Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-1

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

Design for manufacture

Design for manufacture and assembly

Design for assembly

Design for concurrent engineering

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

Parallel

Angular

Orthographic

Isometric

3. 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"

4"

8"

5"

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

Rapid prototypes

Electronic files

Change orders

Draft drawings

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

Outside

Radial

Inside

Isoplane

6. 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

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

10, 10, 10

None of these

0, 0, 0

20, 20, 20

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

Centimeter

Meter

Kilometer

Millimeter

9. 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

Horizontal

None of these

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

Position the isometric drawing in paper space

None of these

Confine the isometric drawing to its maximum size

Figure what lines are to be illustrated vertical and horizontal

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

Visual Styles

All of these

Modify

3-D Modeling

12. 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

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

Spot-face

Counter-bore

Countersink

Boss

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

Grid

O Snaps

Ortho

Dynamic Input

15. 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

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 forward slash and enter

Type @3<45 and enter

Type 3 back slash and enter

17. 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

Use Union to join them

Use the Join command

None of these

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

A draft to a finished drawing

An assembly to a finished drawing

A working drawing to a draft

A finished to a working drawing

19. 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

Explode the dimension and then erase the center mark

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

It can't be done

20. Spur gear design normally begins with selecting this:

Gear size

Rack size

Pitch diameter

Tooth size

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

Horizontal lines

Vertical lines

None of these

Circles

22. 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

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

Different line widths convey different information

23. There are two main types of projection

Station-point and Perspective

Parallel and Orthographic

Parallel and Convergent

Perspective and Parallel

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

Sweep

None of these

Revolve

Extrude

25. 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

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

Design process

Engineering process

Functional process

Aesthetic process

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

Hidden feature

Center of a radius

Center of a circle

Center axis of a hidden cylinder

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

Involute profile

Base circle

Convolute profile

Spur circle

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

Any number

One

Three

Two

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

None of these

The ending point of the last line

The beginning point of the last line

0, 0

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

Architectural

Engineering

Metric

Civil

32. 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

F8

F5

F1

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

The Internet and e-mail

Development plans

Portable document files

Gantt charts

34. 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

Modification slip

None of the above

Change order

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

Chamfer

Spot face

Boss

Lug

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

Draw a series of guide lines

Sharpen the leads in the technical pens

Set up the meter line

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

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

Set the grid to isometric

Turn Ortho off

Set the current layer to Def-points

Turn Object Snap off

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

Ellipses

Iso-ellipses

Circles

Iso-circles

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

T-joint

Groove joint

Angle joint

Rear joint

40. 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

Oblique projection

Aesthetic projection

Angular projection

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