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

Portable documents

Document strips

Formatting forms

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

Lug

Spot face

Boss

Chamfer

3. 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

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

0, 0, 0

None of these

20, 20, 20

10, 10, 10

5. Spur gear design normally begins with selecting this:

Rack size

Pitch diameter

Tooth size

Gear size

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

Convolute profile

Spur circle

Involute profile

Base circle

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

Spot-face

Boss

Counter-bore

Countersink

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

6"

5"

4"

8"

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

Grid

O Snaps

Dynamic Input

Ortho

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 Add Parts tool

None of these

Use the Join command

Use Union to join them

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

Check the engineer's scale

All of these

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

Look on a metric conversion chart

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

Horizontal lines

None of these

Vertical lines

Circles

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:

Angular projection

Oblique projection

Aesthetic projection

Perpendicular projection

14. There are two main types of projection

Parallel and Convergent

Perspective and Parallel

Parallel and Orthographic

Station-point and Perspective

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

Modify

Visual Styles

3-D Modeling

All of these

16. 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

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

Rear joint

T-joint

Angle joint

Groove joint

18. 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 forward slash and enter

Type 3 back slash and enter

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

Type @3<45 and enter

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

Aesthetic process

Engineering process

Design process

Functional process

20. 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

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

It can't be done

Explode the dimension and then erase the center mark

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

Centimeter

Meter

Kilometer

Millimeter

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

Orthographic

Isometric

Parallel

Angular

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

One

Two

Any number

Three

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

Metric

Architectural

Engineering

Civil

25. 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

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

It makes no difference

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

Change orders

Electronic files

Rapid prototypes

Draft drawings

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

A draft to a finished drawing

An assembly to a finished drawing

A finished to a working drawing

A working drawing to a draft

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

Extrude

Revolve

Sweep

None of these

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

Development plans

Portable document files

Gantt charts

The Internet and e-mail

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

Electrical legend

Electrical layer

List

Part number

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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 34, 24

0, 0 and 2, 9

0, 0 and 17, 11

0, 0 and 18, 24

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

Outside

Isoplane

Inside

Radial

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.

Inclined

Horizontal

Vertical

None of these

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

None of these

The ending point of the last line

The beginning point of the last line

0, 0

35. 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.

F8

F1

F3

F5

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

Circles

Iso-ellipses

Iso-circles

Ellipses

37. 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

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

Design for manufacture and assembly

Design for manufacture

Design for assembly

Design for concurrent engineering

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

None of these

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

40. 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

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