Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-1

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1. Inserting blocks into a drawing file usually requires exacting placement. The drafter should insure that ________ is turned on.

Ortho

Dynamic Input

Grid

O Snaps

2. This process recognizes the inherent interrelationships between design and manufacturing:

Design for assembly

Design for manufacture and assembly

Design for concurrent engineering

Design for manufacture

3. When creating an isometric drawing in Auto-CAD the drafter can utilize the Dynamic Input and Polar Coordinate system to place both vertical and horizontal lines. A line created from one point 3 inches at 180 degrees would be a ________ line.

Horizontal

None of these

Vertical

Inclined

4. This is a conical-shaped recess around a hole, often used to receive a tapered screw head

Boss

Spot-face

Countersink

Counter-bore

5. The primary unit of measurement for engineering drawings and design in the mechanical industries is the:

Millimeter

Meter

Kilometer

Centimeter

6. Oblique drawings are dimensioned in a similar fashion as these types of drawings:

Isometric

Angular

Orthographic

Parallel

7. Auto-CAD refers to isometric ellipses as ________.

Circles

Iso-ellipses

Ellipses

Iso-circles

8. A cylinder can be created by drawing a rectangular shape then the ________ tool.

Sweep

Revolve

None of these

Extrude

9. When lettering a CAD drawing, for clarity you should limit the number of fonts to:

Two

Any number

One

Three

10. A fillet is a rounded surface on the ________ corner of a part.

Isoplane

Outside

Radial

Inside

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11. In working drawings, these show all necessary information not given directly on the drawing with its dimensions and notes:

Formatting forms

Document strips

Title and record strips

Portable documents

12. Which of the following is one of the basic types of welded joints:

Angle joint

T-joint

Rear joint

Groove joint

13. Drawings created with commercial software are typically saved as:

Rapid prototypes

Electronic files

Change orders

Draft drawings

14. The organized and orderly approach to solving problems is known as the

Engineering process

Design process

Functional process

Aesthetic process

15. Using the Relative Polar Coordinate System to add a 3 inch line that is 45 degrees from the end point of the line created above the drafter would ________.

Type 3 forward slash and enter

Type 3 and try to use the Dynamic Input readout to find the end point

Type 3 back slash and enter

Type @3<45 and enter

16. In order to create one solid model from two or more separate solid shapes the drafter will need to position them and then ________.

Use Union to join them

Use the Join command

Use the Add Parts tool

None of these

17. Once a drawing is determined to be complete, the title block is used to document the change from:

An assembly to a finished drawing

A draft to a finished drawing

A finished to a working drawing

A working drawing to a draft

18. The text height for room names should be set to ________for a drawing that will be plotted to a scale of ¼" = 1'-0".

8"

4"

5"

6"

19. The default position of the UCS icon is positioned at ________ on the Auto-CAD grid.

10, 10, 10

20, 20, 20

None of these

0, 0, 0

20. A line drawn with a long section, short dash, and another long section is a __________.

Center axis of a hidden cylinder

Center of a circle

Hidden feature

Center of a radius

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21. When drawing a line using the relative coordinate system a line is created from ________.

0, 0

None of these

The beginning point of the last line

The ending point of the last line

22. The most common geometric form used in gears today is this

Involute profile

Spur circle

Base circle

Convolute profile

23. In order to convert fractional inches into decimal inches __________.

Check the engineer's scale

All of these

Divide the numerator (top number) by the denominator (bottom number)

Look on a metric conversion chart

24. In order to create an isometric circle to represent a hole through the top surface of a box, the drafter must insure that the correct iso-plane has been selected by scrolling through the iso-planes using the ________ key.

F1

F3

F8

F5

25. In order to set drawing limits for a 'C' size architectural drawing the drafter should set the limits to ________.

0, 0 and 34, 24

0, 0 and 2, 9

0, 0 and 18, 24

0, 0 and 17, 11

26. The first step in creating a traditional technical drawing is to ________.

Set up the meter line

Sharpen the leads in the technical pens

Align the paper so that it will be positioned square to the parallel bar

Draw a series of guide lines

27. Spur gear design normally begins with selecting this:

Rack size

Pitch diameter

Gear size

Tooth size

28. There are two main types of projection

Parallel and Convergent

Station-point and Perspective

Perspective and Parallel

Parallel and Orthographic

29. The bounding box method for setting up an isometric drawing helps the drafter ________.

Position the isometric drawing in paper space

Figure what lines are to be illustrated vertical and horizontal

None of these

Confine the isometric drawing to its maximum size

30. The Offset tool should only be used for placing _________ in an isometric drawing.

Horizontal lines

Vertical lines

None of these

Circles

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31. Once the architect has finalized the house plans with the client any changes to the design requested by the client will require a ________.

None of the above

Change order

Whole new set of drawings

Modification slip

32. How can the drafter prevent Auto-CAD from placing or stacking another center mark on a circle when adding a diameter dimension to it?

Explode the dimension and then erase the center mark

It can't be done

Use the trim tool to take away the stacked center mark

Use the Properties dialog box to turn off the center mark of the dimension

33. Generally, the units used on an architectural drawing are set to __________.

Architectural

Metric

Civil

Engineering

34. Traditional drafters need to be able to create several different line widths because ________.

The line width has to do with how dark it appear in the finished drawing

Different line widths convey different information

It makes no difference

They seem to transmit better in a fax machine

35. This is a flat or rounded tab protruding from a surface, usually to provide a method for attachment:

Spot face

Boss

Chamfer

Lug

36. This type of projection is when projectors are parallel to each other, but are at an angle other than 90 degrees to the plane of projection:

Oblique projection

Perpendicular projection

Aesthetic projection

Angular projection

37. Using this as a communication and design review tool can help shorten the process and eliminate productivity barriers:

Gantt charts

Portable document files

Development plans

The Internet and e-mail

38. Before starting an isometric drawing in Auto-CAD the drafter needs to ________.

Turn Ortho off

Set the grid to isometric

Turn Object Snap off

Set the current layer to Def-points

39. To insure that everyone understands what the electrical symbols represent it is customary to include a ________ on the electrical sheet.

Part number

Electrical legend

Electrical layer

List

40. The Conceptual Visual Style tool is located on the ________ toolbar.

Visual Styles

3-D Modeling

Modify

All of these

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