Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-1

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

One

Any number

Two

Three

2. Spur gear design normally begins with selecting this:

Pitch diameter

Tooth size

Gear size

Rack size

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

Horizontal lines

Circles

None of these

Vertical lines

4. 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<45 and enter

Type 3 forward slash and enter

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

Architectural

Metric

Engineering

Civil

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

Inside

Radial

Outside

Isoplane

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

Modify

All of these

3-D Modeling

Visual Styles

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

O Snaps

Grid

Ortho

Dynamic Input

9. There are two main types of projection

Station-point and Perspective

Perspective and Parallel

Parallel and Convergent

Parallel and Orthographic

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

8"

5"

6"

4"

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

Iso-ellipses

Ellipses

Iso-circles

Circles

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

Chamfer

Lug

Spot face

Boss

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

The ending point of the last line

None of these

0, 0

The beginning point of the last line

14. 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 finished to a working drawing

A draft to a finished drawing

A working drawing to a draft

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

Change orders

Electronic files

Draft drawings

Rapid prototypes

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

None of these

Extrude

Revolve

Sweep

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

T-joint

Groove joint

Rear joint

Angle joint

18. 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.

Horizontal

Inclined

Vertical

None of these

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

Angular

Isometric

Parallel

Orthographic

20. 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

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21. 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

F3

F8

F1

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

Countersink

Counter-bore

Boss

Spot-face

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

Gantt charts

Portable document files

The Internet and e-mail

Development plans

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

Design for manufacture and assembly

Design for concurrent engineering

Design for manufacture

Design for assembly

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

None of these

Position the isometric drawing in paper space

Figure what lines are to be illustrated vertical and horizontal

Confine the isometric drawing to its maximum size

26. 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

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

Turn Object Snap off

Turn Ortho off

Set the current layer to Def-points

Set the grid to isometric

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

None of these

Use the Add Parts tool

Use the Join command

Use Union to join them

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

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

Look on a metric conversion chart

All of these

Check the engineer's scale

30. 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 18, 24

0, 0 and 2, 9

0, 0 and 17, 11

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31. 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

32. 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

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

Aesthetic process

Engineering process

Design process

Functional process

34. 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

Angular projection

Perpendicular projection

35. 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

It can't be done

Use the trim tool to take away the stacked center mark

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

Different line widths convey different information

They seem to transmit better in a fax machine

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

It makes no difference

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

20, 20, 20

10, 10, 10

0, 0, 0

None of these

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

Center of a circle

Hidden feature

Center of a radius

Center axis of a hidden cylinder

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

Involute profile

Spur circle

Convolute profile

Base circle

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

Millimeter

Centimeter

Meter

Kilometer

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