And the designer (dreamers) who are fresh from school, design to 0.00001”! They also cannot understand why their designs are not producible and never achieve their design tolerances!We had a saying when I worked at the plant. Machinist worked to thousands of an inch and tool and die makers worked to tenth’s of a thousand.
I know I've mentioned this before, but it might bare repeating. When I started working in the machine building business one of the first things I had to do was to take a short course on the company standards for configurations of drawings. This included all the company standards for title block information, tolerancing, and labeling.And the designer (dreamers) who are fresh from school, design to 0.00001”! They also cannot understand why their designs are not producible and never achieve their design tolerances!