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Every Thursday, our Industry Readlines email features interesting, helpful, or funny things from around the technical world. Whether you are in design, machining, production, or inspection this will be a great weekly read.

We have a special edition of Readlines this week - our "Best of 2024." Below, you will find our top 10 most clicked Readlines items from the past year! 

#10  For a Good Laugh: McMaster-Carr + SolidWorks

A match made in heaven.

#9  For a Good Laugh: The Engineer's Drawing

"Some of my best work."

#8  For a Good Laugh: GD&T Inspection

It's simple, really... 💡

#7  From the GD&T Basics Team: What Are Basic Dimensions and How Do They Work in GD&T?

There are three different types of dimensions on prints: Reference Dimensions, Tolerance Dimensions, and Basic Dimensions. In this article, we briefly review each type and dive deeper into Basic Dimensions and how they work in GD&T.

https://www.gdandtbasics.com/what-are-basic-dimensions-and-how-do-they-work-in-gdt/

#6  For a Good Laugh: What do you want?!

It's not that simple!

#5  For a Good Laugh: Inspection Report

errr....Inspection Report?!

#4  For a Good Laugh:  We need to check those parts

✨These are not the parts you are looking for...✨

#3  From the GD&T Basics Team: Position vs. Coordinate Dimensions

Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing, and the concept of “True Position,” originated due to a rejection of functional parts as a result of coordinate dimensioning. In this article, we look at a simple assembly to illustrate why this is true, and how GD&T Position takes care of this problem.

www.gdandtbasics.com/position-vs-coordinate-dimensions

#2   For a Good Laugh: Auto Feature Recognition

It seemed like a good idea at the time...

#1  From the GD&T Basics Team: What Not to Do: Avoiding Common Errors in GD&T Drawings

In this 4-part series, Jason walks through the most common errors we see on GD&T drawings and teaches us how to fix them. 

www.gdandtbasics.com/avoiding-common-errors-in-gdt-drawings

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