Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

May 27, 2021

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

Lettering guides

Technical pens

Circle templates

Triangles

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

Closed relays

Operating relays

Terminal circles

Transmission diagrams

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

Process piping

Architectural

Mechanical

Civil

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

Parallel

Perspective

Orthographic

Oblique

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

1/8" = 1'-0"

3/4" = 1'-0"

1" = 100'

1/4" = 1'-0"

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

Switches

Signal relays

Amplifier tubes

Electron tubes

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

To locate center marks

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

To eliminate hidden lines

To show cylinders as ellipses

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

Receptionist

Client

Checker

CAD trainee

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

According to the planar views

Parallel to the frontal plane

Horizontally

Vertically

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

180

270

310

360

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11. 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

Baseline

Continue

Linear

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

MMC

Actual size

Smallest

LMC

13. 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

4.7625

1.906

5.958

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

Cone

Ellipsoid

Torus

Cylinder

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

Linear dimension

Angle dimension

Aligned dimension

Baseline dimension

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

Center lines

None of these

Hidden lines

Plane

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

30 or 45 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

45 or 60 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

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

Tolerance

Allowance

Difference

Specification

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

Foreshortened

Oblique

Orthographic

Parallel

20. 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

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

Inside

Isoplane

Radial

Outside

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

Datum

Sheet metal

Tolerance

Angular

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

Radial

Aligned

Angle

Linear

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

Planar solid

Extruded solid

Warped solid

Revolved solid

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

Oblique

Edge

Line

Vertex

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

Top view

Front view

All of these

Right side view

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

Reference lines

Object lines

Construction lines

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

Foreshortened

As a line or edge

As an oblique surface

True size

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

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

Determine the quantity of brick needed to build the house

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

Technical illustrator

Drafter

Artist

Construction superintendent

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

All of these

45 degree triangle

Parallel straight edge

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

Aerospace engineers

Piping drafters

All of these

Mechanical engineers

33. 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 foot or over

One inch or over

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

Cone

Prism

Torus

Pyramid

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

Drafting

Engineering Graphics

Engineering Drawing

All of these

36. 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

37. 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

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

Arc Radius

Diameter

Arc Length

Radius

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

Frontal

Base

Profile

Horizontal

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

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

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

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

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

Arrowhead line

Dimension line

Extension line

Centerline

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

Conducted circuit

Integrated circuit

Transmission circuit

Plotted circuit

43. 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

44. 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

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

Specification

Leader

Extension line

Dimension line

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

Mechanical

Civil

Electrical

Architectural

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