Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-1

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

Position the isometric drawing in paper space

Figure what lines are to be illustrated vertical and horizontal

Confine the isometric drawing to its maximum size

None of these

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

Gantt charts

Development plans

Portable document files

The Internet and e-mail

3. 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

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

Spot face

Boss

Chamfer

Lug

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

Civil

Engineering

Architectural

Metric

6. There are two main types of projection

Parallel and Orthographic

Perspective and Parallel

Parallel and Convergent

Station-point and Perspective

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

Radial

Inside

Outside

Isoplane

8. 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.

F1

F3

F8

F5

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

Spot-face

Counter-bore

Countersink

Boss

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

They seem to transmit better in a fax machine

Different line widths convey different information

It makes no difference

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

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

Visual Styles

3-D Modeling

Modify

All of these

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

Any number

Three

Two

One

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

None of these

Extrude

Sweep

Revolve

14. 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 forward slash and enter

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

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

Part number

Electrical layer

Electrical legend

List

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

Angle joint

T-joint

Groove joint

Rear joint

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

Isometric

Angular

Parallel

Orthographic

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

Kilometer

Centimeter

Meter

Millimeter

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

Formatting forms

Title and record strips

Document strips

Portable documents

20. 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

None of these

Use Union to join them

Use the Add Parts tool

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

Use the trim tool to take away the stacked center mark

Explode the dimension and then erase the center mark

Use the Properties dialog box to turn off the center mark of the dimension

It can't be done

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

A working drawing to a draft

An assembly to a finished drawing

A finished to a working drawing

A draft to a finished drawing

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

None of these

10, 10, 10

20, 20, 20

0, 0, 0

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

Whole new set of drawings

Modification slip

Change order

None of the above

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

Hidden feature

Center of a circle

Center axis of a hidden cylinder

Center of a radius

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

Spur circle

Involute profile

Base circle

Convolute profile

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

Turn Ortho off

Turn Object Snap off

Set the grid to isometric

Set the current layer to Def-points

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

Change orders

Rapid prototypes

Electronic files

Draft drawings

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

Iso-ellipses

Circles

Iso-circles

Ellipses

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

Design process

Functional process

Aesthetic process

Engineering process

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

0, 0 and 18, 24

0, 0 and 17, 11

0, 0 and 34, 24

0, 0 and 2, 9

32. 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

Aesthetic projection

Angular projection

Oblique projection

33. 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

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

8"

5"

6"

4"

35. 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

Sharpen the leads in the technical pens

Draw a series of guide lines

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

Horizontal lines

Circles

Vertical lines

None of these

37. Spur gear design normally begins with selecting this:

Tooth size

Rack size

Gear size

Pitch diameter

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

Check the engineer's scale

Look on a metric conversion chart

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

All of these

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

0, 0

The beginning point of the last line

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

O Snaps

Ortho

Grid

Dynamic Input

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