tolerance-band
The output is a band, not an angle
The rocker's angle through one turn of the crank, for a four-bar whose four lengths are each specified to ±0.01. The line is the nominal mechanism; the band is where the output of an actual one lies, found by building all sixteen extreme combinations of the four lengths at every crank angle and solving each. The band is not a constant width: it is 0.73° at its widest, near 30°, and 0.36° at its narrowest — a factor of 2.0. Which of those a designer is told depends entirely on where the mechanism was measured.
As built rather than as specifiedwide
Where it is used
- A length is a range As built
- Two routes to a sensitivity As built
- The four lengths do not matter equally As built
- The seventh contact Machines you have met
- Worst case and the square root As built
- Where a stack-up stops working As built
- A clearance is a link As built
- A constraint that has been said already Many of one thing
- Fragility has a direction As built
- Why a hinge works As built
- Seven lengths and a hundred corners As built
- A band with a direction in it As built
- What a drop cannot be smaller than As built
- Where an error at the shoulder ends up One path to the tool
- Which pin to buy As built
- Where the boundary moved again As built
- Taking up the play As built
- Tolerancing the holes As built
- The error that is repeated As built
- A piano hinge is not forty door hinges As built
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