The Drawing That Said ±0.05 and Built ±0.3 A customer’s drawing called for a hole pattern on a machined plate with ±0.05 mm positional tolerance. The machine shop held each hole to ±0.02 mm individually. But when the plate mated with its counterpart, the holes were 0.3 mm off. Why? Because nobody had calculated the …

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