Printed Board Dimensions and Tolerances - IPC

1 IPC-2615 Printed Board Dimensionsand TolerancesASSOCIATION CONNECTINGELECTRONICS INDUSTRIES2215 Sanders Road, Northbrook, IL 60062-6135 Tel. Fax 2000A standard developed by IPCT able of .. to This Standard .. to Gauging .. Specifications .. Standards .. 12 TERMS AND Size .. Dimension .. tolerance .. Tolerances .. Feature .. Axis .. Target .. of Size .. Product (End Item) .. Allowance .. of Size .. tolerance .. of Size .. Material Condition (LMC) .. Material Condition (MMC) .. tolerance .. Dimension .. of Feature Size (RFS).

2 Datum .. , Statistical .. Dimension .. Position .. Drawing .. tolerance .. Condition .. 33 GEOMETRIC CHARACTERS AND .. of Notes to Supplement Symbols .. Construction .. Characteristic Symbols .. Feature Symbol .. Dimension Condition Symbols .. and Radius Symbols .. Symbol .. tolerance Symbols .. Control Frame .. Control Frame Incorporating DatumReferences .. Feature Control Frame and DatumFeature Symbol .. Control Frame Placement .. 64 GENERAL Material Condition Principle(MMC) Effect of MMC.. of Feature Size.

3 Material Condition Principle .. of Size .. Feature of Size (Rule #1) .. Between Individual Features .. of MMC, RFS, and LMC .. 95 DATUM .. Reference Frame .. Features .. Feature Symbols .. Feature Control .. Datums in Order of Precedence .. Datums .. Datum Feature .. and Tertiary Datum Features NotSubject to Size Variations .. and Tertiary Datum FeaturesSubject to Size Variations .. Datum Features RFS .. Datum Features at MMC .. Datum Features .. Orientation .. 16 July of Features to Establish a SecondaryDatum .. Datum Reference Frames.

4 Targets .. Target Symbols .. Target Dimensions .. Planes .. 196 Tolerances OF .. Tolerancing .. Locations Given by Basic Control Frame .. Datums for Dimensions LocatingTrue Positions .. to Base Line and ChainDimensioning .. Explanation of PositionalTolerancing .. Condition Basis .. as Related to Positional Tolerancing .. as Related to Positional Tolerancing .. Patterns of Features Located byBasic Dimensions Relative to CommonDatums .. Pattern Location .. Positional Tolerancing .. Positional Tolerancing of of Non-Circular Features.

5 Features at MMC .. Drawings (Artwork) .. 277 Tolerances OF FORM, ORIENTATION, .. and Orientation Control .. Form and Orientation Tolerances .. and Orientation tolerance Zones .. Control .. Tolerancing .. Radius tolerance .. Surfaces .. 39 Appendix A: FUNDAMENTAL DIMENSIONING ANDTOLERANCING 45 Appendix B: GENERAL TOLERANCING ANDRELATED 56 Appendix C: DIMENSIONING FOR COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN 58 FiguresFigure 3-1 Datum Feature Symbol .. 4 Figure 3-2 Examples of Datum Identification .. 5 Figure 3-3 Basic Dimension Symbol .. 5 Figure 3-4 Feature Control Frame.

6 6 Figure 3-5 Feature Control Frame Incorporating DatumReport .. 6 Figure 3-6 Order of Precedence of Datum Reference .. 6 Figure 3-7 Multiple Feature Control Frames .. 7 Figure 3-8 Symbol for All Around .. 7 Figure 3-9 Combined Feature Control Frame and DatumFeature Symbol .. 7 Figure 3-10 Feature Control Frame Placement .. 7 Figure 4-1 Positional Tolerancing at MMC .. 8 Figure 4-2 Variations of Form Allowed By SizeTolerance .. 9 Figure 5-1 Datum Reference Frame .. 10 Figure 5-2 Datum Reference Frame to Printed BoardRelationships .. 11 Figure 5-3 Datum Reference Using Printed BoardEdges.

7 12 Figure 5-4 Hole and Slot Establishing Secondary andTertiary Datums .. 12 Figure 5-5 Additional Datum Example .. 13 Figure 5-6 Datum Feature Identification and Reference . 14 Figure 5-7 Secondary Datum Established By InternalFeature .. 14 Figure 5-8 Datum Feature and Simulated Datum .. 15 Figure 5-9 Virtual Condition of Datum Feature .. 15 Figure 5-10 Part With Cylindrical Datum Features(a) primary datum feature K, whichestablishes a datum plane; and(b) secondary datum feature M, whichestablishes a datum axis.. 16 Figure 5-11 Cylindrical Internal Datum Features .. 17 Figure 5-12 Development of a Datum Reference Frame.

8 17 Figure 5-13 Pattern of Feature to Establish SecondaryDatum .. 18 Figure 5-14 Multiple Datum Reference Conditions(Rigid/Flex) Examples .. 18 Figure 5-15 Referencing Datums in Feature ControlFrames .. 19 Figure 5-16 Datum Target Symbol .. 19 Figure 5-17 Datum Target Point .. 20 Figure 5-18 Dimensioning Datum Targets .. 20 Figure 5-19 Primary Datum Plane Established .. 21 Figure 6-1 Identifying Basic Dimensions .. 22 Figure 6-2 Positional Tolerances With DatumReference .. 23 Figure 6-3 Positional Tolerancing .. 23 Figure 6-4 Establishing Datums for True PositionLocation.

9 24 Figure 6-5 Basic Dimensioning Using Chain orBaseline Format .. 25 IPC-2615 July 2000ivFigure 6-6 Boundary for Surface of Hole at MMC .. 26 Figure 6-7 Hole Axes in Relation to PositionalTolerance Zones .. 27 Figure 6-8 Increase in Positional tolerance WhereHole is Not at MMC .. 28 Figure 6-9 Conventional Positional Tolerancingat MMC .. 29 Figure 6-10 Regardless of Feature Size Applied toA Feature and A Datum .. 29 Figure 6-11 Increase in Positional tolerance WhereHole is not at LMC .. 30 Figure 6-12 LMC Applied to A Pattern of Mounting Pins .. 31 Figure 6-13 Multiple Patterns of Features.

10 32 Figure 6-14 tolerance Zones for Patterns Shown inFigure 6-13 .. 33 Figure 6-15 Multiple Patterns of Features, SeparateRequirement .. 34 Figure 6-16 Hole Patterns Located By CompositePositional Tolerancing .. 35 Figure 6-17 tolerance Zone for Three-Hole HolePatterns Shown in Figure 6-16.. 36 Figure 6-18Bi-Directional Positional Tolerancing,Rectangular Coordinate Method .. 37 Figure 6-19 Keying Slot Detail .. 37 Figure 6-20 V Groove .. 37 Figure 6-21 Keying Slot Detail .. 38 Figure 7-1 Application of A Profile of A Surface to AContour .. 40 Figure 7-2 Specifying Profile of A Surface All Around.