GD&T User Options

There are several important global evaluation settings to select from found in the GD&T Options within the Users Options Dialog on the Analysis Tab:

 

Full Cylinder Evaluation Defaults

These options control the default fit settings passed to the annotations and define the way in which cylinder/Pin measurements are evaluated. The default settings are applied to annotations when they are built or imported but can be edited within the annotation properties directly. These options are described here.

 

Distance Between Checks Use

You can choose between using the Centroid or the Min/Max when reporting the distance between checks.

 

Evaluation Method

By default the Eval Method is set to “none”. This means that no additional version specific verifications are per- formed beyond the standard GD&T verification common to both ASME and ISO inspections. By selecting a particular standard, additional verifications are added to ensure compliance with the particular selected version of GD&T:

Choosing a specific standard will ensure that the numeric results presented are true to the selected version of the standard, and any deviation from that standard will result in an error. For example, by selecting ASME 1994 an additional check is applied for invalid datum identifiers (letters not permitted in ASME 1994). For more specifics on the additional validation checks applied for a particular standard version, please contact support@kinematics.com. (support@kinematics.com)

 

Simultaneous Evaluations

ASME asserts that position and surface profile features checks referencing a common datum reference frame must be evaluated together unless mark otherwise. ISO does not have the same requirement therefore an option is available to require this operation. More details can be found here.