Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-1

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

Meter

Kilometer

Millimeter

Centimeter

2. 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 back slash and enter

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

Type @3<45 and enter

Type 3 forward slash and enter

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

Use the Join command

Use the Add Parts tool

None of these

Use Union to join them

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

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

It can't be done

Use the trim tool to take away the stacked center mark

Explode the dimension and then erase the center mark

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

Boss

Countersink

Spot-face

Counter-bore

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

Parallel

Isometric

Angular

Orthographic

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

Any number

Three

One

Two

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

Inside

Isoplane

Radial

Outside

9. 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 17, 11

0, 0 and 2, 9

0, 0 and 18, 24

10. There are two main types of projection

Perspective and Parallel

Station-point and Perspective

Parallel and Convergent

Parallel and Orthographic

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

Lug

Spot face

Boss

Chamfer

12. Spur gear design normally begins with selecting this:

Rack size

Tooth size

Pitch diameter

Gear size

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

Document strips

Formatting forms

Title and record strips

Portable documents

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

Electrical legend

Part number

List

Electrical layer

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

All of these

Look on a metric conversion chart

Check the engineer's scale

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

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

T-joint

Rear joint

Angle joint

Groove joint

17. 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.

Vertical

None of these

Horizontal

Inclined

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

Dynamic Input

Ortho

Grid

O Snaps

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

Iso-circles

Ellipses

Iso-ellipses

Circles

20. 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

It makes no difference

They seem to transmit better in a fax machine

Different line widths convey different information

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

Design for assembly

Design for manufacture

Design for manufacture and assembly

Design for concurrent engineering

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

Functional process

Aesthetic process

Engineering process

Design process

23. 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

Aesthetic projection

Perpendicular projection

Angular projection

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

5"

6"

8"

4"

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

Modify

3-D Modeling

Visual Styles

All of these

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

Set up the meter line

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

Sharpen the leads in the technical pens

Draw a series of guide lines

27. 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 working drawing to a draft

A finished to a working drawing

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

Convolute profile

Base circle

Spur circle

Involute profile

29. 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

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

Modification slip

Whole new set of drawings

None of the above

Change order

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31. 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.

F3

F1

F8

F5

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

Electronic files

Draft drawings

Rapid prototypes

Change orders

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

Circles

Vertical lines

None of these

Horizontal lines

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

Sweep

None of these

Revolve

Extrude

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

Metric

Architectural

Civil

Engineering

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

Turn Object Snap off

Set the grid to isometric

Turn Ortho off

Set the current layer to Def-points

37. 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

Center of a radius

Hidden feature

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

Position the isometric drawing in paper space

None of these

Figure what lines are to be illustrated vertical and horizontal

Confine the isometric drawing to its maximum size

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

The beginning point of the last line

0, 0

The ending point of the last line

None of these

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

None of these

20, 20, 20

0, 0, 0

10, 10, 10

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