Advanced GD&T Competencies: Datum Usage Web Seminar RePlay

While the basics of datums are covered in a standard Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T) course, those discussions often overlook the variations that enable datums to be used in complex ways. This advanced course will detail the proper use of datums, showing their full potential to make your drawings as effective as possible. Most people who use GD&T are familiar with traditional datums derived from flat surfaces, and have adequate knowledge of the principle of establishing 3-2-1 contact points. In this web seminar, participants will learn to select, identify, simulate, and describe datums and datum features for special uses such as irregular shapes, flexible parts, and datum references that use the maximum material modifier. Also covered are several new modifiers and options given in the ASME Y14.5-2009 standard. Learning these advanced techniques will allow designers to better communicate certain requirements.

What Will You Learn

By participating in this course, you'll be able to:

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

COURSE LENGTH

1.50 Hours

ACCESS PERIOD

90 Days

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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