Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

Extruded solid

Revolved solid

Warped solid

Planar solid

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

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

To show cylinders as ellipses

To locate center marks

To eliminate hidden lines

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

Continue

Linear

Baseline

Quick Dimension

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

Outside

Radial

Inside

Isoplane

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

Right to left and bottom to top

Left to right and bottom to top

Left to right and top to bottom

Right to left and top to bottom

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

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

All of these

45 degree triangle

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

Conducted circuit

Transmission circuit

Integrated circuit

Plotted circuit

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

Aligned dimension

Angle dimension

Linear dimension

Baseline dimension

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

None of these

Architect's

Metric

Engineer's

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

Operating relays

Transmission diagrams

Closed relays

Terminal circles

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11. 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 Tolerance tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the stretch tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Break tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Modify tool to clean up the extension lines

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

Hidden lines

Plane

Center lines

None of these

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

Orthographic

Oblique

Foreshortened

Parallel

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

One inch or over

One rod or over

One yard or over

One foot or over

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

All of these

Engineering Graphics

Engineering Drawing

Drafting

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

Torus

Ellipsoid

Cone

Cylinder

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

Civil

Process piping

Mechanical

Architectural

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

Construction lines

Object lines

Reference lines

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

1" = 100'

1/4" = 1'-0"

1/8" = 1'-0"

3/4" = 1'-0"

20. 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.

5.958

1.906

14.6844

4.7625

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

MMC

Actual size

LMC

Smallest

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

Difference

Allowance

Tolerance

Specification

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

Civil

Architectural

Mechanical

Electrical

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

Linear

Aligned

Angle

Radial

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

Arrowhead line

Extension line

Centerline

Dimension line

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

CAD trainee

Checker

Receptionist

Client

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

Electron tubes

Signal relays

Amplifier tubes

Switches

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

Drafter

Technical illustrator

Construction superintendent

Artist

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

Front view

Top view

All of these

Right side view

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

Profile

Frontal

Base

Horizontal

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

Planar

Orthographic

Auxiliary

Horizontal

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

310

270

360

180

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

Center

Phantom

Hidden

Object

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

Triangles

Technical pens

Circle templates

Lettering guides

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

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

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

36. 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

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

True size

As an oblique surface

Foreshortened

As a line or edge

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

Parallel

Perspective

Oblique

Orthographic

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

Arc Length

Radius

Diameter

Arc Radius

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

Prism

Torus

Pyramid

Cone

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

45 or 60 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

30 or 45 degrees

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

Horizontally

According to the planar views

Vertically

Parallel to the frontal plane

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

Tolerance

Datum

Sheet metal

Angular

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

Leader

Extension line

Dimension line

Specification

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

All of these

Aerospace engineers

Piping drafters

Mechanical engineers

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

Oblique

Line

Edge

Vertex

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