Educational Webinar: Datum Basics

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The objective of this complimentary webinar on planar datums is to provide you with a thorough survey of the subject, using illustrative examples.

This webinar is a recording of a live webinar that took place on Wednesday, April 5, 2017 @ 2:00pm (est)

By watching this recorded webinar, you will learn:

  • The purpose of datums – establishing reference frames
  • The traditional datum example
  • Datum types
  • Set of support
  • Candidate primary datum definition
  • Candidate datum pass/fail test
  • Measuring datum planes
  • Candidate secondary and tertiary datum definition
  • Datum reference frame selection

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