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why would it be inappropriate to dimension to a feature on a surface that is not perpendicular to the line of sight?

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if you are drawing and dimensioning with a computer program the dimension will be inaccurate... If it is mechanical drawing then the fabricator would not have enough information to accurately measure the component. ie a circle turned a few degrees away from perp. would appear to be an ellipse. and may actually dimension that way
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