Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-1

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1. 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

Portable document files

Development plans

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

Extrude

Revolve

Sweep

None of these

3. 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

Use Union to join them

None of these

Use the Join command

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

Design process

Aesthetic process

Engineering process

Functional process

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

Convolute profile

Spur circle

Base circle

Involute profile

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

Countersink

Spot-face

Counter-bore

Boss

7. 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

Angular projection

Perpendicular projection

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

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

None of these

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

Visual Styles

3-D Modeling

All of these

Modify

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

The beginning point of the last line

The ending point of the last line

0, 0

None of these

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

Parallel

Isometric

Orthographic

Angular

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

Set the grid to isometric

Turn Ortho off

Turn Object Snap off

Set the current layer to Def-points

14. 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

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

Design for manufacture

Design for assembly

Design for manufacture and assembly

Design for concurrent engineering

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

Inside

Radial

Outside

Isoplane

17. 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"

6"

8"

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

None of these

0, 0, 0

10, 10, 10

20, 20, 20

19. 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

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

T-joint

Groove joint

Angle joint

Rear joint

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

One

Two

Three

Any number

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

Center of a radius

Center of a circle

Center axis of a hidden cylinder

Hidden feature

23. 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 34, 24

0, 0 and 17, 11

0, 0 and 2, 9

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

Boss

Spot face

Lug

Chamfer

25. 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

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

Electronic files

Rapid prototypes

Change orders

Draft drawings

27. Spur gear design normally begins with selecting this:

Gear size

Tooth size

Pitch diameter

Rack size

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

All of these

Check the engineer's scale

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

Look on a metric conversion chart

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

Title and record strips

Document strips

Portable documents

Formatting forms

30. 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

None of the above

Change order

Whole new set of drawings

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

Iso-ellipses

Ellipses

Circles

Iso-circles

32. 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 and try to use the Dynamic Input readout to find the end point

Type 3 back slash and enter

Type @3<45 and enter

Type 3 forward slash and enter

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

None of these

Horizontal lines

Circles

Vertical lines

34. There are two main types of projection

Perspective and Parallel

Parallel and Convergent

Parallel and Orthographic

Station-point and Perspective

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

A finished to a working drawing

A draft to a finished drawing

A working drawing to a draft

An assembly to a finished drawing

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

Centimeter

Millimeter

Meter

Kilometer

37. 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

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

Electrical layer

List

Part number

Electrical legend

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

Different line widths convey different information

They seem to transmit better in a fax machine

It makes no difference

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

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

Civil

Metric

Architectural

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