More Dowel Pins (Summer 2024)

The GD&T Guy responds to a viewer comment from the 2023 videos on Dowel Pins as Locating Features, and in the process addresses some of the things he got wrong. Warning: this could be a heavy lift for someone new to GD&T, but it's relevant, and you're not likely to find content like this anywhere else! It is a close look at maximum material boundary (MMB) and translation datum modifier.

00:15 Listener comment about translation modifier
05:44 A look at the larger part
13:58 "Insufficiently Defined"
15:45 Locating the pins as a pattern
19:35 Wait - it's not MMC + perpendicularity?
21:39 General Note approach
22:47 Specified MMB value
25:51 Comment revisited