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Runout & Concentricity 2

Circular runout controls both circularity (roundness) and concentricity and is generally a better geometric control than concentricity or coaxiality. Circular runout measures the variation in a feature's diameter over its circumference, while total runout measures the highest and lowest readings over the entire feature. An inspector can measure runouts by rotating the part and inspecting slices along the axis. For example, a part may have a maximum circular runout of 0.03 across two slices while having a total runout of 0.11, and would pass both runout checks.

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Runout & Concentricity 2

Circular runout controls both circularity (roundness) and concentricity and is generally a better geometric control than concentricity or coaxiality. Circular runout measures the variation in a feature's diameter over its circumference, while total runout measures the highest and lowest readings over the entire feature. An inspector can measure runouts by rotating the part and inspecting slices along the axis. For example, a part may have a maximum circular runout of 0.03 across two slices while having a total runout of 0.11, and would pass both runout checks.

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Circularity, cylindricity, concentricity & coaxilaity - and why its almost always better to use runout!

Concentricity requires deriving the median line of a feature. All of the features shown below are concentric.




Usually, designs require that a feature be round as well as concentric like the first on the left above. So a better
geometric control is usually circular runout. Circular runout controls circularity (roundness) as well as concentricity.





Ref. BS EN ISO 1101, shows that there is a difference between the tolerance of location concentricity (for 2D) and
- coaxiality (for 3D), and it is something that cannot be easily distinguished since they seemed to, ahem, runout of
ideas when it came to a symbol!





Note the difference between circular runout (one arrow) and total runout (two arrows). To inspect the two runouts
illustrated below, an inspector could rotate the part on its axis; several slices along the part could then be inspected.









The worst circular runout error occurs at the slice with the greatest variation - in this case two slices vary a total of 0.03.
Total runout is the difference between the highest and lowest readings found over the entire feature. The highest
reading was +0.02 and the lowest reading was -0.09. Therefore, the total runout for the feature is 0.11 (the difference
between +0.02 and -0.09). The part would pass both runout checks.
Circularrunout.
FORM 2D
Circularity
(roundness)
FORM 3D
Cylindricity
LOCATION 2D
Concentricity
LOCATION 3D
Coaxiality

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