This book is for students in undergraduate mechanical engineering, or similar, programs. The material presented is based on nearly thirty years of class-tested lecture notes for courses on mechanical tolerancing. The book’s emphasis is on fit and alignment requirements for machine components, as these topics make up the majority of challenging applications in tolerancing. By comparison, design for specific functions is quite straightforward. For design engineers, knowing how to apply geometric tolerances has been a challenge even for engineers who have practiced geometric tolerancing for a long time. The syntax and meaning of geometric tolerancing statements can be learned easily and quickly, but knowing how to use them correctly is much more difficult. In this context, this book imparts the subject not using a geometric tolerancing approach but using a design-for-fit approach. Written to present design-for-fit in at a level allied to university courses in mechanical engineering, incorporating many simple examples free of distractions, the book is ideal for elucidating the geometric dimensioning and tolerancing for engineering students and practitioners new to the field. weiterlesen