Pass fail to tolerances

Then there are those of us with 0 position tolerance try to get the shop to remove as much as possible to make the parts easier to pass.

That's a terrible practice and effort should be made to curb it. If you have a -.001 tolerance and want a deviation of -.00149 to show as passed, you basically just gave it an extra 49% tolerance. My compromise after repeated discussions was to report 1 decimal place more than the print. Even with that, every time we get a new manufacturing supervisor or manager (even a QE one time!!), this issue is brought up again.

CMM = Characterization Magic Manipulation ?????
Even if I think it's a very bad idea to accept OOT parts without a real customer acceptance, you can easily change the tol to 0.00549/-0.00149 with 3 decimal places, it should be invisible on the report numbers, but a part with a 0.005 deviation won't appear with a total graphic deviation...
It's a kind of magic, it's not metrology !!!!!

If he's got an SOP that states thout shall round for all drawings, and this SOP is accepted by their customer(s), then thout shall round per that SOP!
--The only exception is when it comes to conducting a gage study (MSA). You should never apply rounding to a gage study.

FYI, you can actually further obscure (or control) the dim tolerances by making the tolerances on each dim point to an assignment variable.

Here's a truncated segment of a routine I made that parametrically shifted tolerances so any time we run the routine with a "qualification" toggle, it refers to the GAGERR dim values

IF/GAGERR == 0
$$ YES,
DRAWING SPEC GRAY OUTER BODY
ASSIGN/TOL_AA_P=0.005
ASSIGN/TOL_AA_M=0.02

END_IF/
ELSE/
$$ YES,
GREEN SPEC GRAY OUTER BODY
ASSIGN/TOL_AA_P=0.01
ASSIGN/TOL_AA_M=0.02
END_ELSE/
END_ELSE/​

DIM AA_GATE_1= 2D DISTANCE FROM PLANE APLANE_1 TO POINT AD_GATE_1 PAR TO YAXIS,NO_RADIUS UNITS=IN,$
GRAPH=OFF TEXT=OFF MULT=10.00 OUTPUT=BOTH
AX NOMINAL +TOL -TOL MEAS DEV OUTTOL
M 5.378+0 TOL_AA_P TOL_AA_M 5.37762 -0.00038 0.00000 --#-​

ooh there's an extra else as there were two part variants (resin type/color). I have unique dims for color 'A' and a second set of unique tolerances for the gray in the above code.

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.
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Sorry Peter .0061 is out of tolerance.

What you want to achieve is in direct violation of ASME Y14.5 Section 2.4 (this is from ASME Y14.5-2009)

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What you want to achieve is in direct violation of ASME Y14.5 Section 2.4 (this is from ASME Y14.5-2009)

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“Only a Sith deals in absolutes.”

Some agencies actually specify what he is looking for.

What you want to achieve is in direct violation of ASME Y14.5 Section 2.4 (this is from ASME Y14.5-2009)

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see what Mike Ruff posted...