Does the new Geo Tol GD&T library support simultaneous evaluation for
composite position, or do you still have to construct customized DRF's / BF alignments to achieve?
If it isn't supported, at the least have an error message appear letting the user know the 2nd segment composite isn't being simultaneously evaluated. In Xact, it displays the DOF's for each segment and you can quickly tell (while doing a simultaneous dimension), multiple second segment DOF's - at least letting you know they're not being evaluating simultaneously. The DOF's seems be be removed by default in Geo Tol which would make it even more misleading that composites are not being sim'd.
I so agree. I was using simultaneous for a while to evaluate composite positions of different size holes and my boss found in the help file that the simultaneous feature does not evaluate the lower segment. I looked over some of the reports are realized that the numbers were just too good to be true. It would have been nice to have a warning about that. However, that mistake is mostly on me as I did not read the help file thoroughly.
My first thought was, what is the point of simultaneous evaluation if the lower segment is not evaluated simultaneously? I later calmed down when I realized it works well for simultaneous single segment GD&T callouts that are not fully constrained. Also, I read on the forum that if you break up the upper and lower segments and report them separately the math mostly works out right.
If it isn't supported, at the least have an error message appear letting the user know the 2nd segment composite isn't being simultaneously evaluated. In Xact, it displays the DOF's for each segment and you can quickly tell (while doing a simultaneous dimension), multiple second segment DOF's - at least letting you know they're not being evaluating simultaneously. The DOF's seems be be removed by default in Geo Tol which would make it even more misleading that composites are not being sim'd.
I so agree. I was using simultaneous for a while to evaluate composite positions of different size holes and my boss found in the help file that the simultaneous feature does not evaluate the lower segment. I looked over some of the reports are realized that the numbers were just too good to be true. It would have been nice to have a warning about that. However, that mistake is mostly on me as I did not read the help file thoroughly.
My first thought was, what is the point of simultaneous evaluation if the lower segment is not evaluated simultaneously? I later calmed down when I realized it works well for simultaneous single segment GD&T callouts that are not fully constrained. Also, I read on the forum that if you break up the upper and lower segments and report them separately the math mostly works out right.
