Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-1

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1. 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

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

None of these

Horizontal lines

Vertical lines

Circles

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

Rear joint

Angle joint

Groove joint

T-joint

4. 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

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

Isometric

Orthographic

Angular

Parallel

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

Engineering process

Aesthetic process

Design process

Functional process

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

Two

Three

Any number

One

8. 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

None of these

Use the Join command

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

Base circle

Spur circle

Convolute profile

Involute profile

10. 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

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

Design for manufacture

Design for manufacture and assembly

Design for concurrent engineering

Design for assembly

12. Spur gear design normally begins with selecting this:

Gear size

Pitch diameter

Tooth size

Rack size

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

Set the grid to isometric

Turn Ortho off

Turn Object Snap off

Set the current layer to Def-points

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

Architectural

Metric

Engineering

Civil

15. How can the drafter prevent Auto-CAD from placing or stacking another center mark on a circle when adding a diameter dimension to it?

Explode the dimension and then erase the center mark

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

It can't be done

16. 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

Oblique projection

Angular projection

Aesthetic projection

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

Radial

Isoplane

Inside

Outside

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

Iso-circles

Iso-ellipses

Ellipses

Circles

19. 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

Development plans

Portable document files

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

Kilometer

Centimeter

Meter

Millimeter

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21. 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

Draw a series of guide lines

Set up the meter line

Sharpen the leads in the technical pens

22. 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

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

Confine the isometric drawing to its maximum size

Figure what lines are to be illustrated vertical and horizontal

Position the isometric drawing in paper space

None of these

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

10, 10, 10

0, 0, 0

None of these

20, 20, 20

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

26. 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

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

List

Electrical legend

Part number

Electrical layer

28. 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.

29. 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 34, 24

0, 0 and 18, 24

0, 0 and 17, 11

30. 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

Vertical

Horizontal

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

Boss

Lug

Spot face

Chamfer

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

None of these

Revolve

Sweep

Extrude

34. There are two main types of projection

Perspective and Parallel

Parallel and Convergent

Station-point and Perspective

Parallel and Orthographic

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

Rapid prototypes

Change orders

Draft drawings

Electronic files

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

O Snaps

Grid

Ortho

Dynamic Input

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

Visual Styles

3-D Modeling

All of these

Modify

38. 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

39. 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

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

Counter-bore

Countersink

Spot-face

Boss

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