Geometric Tolerance

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Opens the Geometric Tolerance dialog box, which is used to build a feature control frame that indicates geometric tolerancing.

Geometric tolerancing is the specification of how much a manufactured object can deviate from the geometry shown in the design. Feature control frames contain geometric tolerance symbols.

Geometric Tolerance dialog box

To build and place a feature control frame

1. Select the Geometric Tolerance tool.
   The Geometric Tolerance dialog box opens along with the Text Editor window. The Active Font is temporarily set to a geometric tolerance font.


2. To place a leader line with the feature control frame, choose Place Note from the Tool option menu in the dialog box.
   or
   To place only a feature control frame, choose Place Text.
   The chosen tool is selected.


3. Click buttons in the Geometric Tolerance dialog box to select the desired symbols.
   The symbols display as lowercase characters in the Text Editor window but appear as symbols in the dynamically displayed text element.
   In the Text Editor dialog box, you can intersperse standard characters with symbols by typing uppercase letters or numerals. In the Word Processor, you can enter symbols only.


4. Enter a data point to position the feature control frame.


5. If Tool is set to Place Note, enter a data point.
   If Location is set to Automatic or Semi-Automatic, this data point indicates the location of the end of the leader line and the text and completes the note.
   If Location is set to Manual, you can enter more data points to define additional vertices of the leader line. Reset to end the note.

Key-in: MDL LOAD GEOMTOL