Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

Inside

Isoplane

Outside

Radial

2. 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 Modify tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the stretch tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Tolerance tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Break tool to clean up the extension lines

3. 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

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

Torus

Prism

Pyramid

Cone

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

Smallest

Actual size

MMC

LMC

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

All of these

45 degree triangle

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

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

Front view

Right side view

Top view

All of these

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

Engineering Graphics

All of these

Drafting

Engineering Drawing

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

Foreshortened

As an oblique surface

True size

As a line or edge

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

45 or 60 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

30 or 45 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

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

310

270

180

360

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

Transmission circuit

Plotted circuit

Integrated circuit

Conducted circuit

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

Piping drafters

Mechanical engineers

All of these

Aerospace engineers

14. 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

Baseline

Continue

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

Signal relays

Switches

Electron tubes

Amplifier tubes

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

Line

Oblique

Edge

Vertex

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

Architectural

Civil

Mechanical

Electrical

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

Construction lines

Object lines

Construction lines

Reference lines

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

Angle dimension

Baseline dimension

Aligned dimension

Linear dimension

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

Architect's

Metric

None of these

Engineer's

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

Transmission diagrams

Operating relays

Terminal circles

Closed relays

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

Horizontally

Parallel to the frontal plane

According to the planar views

Vertically

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

Help the client select a color for their carpet

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

Help the client understand the overall design concept

Determine the quantity of brick needed to build the house

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

Orthographic

Parallel

Perspective

Oblique

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

Mechanical

Civil

Architectural

Process piping

26. 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

14.6844

5.958

1.906

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

Extruded solid

Warped solid

Revolved solid

Planar solid

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

Diameter

Radius

Arc Radius

Arc Length

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

Planar

Horizontal

Orthographic

Auxiliary

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

Datum

Sheet metal

Tolerance

Angular

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

Dimension line

Arrowhead line

Extension line

Centerline

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

Center

Object

Hidden

Phantom

34. 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 top line of the front view 45 degrees

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

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

One yard or over

One foot or over

One inch or over

One rod or over

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

To eliminate hidden lines

To show cylinders as ellipses

To locate center marks

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

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

1/8" = 1'-0"

1" = 100'

1/4" = 1'-0"

3/4" = 1'-0"

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

Client

CAD trainee

Checker

Receptionist

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

None of these

Plane

Center lines

Hidden lines

40. 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 top to bottom

Right to left and bottom to top

Left to right and top to bottom

Left to right and bottom to top

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

Allowance

Tolerance

Difference

Specification

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

Radial

Linear

Angle

Aligned

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

Frontal

Profile

Horizontal

Base

44. 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

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

Parallel

Foreshortened

Oblique

Orthographic

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

Cone

Torus

Cylinder

Ellipsoid

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