Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-1

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

Title and record strips

Formatting forms

Document strips

Portable documents

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

Orthographic

Angular

Isometric

Parallel

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

Spot face

Chamfer

Lug

Boss

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

Metric

Architectural

Civil

Engineering

5. There are two main types of projection

Perspective and Parallel

Station-point and Perspective

Parallel and Orthographic

Parallel and Convergent

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

Spot-face

Boss

Counter-bore

Countersink

7. 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 17, 11

0, 0 and 34, 24

0, 0 and 18, 24

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

Outside

Inside

Radial

Isoplane

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

Extrude

Revolve

None of these

Sweep

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

Electronic files

Change orders

Rapid prototypes

Draft drawings

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

Circles

Vertical lines

None of these

Horizontal lines

12. 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

13. 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

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

Visual Styles

3-D Modeling

All of these

Modify

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

Any number

One

Three

Two

16. 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

17. Once the architect has finalized the house plans with the client any changes to the design requested by the client will require a ________.

None of the above

Modification slip

Change order

Whole new set of drawings

18. 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 Join command

Use the Add Parts tool

None of these

Use Union to join them

19. 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.

Horizontal

Inclined

Vertical

None of these

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

Base circle

Involute profile

Spur circle

Convolute profile

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21. 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"

6"

5"

8"

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

10, 10, 10

20, 20, 20

0, 0, 0

None of these

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

Millimeter

Meter

Centimeter

Kilometer

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

Angle joint

T-joint

Groove joint

Rear joint

25. Spur gear design normally begins with selecting this:

Tooth size

Rack size

Gear size

Pitch diameter

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

Oblique projection

Perpendicular projection

Angular projection

29. 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

F1

F3

F8

30. 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

Draw a series of guide lines

Sharpen the leads in the technical pens

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

Look on a metric conversion chart

All of these

Check the engineer's scale

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

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

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

None of these

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

Part number

Electrical legend

Electrical layer

List

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

O Snaps

Ortho

Dynamic Input

Grid

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

It makes no difference

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

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

Design for manufacture and assembly

Design for concurrent engineering

Design for assembly

Design for manufacture

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

Turn Object Snap off

Set the grid to isometric

Turn Ortho off

Set the current layer to Def-points

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

Aesthetic process

Functional process

Engineering process

Design process

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

Circles

Iso-ellipses

Ellipses

Iso-circles

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

None of these

0, 0

The ending point of the last line

The beginning point of the last line

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