Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

Architectural

Electrical

Mechanical

Civil

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

1/4" = 1'-0"

3/4" = 1'-0"

1/8" = 1'-0"

1" = 100'

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

Hidden

Phantom

Object

Center

4. 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

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

Profile

Base

Horizontal

Frontal

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

Arc Radius

Arc Length

Radius

Diameter

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

Edge

Vertex

Line

Oblique

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

Circle templates

Triangles

Technical pens

Lettering guides

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

Tolerance

Specification

Difference

Allowance

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

Extruded solid

Planar solid

Warped solid

Revolved solid

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

Electron tubes

Signal relays

Switches

Amplifier tubes

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

Engineering Drawing

Drafting

All of these

Engineering Graphics

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

Sheet metal

Tolerance

Datum

Angular

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

30 or 45 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

45 or 60 degrees

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

Angle dimension

Baseline dimension

Linear dimension

Aligned dimension

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

All of these

Top view

Front view

Right side view

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

Construction lines

Reference lines

Object lines

Construction lines

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

Linear

Continue

Quick Dimension

Baseline

19. 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.

14.6844

5.958

4.7625

1.906

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

Artist

Drafter

Technical illustrator

Construction superintendent

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

360

180

310

270

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

Architectural

Mechanical

Civil

Process piping

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

Arrowhead line

Extension line

Dimension line

Centerline

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

One rod or over

One yard or over

One inch or over

One foot or over

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

LMC

Smallest

MMC

Actual size

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

Foreshortened

Parallel

Orthographic

Oblique

27. 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

Left to right and top to bottom

Left to right and bottom to top

Right to left and bottom to top

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

Isoplane

Radial

Outside

Inside

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

Oblique

Parallel

Perspective

Orthographic

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

Horizontally

Vertically

Parallel to the frontal plane

According to the planar views

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

Receptionist

Checker

Client

CAD trainee

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

Determine the quantity of brick needed to build the house

Help the client select a color for their carpet

Help the client understand the overall design concept

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

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

Plotted circuit

Conducted circuit

Integrated circuit

Transmission circuit

34. 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 locate center marks

To show cylinders as ellipses

To eliminate hidden lines

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

All of these

Aerospace engineers

Mechanical engineers

Piping drafters

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

Cone

Prism

Torus

Pyramid

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

45 degree triangle

Parallel straight edge

All of these

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

As an oblique surface

Foreshortened

True size

As a line or edge

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

Aligned

Radial

Linear

Angle

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

Torus

Cylinder

Cone

Ellipsoid

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41. 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

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

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

Terminal circles

Closed relays

Operating relays

Transmission diagrams

43. 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

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

Auxiliary

Orthographic

Planar

Horizontal

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

Leader

Specification

Extension line

Dimension line

46. 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

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