Check out this question brought up about Flatness in our GD&T Fundamentals Course.
We get a lot of questions about when flatness can be applied and how datums can be used with this. There are some simple rules in the geometric dimensioning & tolerancing standards about applying flatness to datum features that you can follow, and some good rules of thumb about how you can qualify datums.
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