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FIGURE 9.10 Ex<strong>amp</strong>le of an assembly generating an interrelated tolerance chain.<br />

9.5 3-D Variational Geometry<br />

An object model can be represented as a set of geometric entities topologically connected. Each entity<br />

has degrees of freedom on its defined space while maintaining the topological relationships. Dimensions<br />

are the constraints that restrain the degrees of freedom of geometric entity into a fixed place. Variational<br />

geometry is a mathematical model that calculates new positions of entities when the values of dimensions<br />

are changed.<br />

Before solving the variational geometry model, constraints have to be set and not over-defined, i.e., no one<br />

entity will be constrained with different criteria, such as two entities dimensioned twice with different values.<br />

In the next section, a method will be introduced to show how to detect under- or over-constrained system.<br />

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