Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-1

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

Countersink

Boss

Spot-face

Counter-bore

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

Design for assembly

Design for manufacture and assembly

Design for manufacture

Design for concurrent engineering

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

Turn Ortho off

Set the current layer to Def-points

Set the grid to isometric

Turn Object Snap off

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

Angular

Parallel

Orthographic

Isometric

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

Aesthetic process

Design process

Engineering process

Functional process

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

Kilometer

Centimeter

Millimeter

Meter

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

Lug

Boss

Spot face

Chamfer

8. 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

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

T-joint

Groove joint

Angle joint

Rear joint

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

Confine the isometric drawing to its maximum size

None of these

Figure what lines are to be illustrated vertical and horizontal

Position the isometric drawing in paper space

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11. 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 forward slash and enter

Type @3<45 and enter

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

12. Spur gear design normally begins with selecting this:

Gear size

Pitch diameter

Rack size

Tooth size

13. 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

Perpendicular projection

Angular projection

Oblique projection

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

Circles

Vertical lines

None of these

Horizontal lines

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

4"

5"

8"

6"

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

0, 0, 0

20, 20, 20

None of these

10, 10, 10

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

O Snaps

Ortho

Grid

Dynamic Input

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

Spur circle

Involute profile

Base circle

Convolute profile

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

0, 0 and 34, 24

0, 0 and 18, 24

0, 0 and 17, 11

0, 0 and 2, 9

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

Metric

Civil

Engineering

Architectural

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

The beginning point of the last line

0, 0

None of these

The ending point of the last line

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

Hidden feature

Center axis of a hidden cylinder

Center of a radius

Center of a circle

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

Isoplane

Inside

Outside

Radial

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

Visual Styles

3-D Modeling

All of these

Modify

25. 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

Use the Join command

Use the Add Parts tool

None of these

26. 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

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

Portable document files

Development plans

Gantt charts

The Internet and e-mail

28. 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

Draw a series of guide lines

Set up the meter line

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

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

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

None of these

Sweep

Extrude

Revolve

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

Two

Any number

One

Three

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

All of these

Look on a metric conversion chart

Check the engineer's scale

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

33. 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

Change order

Whole new set of drawings

None of the above

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

Iso-circles

Iso-ellipses

Circles

Ellipses

35. 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 finished to a working drawing

A draft to a finished drawing

A working drawing to a draft

36. There are two main types of projection

Station-point and Perspective

Parallel and Convergent

Perspective and Parallel

Parallel and Orthographic

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

Title and record strips

Portable documents

Formatting forms

Document strips

38. 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.

F5

F3

F1

F8

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

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

Different line widths convey different information

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

Change orders

Rapid prototypes

Draft drawings

Electronic files

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