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 concurrent engineering

Design for assembly

Design for manufacture and assembly

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

Parallel

Isometric

Orthographic

Angular

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"

5"

4"

8"

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

Engineering

Architectural

Civil

Metric

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

Portable documents

Formatting forms

Document strips

Title and record strips

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

Three

Any number

One

Two

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

Spur circle

Convolute profile

Involute profile

Base circle

8. 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

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

Horizontal lines

Vertical lines

None of these

Circles

10. 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.

None of these

Vertical

Inclined

Horizontal

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11. There are two main types of projection

Parallel and Convergent

Perspective and Parallel

Parallel and Orthographic

Station-point and Perspective

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

Electronic files

Rapid prototypes

Change orders

Draft drawings

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

Chamfer

Boss

Spot face

Lug

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

Angle joint

Groove joint

T-joint

Rear joint

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

Set the grid to isometric

Turn Object Snap off

Set the current layer to Def-points

Turn Ortho off

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

Center axis of a hidden cylinder

Center of a radius

Center of a circle

Hidden feature

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

It makes no difference

Different line widths convey different information

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

They seem to transmit better in a fax machine

18. 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

Perpendicular projection

Angular projection

Aesthetic projection

19. 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 2, 9

0, 0 and 34, 24

0, 0 and 18, 24

20. 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

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

Aesthetic process

Design process

Functional process

Engineering process

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

Look on a metric conversion chart

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

All of these

Check the engineer's scale

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

Centimeter

Kilometer

Millimeter

Meter

24. Spur gear design normally begins with selecting this:

Gear size

Rack size

Pitch diameter

Tooth size

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

0, 0, 0

None of these

20, 20, 20

10, 10, 10

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

Sweep

Extrude

Revolve

None of these

27. 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 back 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 forward slash and enter

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

Radial

Inside

Outside

Isoplane

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

None of these

The beginning point of the last line

The ending point of the last line

0, 0

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

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

Draw a series of guide lines

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31. 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

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

Circles

Ellipses

Iso-circles

Iso-ellipses

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

A draft to a finished drawing

A finished to a working drawing

A working drawing to a draft

An assembly to a finished drawing

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

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

None of these

35. 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

36. 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

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

Boss

Counter-bore

Spot-face

Countersink

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

Modify

Visual Styles

3-D Modeling

All of these

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?

It can't be done

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

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

O Snaps

Grid

Dynamic Input

Ortho

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