Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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1. 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 Break tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Modify tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Tolerance tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the stretch tool to clean up the extension lines

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

Checker

CAD trainee

Receptionist

Client

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

Center lines

Plane

Hidden lines

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

All of these

Drafting

Engineering Graphics

Engineering Drawing

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

Baseline dimension

Angle dimension

Linear dimension

Aligned dimension

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

Revolved solid

Warped solid

Planar solid

Extruded solid

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

According to the planar views

Horizontally

Vertically

Parallel to the frontal plane

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

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

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

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

Civil

Electrical

Mechanical

Architectural

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

15 or 30 degrees

30 or 45 degrees

45 or 60 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

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

Pyramid

Cone

Prism

Torus

12. 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

4.7625

14.6844

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

Diameter

Arc Length

Arc Radius

Radius

14. 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

15. 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

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

Mechanical engineers

All of these

Aerospace engineers

Piping drafters

17. 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

Right to left and bottom to top

Left to right and bottom to top

Right to left and top to bottom

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.

Baseline

Quick Dimension

Linear

Continue

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

Object lines

Reference lines

Construction lines

20. 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

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

Conducted circuit

Plotted circuit

Integrated circuit

Transmission circuit

22. 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'

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

310

270

180

360

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

To locate center marks

To show cylinders as ellipses

To eliminate hidden lines

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

25. 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

Horizontal

Planar

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

Front view

Right side view

All of these

Top view

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

Tolerance

Difference

Allowance

Specification

28. 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

Lettering guides

Circle templates

29. 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

Help the client understand the overall design concept

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

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

Isoplane

Inside

Radial

Outside

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

Cone

Cylinder

Torus

Ellipsoid

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

Oblique

Vertex

Line

Edge

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

Extension line

Arrowhead line

Dimension line

Centerline

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

As a line or edge

As an oblique surface

True size

Foreshortened

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

All of these

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

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

Transmission diagrams

Operating relays

Terminal circles

Closed relays

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

Aligned

Radial

Angle

Linear

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

Parallel

Oblique

Foreshortened

Orthographic

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

Engineer's

Metric

Architect's

None of these

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

Switches

Amplifier tubes

Signal relays

Electron tubes

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

MMC

Smallest

LMC

Actual size

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

Process piping

Mechanical

Civil

Architectural

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

Horizontal

Base

Frontal

Profile

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

Sheet metal

Datum

Tolerance

Angular

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

Orthographic

Oblique

Parallel

Perspective

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