I'm trying to understand this width vs midplane non-sense.
From what I understand midplane is simple, you collapse two parallel planes until they hit the highs of the opposing planar surfaces and bingo you have a center plane from this perfect datum simulator.
I would think width feature is the same methodology except you get an additional width measurement from it....so then I think....why have two separate tools for this. Just let midplane kick out the width....so I tend to believe there is some 'centroid' craziness going on with the width feature...if I'm correct does it then matter how dispersed your hit points are? If you collect them too much on one side have you pushed the centroid to one side?
I was abused by pcdmis as a metrology child b/c I just never really understood this love affair with the centroid. So if someone could slap me around a little that would be appreciated.
Secondly, then how do you properly do a positional MMC callout of a centerplane(from a feature of size). You need the width to get the bonus and b/c you need a feature of size, but you need to create a centerplane at the same time? So I'm confused here as well. I also see the width reported back an X,Y,Z location.....is this simply reporting a single point in space b/w the centroids?
Thank you.
