GD&T Level 1 - Virtual Instructor Led Training

Build a solid, working foundation in GD&T with GD&T Level 1 – Virtual Instructor Led Training. This course provides a thorough treatment of the GD&T system - covering the concepts, rules, tools, and practical techniques your team needs to create requirements that remain clear from design through inspection and assembly. The training is presented from multiple perspectives, including design, manufacturing, quality, inspection, and concurrent engineering, so learners understand not only what a callout means, but how downstream teams will interpret and verify it.

You’ll start by exploring why traditional plus/minus dimensioning often falls short for functional requirements and how GD&T addresses those shortcomings. From there, the course introduces functional dimensioning and tolerancing. Then, you’ll dive into datums and the datum reference frame, crucial building blocks for communicating part requirements consistently.

The curriculum is designed to build logically: beginning with GD&T rules and simpler concepts, then expanding into system-level application. Along the way, you’ll cover features and features of size, geometric tolerances, and the tolerance zones that control form, orientation, and location. The result is a stronger grasp of GD&T basics that helps reduce interpretation risk, improve cross-functional alignment, and support clearer engineering communication.