“…For example, in terms of a plane feature with position tolerance requirements as shown in Fig. 2(a), its variation transform Di_P has three degrees of freedo m (DOFs) (Takahashi et al, 2014), including a translational DOF along the Zi-axis and two rotational DOFs along the Xi-axis and Yi-axis, respectively. After variat ion Di_P, the vertexes A, B, C, D of the plane vary to A', B', C', and D', and the nominal coordinate system Oi_P moves to the tracking coordinate system O'i_P.…”