Here is my problem. If I say I only want to report 3 digits and .005+/-.001 and the result is .0061 it will show me a fail. I want it to show me a pass. Same with .0039 want to show as a pass.
Anything in the software that I can turn on to correct the pass fail with that?
Any thoughts would helpful can think of some work arounds.
so you want to lie haha you could always assign the dim as a variable and give it an if statement to handle the number according to what you want it to do dimensionally
I don't want to lie. But this is company rounding/truncating SOP. It is considering that the next digit is not significant so round up and round down leaves only significant digits for pass/fail.
When you set your displayprecision to 3, the screen would show the tolerance of ±.001, but it could be set for ".00149" however be sure your nominal value is set properly, or you will still get the miscellaneous flags you are trying to avoid.
Personally, I feel it's bad practice but, if your establishment has rules to handle trailing values then you should be within the written rules by setting your tolerances up this way.
and, even doing that, if you are exporting the data to ANY kind of data collection (or even exporting from Pcdmis to Excel), all those trailing hidden numbers will still show up.
If the drawing specify Y14.5 then that document specifies that All tolerances are absolute no matter how many bazillion zeros you go out to. I.E. a 1 +/- .001 dimension is out of tolerance if the measurement is 1.00100000001. If you are making the parts for the right someone else then in theory they could nail your companies hide to the wall as well as you.
Besides that, why would you want a process that produces parts right out to the edge of the tolerance.
Minimum stock removal saves time in processing. So, I understand the lure to be at the edge of the tolerance zone, however as a QA it drives me wild with a ±.01/±.005 to attempt to be at the .01 or .005 limit. If your process is repeatable, target .001" inside the limit and you will do your shop more favors in efficiency!