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Rule 10. Provide Location Points

All castings will be provided with agreed location points for dimensional reference and for pickup for machining. The combination of clamping points to be used during machining is also usually helpful and easily incorporated, as illustrated in Fig. 10 below.

These drawings show ways in which the six-point location method can be used on a casting.

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Illustrations were excerpted from Campbell's book, Castings, published by Butterworth-Heinemann, Ltd. It is available from AFS Publications at 800/537-4237.

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