Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-1

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

Circles

Horizontal lines

None of these

Vertical lines

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

Gantt charts

Portable document files

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

None of these

Figure what lines are to be illustrated vertical and horizontal

Confine the isometric drawing to its maximum size

Position the isometric drawing in paper space

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

Center of a radius

Center of a circle

Center axis of a hidden cylinder

Hidden feature

5. 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

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

Countersink

Counter-bore

Spot-face

Boss

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

Grid

Ortho

O Snaps

Dynamic Input

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

Rapid prototypes

Change orders

Draft drawings

Electronic files

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

Centimeter

Millimeter

Meter

Kilometer

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

Extrude

None of these

Sweep

Revolve

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

Involute profile

Convolute profile

Spur circle

Base circle

12. There are two main types of projection

Perspective and Parallel

Parallel and Orthographic

Station-point and Perspective

Parallel and Convergent

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

List

Part number

Electrical layer

Electrical legend

14. 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

15. 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

Inclined

Horizontal

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<45 and enter

Type 3 back slash and enter

Type 3 forward slash and enter

Type 3 and try to use the Dynamic Input readout to find the end point

17. 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

It makes no difference

They seem to transmit better in a fax machine

Different line widths convey different information

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

Circles

Iso-ellipses

Iso-circles

Ellipses

19. 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

Oblique projection

Angular projection

20. 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

None of the above

Whole new set of drawings

Modification slip

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

Chamfer

Boss

Spot face

Lug

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

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

All of these

Check the engineer's scale

Look on a metric conversion chart

23. 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

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

0, 0, 0

10, 10, 10

None of these

20, 20, 20

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

Title and record strips

Formatting forms

Portable documents

Document strips

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

Design process

Functional process

Engineering process

Aesthetic process

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

28. Spur gear design normally begins with selecting this:

Pitch diameter

Rack size

Tooth size

Gear size

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

One

Any number

Two

Three

30. 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 finished to a working drawing

A draft to a finished drawing

An assembly to a finished drawing

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

Visual Styles

3-D Modeling

All of these

Modify

32. 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

33. 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.

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

Groove joint

T-joint

Rear joint

Angle joint

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

Radial

Isoplane

Outside

Inside

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

Parallel

Orthographic

Angular

Isometric

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

Engineering

Metric

Civil

Architectural

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

Turn Ortho off

Set the current layer to Def-points

Turn Object Snap off

Set the grid to isometric

39. 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

Explode the dimension and then erase the center mark

It can't be done

40. 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

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