Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-1

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

O Snaps

Ortho

Dynamic Input

Grid

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

The beginning point of the last line

0, 0

The ending point of the last line

None of these

3. Spur gear design normally begins with selecting this:

Gear size

Pitch diameter

Rack size

Tooth size

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

One

Any number

Two

Three

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

It makes no difference

Different line widths convey different information

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

They seem to transmit better in a fax machine

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

Revolve

Sweep

Extrude

None of these

7. 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

Use the Join command

None of these

8. There are two main types of projection

Parallel and Convergent

Station-point and Perspective

Perspective and Parallel

Parallel and Orthographic

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

Orthographic

Angular

Isometric

Parallel

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

Engineering

Civil

Architectural

Metric

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

Meter

Kilometer

Millimeter

Centimeter

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

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

Use the trim tool to take away the stacked center mark

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

Iso-ellipses

Iso-circles

Ellipses

Circles

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

None of these

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

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

Hidden feature

Center of a radius

Center of a circle

Center axis of a hidden cylinder

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

Part number

Electrical layer

List

Electrical legend

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".

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

Portable documents

Document strips

Formatting forms

Title and record strips

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

Spur circle

Convolute profile

Base circle

Involute profile

20. 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 working drawing to a draft

A draft to a finished drawing

A finished to a working drawing

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

Angle joint

Groove joint

T-joint

Rear joint

22. 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

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

Counter-bore

Spot-face

Boss

Countersink

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

Draft drawings

Change orders

Electronic files

Rapid prototypes

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

Design for manufacture and assembly

Design for assembly

Design for manufacture

Design for concurrent engineering

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

Whole new set of drawings

None of the above

Modification slip

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

Development plans

The Internet and e-mail

Portable document files

Gantt charts

28. 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 34, 24

0, 0 and 17, 11

0, 0 and 18, 24

29. 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

30. 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

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

Circles

Vertical lines

None of these

Horizontal lines

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

Check the engineer's scale

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

All of these

Look on a metric conversion chart

33. 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

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

Aesthetic process

Functional process

Engineering process

Design process

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

Lug

Spot face

Chamfer

Boss

36. 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

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.

None of these

Inclined

Vertical

Horizontal

38. 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.

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

Visual Styles

All of these

Modify

3-D Modeling

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

Inside

Outside

Isoplane

Radial

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