Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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1. 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

Allowance

Difference

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

Process piping

Architectural

Civil

Mechanical

3. 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

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

Revolved solid

Planar solid

Extruded solid

Warped solid

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

Engineer's

Architect's

Metric

None of these

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

Front view

Top view

Right side view

All of these

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

Torus

Prism

Pyramid

Cone

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

Construction superintendent

Artist

Drafter

Technical illustrator

9. 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 eliminate hidden lines

To show cylinders as ellipses

10. 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

Quick Dimension

Baseline

Linear

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

Hidden

Object

Center

Phantom

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

Dimension line

Arrowhead line

Centerline

Extension line

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

Linear dimension

Angle dimension

Aligned dimension

Baseline dimension

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

Terminal circles

Closed relays

Transmission diagrams

Operating relays

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

Switches

Electron tubes

Signal relays

Amplifier tubes

16. 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 Break tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the stretch tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Modify tool to clean up the extension lines

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

Inside

Isoplane

Outside

Radial

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

Orthographic

Foreshortened

Parallel

Oblique

19. 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

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

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

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

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

Mechanical

Architectural

Electrical

Civil

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

Perspective

Orthographic

Parallel

Oblique

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

Cone

Cylinder

Torus

Ellipsoid

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

1/4" = 1'-0"

1" = 100'

3/4" = 1'-0"

1/8" = 1'-0"

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

Horizontal

Orthographic

Planar

Auxiliary

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

15 or 30 degrees

45 or 60 degrees

30 or 45 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

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

Piping drafters

All of these

Aerospace engineers

Mechanical engineers

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

All of these

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

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

Conducted circuit

Plotted circuit

Integrated circuit

Transmission circuit

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

Frontal

Base

Horizontal

Profile

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

Diameter

Radius

Arc Length

Arc Radius

32. 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.

1.906

4.7625

14.6844

5.958

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

Receptionist

CAD trainee

Checker

Client

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

True size

As a line or edge

As an oblique surface

Foreshortened

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

310

360

270

180

36. 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

Left to right and bottom to top

Right to left and top to bottom

Right to left and bottom to top

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

Edge

Line

Oblique

Vertex

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

LMC

MMC

Actual size

Smallest

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

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

Help the client select a color for their carpet

Determine the quantity of brick needed to build the house

Help the client understand the overall design concept

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

Drafting

Engineering Graphics

Engineering Drawing

All of these

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

According to the planar views

Horizontally

Vertically

Parallel to the frontal plane

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

Linear

Angle

Radial

Aligned

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

Sheet metal

Tolerance

Datum

Angular

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

Construction lines

Reference lines

Construction lines

Object lines

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

One yard or over

One rod or over

One inch or over

One foot or over

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

Triangles

Lettering guides

Technical pens

Circle templates

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