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Profile vs T-value vs Colormap

Hi,

Another day, another question Upside down

Today i had to check a profile callout (0.5 max - form only), but i find the results a bit strange, maybe i'm missing something but here is what i got :

- Profile is reporting OOT while point cloud colormap shows pretty good values (tolerance set to +/-0.25) while T-value shows something even different :

 

Where is the truth here ?

I would have think the values shown on point cloud are equal to the T-value no ?

For example here the point 88 is reporting 0.140 and T-value is 0.197, point 127 is reporting 0.152 and T-value is 0.068...

Also, if i look at all the values shown, the min is -0.034 and max is 0.155 so i would assume the profile result would be 0.189.

Any idea ?

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  • well, since the flat/plane is not a defined datum, nor part of the feature of size being controlled... it's adding noise to the interpretation of the part and the software's ability to bestfit the profile measurement/interpretation as communicated on the drawing. 

    If you had a width measurement: would you level and datum to a potentially non-perpendicular plane, before measuring that width? why not?  (It's rhetorical, you wouldn't because it can introduce error in your resultant values if the (incorrectly applied) datum plane skews your distance.)

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