Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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1. The ________ tool on the Dimension tool bar places the length of an arch on a drawing.

Radius

Arc Radius

Diameter

Arc Length

2. This is the total amount that the feature on the actual part is allowed to vary from what is specified by the dimension:

Tolerance

Difference

Allowance

Specification

3. Some of the common terms used to describe technical drawing include:

All of these

Engineering Graphics

Engineering Drawing

Drafting

4. Some traditional board drafters preferred the drafting machine over the parallel straight edge because it could be used without the need for_____________.

Triangles

Circle templates

Lettering guides

Technical pens

5. Several of the tools used in traditional drafting include the following:

45 degree triangle

Parallel straight edge

All of these

45 degree triangle

6. These items typically are not used in new designs, but are still common in high-power amplifiers:

Amplifier tubes

Signal relays

Electron tubes

Switches

7. The ____________ tool on the Dimension tool bar will place several dimensions at one time by using a selection box placed over several part features.

Quick Dimension

Linear

Continue

Baseline

8. Schematic and single-line diagrams should be arranged so that signal or transmission path from input to output proceeds in this fashion:

Left to right and top to bottom

Right to left and top to bottom

Right to left and bottom to top

Left to right and bottom to top

9. A round is a rounded surface on the ________ corner of a part.

Radial

Isoplane

Inside

Outside

10. The principle views associated with orthographic projection are ________.

Top view

Right side view

All of these

Front view

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11. A half-moon protractor is divided into how many degrees?

180

310

270

360

12. An engineer's scale would be used to measure lines on a drawing where the scale factor reads ________.

1" = 100'

1/4" = 1'-0"

3/4" = 1'-0"

1/8" = 1'-0"

13. On typical electronic diagrams, these items need not be shown unless they are needed for clarification:

Transmission diagrams

Terminal circles

Operating relays

Closed relays

14. In this type of dimensioning, allowance must be made for bends:

Angular

Sheet metal

Tolerance

Datum

15. Referring to the fractional inches to decimal inches to millimeter conversion chart on page 55 what is the equivalent mm measurement of ³/₁₆ inch.

4.7625

1.906

5.958

14.6844

16. An advantage of this type of view is that each view shows the object all the way through as if it were transparent:

Auxiliary

Planar

Horizontal

Orthographic

17. Three dimensional models are often used in the design process to ______________.

Help the client select a color for their carpet

Determine the quantity of brick needed to build the house

Provide the client with a model which they can use to impress their friends

Help the client understand the overall design concept

18. This line pattern is composed of three dashes, one long dash on each end with a short dash in the middle:

Hidden

Phantom

Center

Object

19. A ___________ is the person responsible for verifying that the drawings in a project set are free of mistakes.

CAD trainee

Checker

Client

Receptionist

20. If a plane is parallel to the plane of projection, it appears:

Foreshortened

True size

As a line or edge

As an oblique surface

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21. This is formed where three or more surfaces intersect:

Oblique

Line

Edge

Vertex

22. This is a line terminated by arrowheads, indicating the direction and extent of a dimension:

Dimension line

Centerline

Arrowhead line

Extension line

23. A civil engineer working on a bridge design would probably rely on his ________ scale for checking printed drawings.

Engineer's

Architect's

None of these

Metric

24. These types of projectors converge at a vanishing point:

Parallel

Oblique

Perspective

Orthographic

25. Isometric drawings are often used by ________ to help illustrate complex designs.

Piping drafters

All of these

Mechanical engineers

Aerospace engineers

26. When using the descriptive geometry method to create an auxiliary view the drafter should _____________.

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

Rotate the snap grid to the same angle of the inclined plane

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

27. The lines used to create the auxiliary view should appear as ________ in the finished view.

Construction lines

Reference lines

Object lines

28. The principle reason for using an auxiliary view is _________________.

To eliminate hidden lines

To locate center marks

To create a true projection plane from an inclined plane in one of the primary views

To show cylinders as ellipses

29. This type of solid has a polygon for a base and triangular lateral faces that intersect at a vertex:

Torus

Pyramid

Prism

Cone

30. The condition of a part when it contains the least amount of material is referred to as ________.

Smallest

LMC

MMC

Actual size

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31. Given a situation in which the drafter has crossed extension lines in a drawing what can be done to clean up the point of crossing?

Use the stretch tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Modify tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Break tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Tolerance tool to clean up the extension lines

32. This type of solid is formed by sweeping a shape along a linear path:

Warped solid

Extruded solid

Planar solid

Revolved solid

33. This type of surface is tipped to all principal planes of projection and does not appear true size in any standard view:

Orthographic

Parallel

Oblique

Foreshortened

34. This is a thin solid line directing attention to a note or dimension and starting with an arrowhead or dot:

Specification

Extension line

Leader

Dimension line

35. The ____________ dimension tool will place the length of an angled line.

Radial

Aligned

Linear

Angle

36. A drafter who develops technical drawings of a highway overpass would most likely be a ________ drafter.

Mechanical

Architectural

Process piping

Civil

37. A partial auxiliary view usually shows only features on the _________ of the inclined line and not any projection of other planes.

Hidden lines

None of these

Plane

Center lines

38. This type of circuit is a semiconductor wafer or chip:

Plotted circuit

Conducted circuit

Transmission circuit

Integrated circuit

39. The daily workload of a ________ drafter would generally include technical drawings of machine parts.

Civil

Electrical

Mechanical

Architectural

40. An architect often relies on a _________ to complete the set of technical drawings used in the design of an office building.

Drafter

Construction superintendent

Artist

Technical illustrator

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41. In oblique sketches, the most commonly used angles for receding lines are:

30 or 45 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

45 or 60 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

42. This type of solid is egg-shaped and can be created by revolving an ellipse around one of its axes:

Torus

Cone

Cylinder

Ellipsoid

43. In U.S. structural and architectural drafting, all dimensions of this length are usually expressed in feet and inches:

One rod or over

One foot or over

One inch or over

One yard or over

44. This is the plane upon which the top view is projected:

Profile

Frontal

Base

Horizontal

45. The top, front, and bottom views align in this manner:

Vertically

Parallel to the frontal plane

According to the planar views

Horizontally

46. When adding dimensions to an auxiliary view it will be necessary to use the ________ tool.

Aligned dimension

Linear dimension

Angle dimension

Baseline dimension

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