Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-1

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

Design for assembly

Design for concurrent engineering

Design for manufacture and assembly

Design for manufacture

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

Vertical lines

Circles

Horizontal lines

None of these

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

Ortho

O Snaps

Dynamic Input

Grid

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

20, 20, 20

None of these

0, 0, 0

10, 10, 10

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

All of these

Check the engineer's scale

Look on a metric conversion chart

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

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

Use Union to join them

None of these

Use the Add Parts tool

Use the Join command

7. 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 forward slash and enter

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

Type 3 back slash and enter

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

Iso-circles

Iso-ellipses

Ellipses

Circles

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

Isometric

Orthographic

Parallel

Angular

10. 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

Modification slip

Whole new set of drawings

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11. Spur gear design normally begins with selecting this:

Gear size

Pitch diameter

Tooth size

Rack size

12. 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:

Aesthetic projection

Angular projection

Oblique projection

Perpendicular projection

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

A finished to a working drawing

An assembly to a finished drawing

A draft to a finished drawing

A working drawing to a draft

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

Countersink

Boss

Counter-bore

Spot-face

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

None of these

Position the isometric drawing in paper space

Confine the isometric drawing to its maximum size

Figure what lines are to be illustrated vertical and horizontal

16. 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.

Inclined

None of these

Horizontal

Vertical

17. 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 18, 24

0, 0 and 17, 11

0, 0 and 34, 24

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

Electronic files

Rapid prototypes

Change orders

Draft drawings

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

Hidden feature

Center of a radius

Center axis of a hidden cylinder

Center of a circle

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

Outside

Inside

Isoplane

Radial

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

Electrical layer

Part number

List

Electrical legend

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

Visual Styles

All of these

Modify

3-D Modeling

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

5"

4"

6"

8"

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

Gantt charts

Portable document files

Development plans

The Internet and e-mail

25. 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

Set up the meter line

Draw a series of guide lines

Sharpen the leads in the technical pens

26. There are two main types of projection

Perspective and Parallel

Parallel and Convergent

Station-point and Perspective

Parallel and Orthographic

27. 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

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

Meter

Kilometer

Centimeter

Millimeter

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

Spot face

Boss

Chamfer

Lug

30. 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

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

Functional process

Aesthetic process

Design process

Engineering process

32. 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

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.

F3

F1

F5

F8

34. 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

Explode the dimension and then erase the center mark

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

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

One

Two

Any number

Three

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

Rear joint

Groove joint

Angle joint

T-joint

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

Civil

Engineering

Metric

Architectural

38. 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

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

Sweep

Revolve

None of these

Extrude

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

Involute profile

Spur circle

Convolute profile

Base circle

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