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Projected Distance Perpendicularity vs Non Projected

Hi. Hope all is well with everyone. Thanks for reading and perhaps offering some insight.
This is prolly a dumb question....but, how accurate is projected perpendicularity to just regular old non projected perpendicularity?

I ask because, and I may be wrong, perhaps someone could correct me if so. But when I check a cylindrical feature referenced back to a datum with no projection using tolerance of 0 that's based on mmc modifier of the feature, I can get a reasonable number of .002" and a few tenths.

However, when I project over 12 inches i get numbers along the lines of .179". The length of the cylinder is not very long maybe an inch or so.

Also, if the print isn't calling for this this to be projected, then don't project over that distance back to the datum, correct? If that's what the engineers on the other side are after then they would need to update the print, correct?

Thanks for your time.​
  • Non-projected tolerance deals with the entire length of the feature.
    Projected tolerance starts at the end of the feature and the specified projection length out from the end of the feature, making the evaluation length the projection length.
    Yes, if the tolerance should be projected, it shall state that on the drawing, usually with a circled P (P) after the tolerance, together with a projection length.