Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-1

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1. Spur gear design normally begins with selecting this:

Rack size

Gear size

Pitch diameter

Tooth size

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

Set up the meter line

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

Sharpen the leads in the technical pens

Draw a series of guide lines

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

3-D Modeling

All of these

Modify

Visual Styles

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

Spur circle

Involute profile

Base circle

Convolute profile

5. 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

Angular projection

Oblique projection

Aesthetic projection

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

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

10, 10, 10

None of these

20, 20, 20

0, 0, 0

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

Gantt charts

The Internet and e-mail

Portable document files

Development plans

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

Engineering

Metric

Architectural

Civil

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

One

Two

Any number

Three

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

Rapid prototypes

Draft drawings

Electronic files

Change orders

12. 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 the Join command

Use Union to join them

None of these

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

Isometric

Orthographic

Angular

Parallel

14. 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

Horizontal

Inclined

Vertical

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

Confine the isometric drawing to its maximum size

Position the isometric drawing in paper space

Figure what lines are to be illustrated vertical and horizontal

None of these

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

0, 0 and 18, 24

0, 0 and 17, 11

0, 0 and 2, 9

0, 0 and 34, 24

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

Set the current layer to Def-points

Turn Ortho off

Turn Object Snap off

Set the grid to isometric

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

Check the engineer's scale

All of these

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

Look on a metric conversion chart

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

Design for manufacture and assembly

Design for assembly

Design for concurrent engineering

Design for manufacture

20. 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

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

Ortho

Dynamic Input

O Snaps

Grid

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

Iso-circles

Iso-ellipses

Circles

Ellipses

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

Isoplane

Outside

Inside

Radial

24. 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.

25. 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

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

Countersink

Spot-face

Boss

Counter-bore

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

None of these

Extrude

Sweep

Revolve

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

Kilometer

Millimeter

Centimeter

Meter

29. 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 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

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

Circles

Vertical lines

None of these

Horizontal lines

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

Rear joint

T-joint

Angle joint

Groove joint

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

Center axis of a hidden cylinder

Center of a circle

Center of a radius

Hidden feature

33. 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

34. 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 draft to a finished drawing

A working drawing to a draft

A finished to a working drawing

35. There are two main types of projection

Station-point and Perspective

Parallel and Convergent

Parallel and Orthographic

Perspective and Parallel

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

Title and record strips

Document strips

Portable documents

Formatting forms

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

Chamfer

Boss

Lug

Spot face

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

0, 0

The ending point of the last line

The beginning point of the last line

None of these

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

Part number

Electrical layer

List

Electrical legend

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

Functional process

Design process

Engineering process

Aesthetic process

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