I am having trouble understanding composite tolerance, especially when it comes to a bolt hole pattern like this. I am wondering how you would dimension these true positions. Here's my idea using legacy dimensioning:
Level and translate to A, rotate to B, and report the position of 1 hole (any hole?...lets say the 12'O'Clock hole) and give it a .001 tolerance. Then, would I stay leveled to A&B, translate to the hole that I just reported on (12'O'Clock hole), and report the positions of the rest of the holes with a .0005 tolerance?
From my understanding the lower segments of composite only constrain rotational degrees of freedom. To check the lower segment create a feature set out of the holes, create a best fit alignment using the feature set allowing translation in the X and Y (assuming Z is looking at the holes) and set the best fit method to min/max. After the alignment redo the position of the holes. Technically you can also allow translation in the Z but you can't do a min/max best fit in 3D for some reason and least squares evaluation may not give you the best result possible
From my understanding the lower segments of composite only constrain rotational degrees of freedom. To check the lower segment create a feature set out of the holes, create a best fit alignment using the feature set allowing translation in the X and Y (assuming Z is looking at the holes) and set the best fit method to min/max. After the alignment redo the position of the holes. Technically you can also allow translation in the Z but you can't do a min/max best fit in 3D for some reason and least squares evaluation may not give you the best result possible