Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-1

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

Functional process

Design process

Engineering process

Aesthetic process

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

One

Any number

Two

Three

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

Lug

Spot face

Boss

Chamfer

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

Civil

Metric

Architectural

Engineering

5. 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 trim tool to take away the stacked center mark

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

Explode the dimension and then erase the center mark

It can't be done

6. 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

F5

F8

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

Spur circle

Base circle

Convolute profile

Involute profile

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

List

Part number

Electrical legend

Electrical layer

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

Angular

Orthographic

Parallel

Isometric

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

Circles

Iso-circles

Ellipses

Iso-ellipses

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

All of these

Check the engineer's scale

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

Look on a metric conversion chart

12. Spur gear design normally begins with selecting this:

Gear size

Tooth size

Rack size

Pitch diameter

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

A working drawing to a draft

A draft to a finished drawing

An assembly to a finished drawing

A finished to a working drawing

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

Set up the meter line

Sharpen the leads in the technical pens

Draw a series of guide lines

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

15. 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 Add Parts tool

None of these

Use Union to join them

Use the Join command

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 back slash and enter

Type 3 forward slash and enter

Type @3<45 and enter

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

0, 0 and 2, 9

0, 0 and 17, 11

0, 0 and 34, 24

0, 0 and 18, 24

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

Confine the isometric drawing to its maximum size

None of these

Position the isometric drawing in paper space

Figure what lines are to be illustrated vertical and horizontal

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

20, 20, 20

None of these

0, 0, 0

10, 10, 10

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

Design for concurrent engineering

Design for manufacture and assembly

Design for manufacture

Design for assembly

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

Grid

Dynamic Input

Ortho

O Snaps

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

Isoplane

Radial

Inside

Outside

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

The Internet and e-mail

Gantt charts

Portable document files

Development plans

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

Center of a circle

Center of a radius

Center axis of a hidden cylinder

Hidden feature

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

Countersink

Boss

Counter-bore

Spot-face

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

None of these

Vertical lines

Horizontal lines

Circles

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

Revolve

Extrude

None of these

Sweep

28. 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

Inclined

None of these

Horizontal

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

Change order

Modification slip

Whole new set of drawings

None of the above

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

Set the grid to isometric

Set the current layer to Def-points

Turn Object Snap off

Turn Ortho off

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31. 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

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

Kilometer

Millimeter

Meter

Centimeter

33. 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

0, 0

None of these

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

All of these

3-D Modeling

Modify

Visual Styles

36. There are two main types of projection

Parallel and Convergent

Perspective and Parallel

Station-point and Perspective

Parallel and Orthographic

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:

Aesthetic projection

Oblique projection

Angular projection

Perpendicular projection

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

Rear joint

Groove joint

Angle joint

T-joint

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

Draft drawings

Change orders

Rapid prototypes

Electronic files

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

6"

8"

4"

5"

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