Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-1

May 20, 2021

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

Center axis of a hidden cylinder

Hidden feature

Center of a circle

Center of a radius

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

Visual Styles

All of these

Modify

3-D Modeling

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

Engineering

Architectural

Metric

Civil

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

Design for manufacture and assembly

Design for concurrent engineering

Design for manufacture

Design for assembly

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

T-joint

Angle joint

Groove joint

Rear joint

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

Lug

Boss

Chamfer

Spot face

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

Kilometer

Millimeter

Meter

Centimeter

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

Countersink

Boss

Counter-bore

Spot-face

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

Isometric

Parallel

Angular

Orthographic

10. 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

Use Union to join them

None of these

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11. 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 17, 11

0, 0 and 18, 24

0, 0 and 2, 9

12. 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<45 and enter

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

Type 3 forward slash and enter

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

Three

Two

One

Any number

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

Circles

None of these

Horizontal lines

Vertical lines

15. 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

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

Revolve

Sweep

Extrude

None of these

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

10, 10, 10

None of these

0, 0, 0

20, 20, 20

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

Isoplane

Outside

Inside

Radial

19. 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)

20. There are two main types of projection

Perspective and Parallel

Parallel and Orthographic

Parallel and Convergent

Station-point and Perspective

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

Portable documents

Title and record strips

Document strips

Formatting forms

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

The line width has to do with how dark it appear in the finished drawing

It makes no difference

They seem to transmit better in a fax machine

Different line widths convey different information

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

Draft drawings

Rapid prototypes

Change orders

Electronic files

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

O Snaps

Ortho

Grid

Dynamic Input

25. Spur gear design normally begins with selecting this:

Pitch diameter

Gear size

Rack size

Tooth size

26. 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

None of the above

Whole new set of drawings

27. 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:

Oblique projection

Aesthetic projection

Perpendicular projection

Angular projection

28. 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.

Vertical

Horizontal

None of these

Inclined

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

Figure what lines are to be illustrated vertical and horizontal

Position the isometric drawing in paper space

None of these

Confine the isometric drawing to its maximum size

30. 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

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

Draw a series of guide lines

Sharpen the leads in the technical pens

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

Set up the meter line

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

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

Iso-circles

Iso-ellipses

Ellipses

Circles

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

Involute profile

Convolute profile

Base circle

Spur circle

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

Functional process

Design process

Engineering process

Aesthetic process

36. 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 finished to a working drawing

A working drawing to a draft

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

Set the grid to isometric

Turn Object Snap off

Turn Ortho off

Set the current layer to Def-points

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

Electrical legend

Part number

List

Electrical layer

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

The ending point of the last line

None of these

The beginning point of the last line

0, 0

40. 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.

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