Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-1

May 20, 2021

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

Electronic files

Change orders

Rapid prototypes

Draft drawings

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

Radial

Outside

Inside

Isoplane

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

Design for assembly

Design for manufacture

Design for concurrent engineering

Design for manufacture and assembly

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

Engineering

Metric

Civil

Architectural

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

Confine the isometric drawing to its maximum size

Position the isometric drawing in paper space

None of these

Figure what lines are to be illustrated vertical and horizontal

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

Horizontal lines

Circles

None of these

Vertical lines

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

None of these

0, 0, 0

20, 20, 20

10, 10, 10

8. Spur gear design normally begins with selecting this:

Rack size

Tooth size

Gear size

Pitch diameter

9. 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:

Perpendicular projection

Aesthetic projection

Angular projection

Oblique projection

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

Meter

Centimeter

Kilometer

Millimeter

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

Document strips

Portable documents

Title and record strips

Formatting forms

12. 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

Use Union to join them

None of these

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

Boss

Counter-bore

Spot-face

Countersink

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

Angular

Isometric

Orthographic

Parallel

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

Gantt charts

Development plans

Portable document files

The Internet and e-mail

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

Circles

Ellipses

Iso-circles

Iso-ellipses

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. There are two main types of projection

Perspective and Parallel

Parallel and Convergent

Station-point and Perspective

Parallel and Orthographic

19. 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

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

Base circle

Spur circle

Involute profile

Convolute profile

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

Draw a series of guide lines

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

Sharpen the leads in the technical pens

Set up the meter line

22. 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

23. 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

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

List

Electrical layer

Electrical legend

Part number

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

Any number

Two

One

Three

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

A finished to a working drawing

A draft to a finished drawing

An assembly to a finished drawing

A working drawing to a draft

27. 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

Explode the dimension and then erase the center mark

Use the trim tool to take away the stacked center mark

It can't be done

28. 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<45 and enter

Type 3 back slash and enter

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

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

The beginning point of the last line

The ending point of the last line

None of these

0, 0

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

0, 0 and 17, 11

0, 0 and 18, 24

0, 0 and 2, 9

0, 0 and 34, 24

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

Ortho

Dynamic Input

Grid

O Snaps

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

Rear joint

T-joint

Groove joint

Angle joint

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.

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

Extrude

Revolve

None of these

Sweep

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

Design process

Engineering process

Functional process

Aesthetic process

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

All of these

Look on a metric conversion chart

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

Check the engineer's scale

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

Chamfer

Lug

Boss

Spot face

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

3-D Modeling

Visual Styles

All of these

Modify

40. 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

Whole new set of drawings

Change order

Modification slip

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