expressedas decimal inch in units of 0.01 or greaterand expressedas decimal MMC and RFS Symbols.The symbo
millimeter in units of .1 mm or greater.Decimalsused in computing tolerances and "regardlessof feature size" ares
are totaled and raisedto the next highest .01 in the inch system or .1 in the and R FS or their spelled-outtermsar
metric system.
DiameterSymbol, The symbol used
precedesthe specifiedtolerancein i
elsewhereon a drawingin placeof thr
Projected Tolerance Zone Symbol.
Fig.1 z o n ei s a ss h o w ni n F i g u r e3 1 .
ReferenceDimension Symbol. The s
M E T R I CC O N V E R S I O N enclosingeachsuch valuewith paren
lNCH mm Datum Target Symbol. The datum ti
.8 The letter placedin the upper left q
.03
.04 1.1 numeral placed in the lower right
3.00 76.2
6.OO 152.4
11.00 279.4

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F i g . 2 9 D A T U M I D E N T I F Y I N GS Y M E O L

LENGTH & WIDTH

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Fig.30 B A S I Co l M E N s l O N S Y M E O L