Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-1

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

All of these

Visual Styles

3-D Modeling

Modify

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

Development plans

The Internet and e-mail

Portable document files

Gantt charts

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

Electronic files

Change orders

Rapid prototypes

Draft drawings

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

Design process

Aesthetic process

Functional process

Engineering process

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

Isometric

Parallel

Orthographic

Angular

6. There are two main types of projection

Parallel and Orthographic

Parallel and Convergent

Perspective and Parallel

Station-point and Perspective

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

Grid

Ortho

Dynamic Input

O Snaps

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

Millimeter

Meter

Centimeter

Kilometer

9. 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

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

Iso-ellipses

Ellipses

Circles

Iso-circles

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

Rear joint

T-joint

Groove joint

Angle joint

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

Check the engineer's scale

All of these

Look on a metric conversion chart

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

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

Civil

Metric

Engineering

Architectural

14. 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.

None of these

Vertical

Inclined

Horizontal

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

Isoplane

Radial

Outside

Inside

16. 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 and try to use the Dynamic Input readout to find the end point

Type @3<45 and enter

Type 3 back slash and enter

Type 3 forward slash and enter

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

Electrical layer

Electrical legend

Part number

List

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

Horizontal lines

Circles

None of these

Vertical lines

19. Spur gear design normally begins with selecting this:

Pitch diameter

Rack size

Gear size

Tooth size

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

None of these

Sweep

Extrude

Revolve

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21. 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

22. 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

Use the trim tool to take away the stacked center mark

It can't be done

Explode the dimension and then erase the center mark

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

Boss

Spot-face

Countersink

Counter-bore

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

Design for manufacture

Design for assembly

Design for concurrent engineering

Design for manufacture and assembly

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

Figure what lines are to be illustrated vertical and horizontal

Confine the isometric drawing to its maximum size

None of these

Position the isometric drawing in paper space

26. 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

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

Three

Any number

One

Two

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

Chamfer

Boss

Lug

Spot face

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

Spur circle

Base circle

Convolute profile

Involute profile

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

Turn Object Snap off

Set the current layer to Def-points

Turn Ortho off

Set the grid to isometric

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31. 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

32. 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 working drawing to a draft

A draft to a finished drawing

A finished to a working drawing

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

Formatting forms

Portable documents

Document strips

Title and record strips

34. 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.

F5

F8

F1

F3

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

Draw a series of guide lines

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

36. 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"

4"

6"

8"

37. 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:

Angular projection

Aesthetic projection

Perpendicular projection

Oblique projection

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

They seem to transmit better in a fax machine

It makes no difference

Different line widths convey different information

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

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

None of these

The beginning point of the last line

0, 0

The ending point of the last line

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

Whole new set of drawings

None of the above

Modification slip

Change order

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