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Applications of GD&T Workshop
For product engineers, designers, checkers, engineering managers, and supplier quality engineers
This 2-day workshop teaches the thought processes involved in assigning GD&T to components. It will change the way many engineers think about part tolerancing.

The workshop focuses on four key areas:

• Understanding what constitutes good and poor drawing practices
• Understanding the common dimensioning methods used in industry
• Using geometric tolerancing to communicate system functions on component dimensions
• Understanding the logic of how to apply GD&T to components.

Customer supplies an assembly drawing and a set of corresponding detail drawings (and physical parts, if possible) to ETI four weeks prior to the workshop.

Who Should Attend
This workshop is designed for product engineers, designers, checkers, and engineering managers, and supplier quality engineers.

Workshop Highlights
Students will learn how to do a design functional analysis on an assembly and use this information to assign dimensions and tolerances. They will also learn how to select datum features and how to fully define component surfaces using GD&T. Establishing tolerance values is not covered.

Small groups (8-12) are most effective in this workshop. The students will work in teams and actually create GD&T tolerance mark-ups of their company parts in the workshop.

Each workshop participant receives:

• Applications of GD&T Workshop Excercise Workbook
• Course notes
• Drawing handouts
• Cerficate of completion

Format: This workshop teaches the thought process involved in assigning GD&T to components. Topics covered include:

Introduction
Course goals and information

Importance of technically correct drawings
Purpose of drawings
Importance of drawings
Poor drawings and drawing excuses
Definition and benefits of a technically correct drawing

Principles and guidelines for making technically correct drawings
Standards
The principles of dimensioning
Drawing discussion

Common tolerancing approaches
Four common tolerancing approaches
Comparison of tolerancing approaches
Advantages and disadvantages of the tolerancing approaches
Workshop tolerancing approach

Specifying datums based on mounting and performing features
Two types of datum features
Mounting datum feature selection
Performing datum feature selection
Qualifying datum features
Datum discussion

Understanding the five-step approach to functionally dimensioning a component
The five-step approach
Design function analysis
How to tolerance a part
Dimensioning compromises

Customer GD&T application
Design function analysis
Datum selection
Component tolerancing

Students who attend our workshops walk away with more than knowledge. They gain on-the-job skills because our materials are performance-based, and each workshop approaches the subject from a design perspective.

For more onsite workshop information — or to request a custom quote package — contact a GD&T account executive at 1-800-886-0909, email sales@etinews.com, or use our online training quote request form.