Advanced GD&T Competencies: Datum Usage Web Seminar RePlay
What Will You Learn
- Explain the difference between a datum and a datum feature
- Select appropriate datums for irregularly shaped parts such as body or interior panels
- Properly simulate given datums
- Explain effects of a modified datum on a geometric tolerance
- Interpret new datum tools such as translation and custom degrees of freedom
Course Information
Is This Course For You
This advanced-level course is intended for designers, product engineers, manufacturing engineers, manufacturing personnel, and quality/gaging inspectors with a basic knowledge of GD&T concepts. It is a companion to the Advanced GD&T Competencies: Profile of a Surface and Composite Positioning web seminars.
Prerequisites
For those new to GD&T, the Fundamentals of Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing Web Seminar is a recommended prerequisite.
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Materials Provided
- 90 days of online single-user access (from date of purchase) to the approximately one and one half hour recorded presentation
- Course workbook (downloadable, .pdf's)
- Online learning assessment
- Instructor follow up to your content questions
- .15 CEUs*/Certificate of Achievement (upon completion of all course content and a score of 70% or higher on the learning assessment)
*SAE International is authorized by IACET to offer CEUs for this course.
Course Requirements
- Windows or macOS
- Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari (Other OSs and browsers including mobile devices are not supported by may work)
- Broadband-3Mbps minimum
Topics
- Brief review of traditional datum usage
- Selecting datums: surface vs. feature of size
- Use of the MMB modifier (formerly MMC)
- Using a pattern as a single datum
- The new translation modifier
- Applying the "M" modifier to a surface
- Customized degrees of freedom
- Irregular feature of size datums
- Moveable datum targets
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