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Definitive Guide To GD&T Symbols Quick Ref - CNCCookbook

This document provides a list of common GD&T symbols, their definitions, and notes. It includes symbols that control form, orientation, location, runout, and feature control frame modifiers. There are over 20 symbols listed, such as flatness, straightness, circularity, perpendicularity, parallelism, position, profile, concentricity, and symmetry. Additional notes explain when and how each symbol is used to specify tolerances and control dimensions.

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Definitive Guide To GD&T Symbols Quick Ref - CNCCookbook

This document provides a list of common GD&T symbols, their definitions, and notes. It includes symbols that control form, orientation, location, runout, and feature control frame modifiers. There are over 20 symbols listed, such as flatness, straightness, circularity, perpendicularity, parallelism, position, profile, concentricity, and symmetry. Additional notes explain when and how each symbol is used to specify tolerances and control dimensions.

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GD&T Symbols Definition


List
Control GD&T
Type Characteristic Notes
Symbol

Controls form
Flatness (shape) of size
and non-size
features.
Datum
Straightness reference is not

Form allowed

Controls form
Circularity
(shape) of size
(Roundness)
features only.
Datum
reference is not
Cylindricity
allowed

Orientation Perpendicularity Controls

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No relation Parallelism of surfaces,


between axes, or median
features planes for size
and non-size
features.
Datum
reference
required.
Angularity
Optional:
Angularity
symbol may be
used for all
orientation
controls.

Locates center
points, axes
and median
Position planes for size
features. Can
also control
orientation.

Location Locates
surfaces.
Profile of a
Can also be
Surface
used to control
size, form, and
orientation
basaed on
Profile of a Line
datum
reference.

Runout Controls
surface
Total Runout
coaxiality
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Circular Runout Can also


control form
and orientation
of surfaces

Locates derived
median points
Concentricity
Location of a feature
of derived Not common,
median consider
points. position, runout,
Symmetry
or profile
instead

Feature Control Frame Modi ers


Symbol Modifier Notes

Only applies if part is


Free State
otherwise restrained.

Least Material Condition Useful to maintain


(LMC) minimum wall thickness

Provides bonus
Maximum Material
tolerance only for
Condition (MMC)
a feature of size

Useful on threaded
Projected Tolerance Zone
holes for long studs

Regardless of Feature Not part of the 1994


Size (RFS) standard

Useful for interfaces


Tangent Plane where form is not
required

Unilateral Appears in the 2009


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unequal profile
distribution

These GD&T symbols are provided as a reference for CNCCookbook’s free GD&T
Tutorial. To learn what they mean, clicks the links, read on or check the Table of
Contents for more information.

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Symbols

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