Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-4

May 28, 2021

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1. In the mechanical design process the first step is to ________.

Prepare rough sketches

Brainstorm solutions

Prepare a budget

Identify the problem

2. In architectural drawing ________ are often used to illustrate and detail structural components.

Wall sections

All of these

Building sections

Foundation beam detail sections

3. This type of section is not in direct projection from the view containing the cutting plane:

Revolved section

Broken-out section

Removed section

Full section

4. Dimension text is generally placed above the ________ line.

Dimension

Center

Extension

Leader

5. In order to create an accurate assembly drawing the drafter should create the ________ drawings first.

Parts list

Detail

Isometric

Title block

6. The section view drawing in which one fourth of an object has been marked for removal is known as a _________ section.

Full

Quarter

Half

None of these

7. When creating a Cutting Plane line with Auto-CAD it is customary to use a ________ to create the line.

Center line

Dashed line

Hatch line

Polyline

8. This is the term for the range of tightness or looseness resulting from the allowances and tolerances in mating parts:

Allowance

Limits

Specifications

Fit

9. The edges of a cube in isometric projection make angles of this many degrees with each other:

120

10. A ________ section allows the drafter to create a Cutting Plane line which is not in a straight line across the part.

Offset

Broken out

Half

Whole

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11. It is customary for the first sheet of a working drawing set to include __________.

All of these

A parts list

Assembled assembly

Exploded assembly

12. Acceptable parts must not extend beyond this:

Boundary limits

Hole limits

Specification

Tolerances

13. This is a rounded exterior blend between surfaces:

Taper

Chamfer

Round

Fillet

14. When designing a home for a client, one of the most important pre-design considerations that an architect needs to address is ______________.

Whether or not there is a curb and gutter system

The site on which the house is to sit

The nearest grocery store

How much money the client is willing to spend

15. These units are based on inch-foot and yard measurements:

U.S. customary units

ISO International units

International customary units

U.S. metric units

16. This is the range of digital or hard copy documents that specify the physical function requirements for a product:

Product design

Engineering design

Product definition

Drawing definition

17. Angles project true size only when the plane containing the angle and plane of projection are this:

Perpendicular

Aligned

Parallel

Adjacent

18. Placement of dimensions on a drawing is controlled by ________.

ANSI

All of these

The design engineer

Corporate drafting standards

19. The typical parts list should include the _________.

Manufacturing material

All of these

Part number

Number of parts needed

20. In offset sections, offsets or bends in the cutting plane are all:

180 degrees

30, 60 or 90 degrees

90 degrees

Either 90 or 180 degrees

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21. These breaks are used to shorten the view of an object:

Conventional breaks

Section breaks

Full breaks

Aligned breaks

22. A back or backing weld is a type of:

Upset weld

Resistance weld

Arc and gas weld

Groove weld

23. This means that a feature of a finished product contains the maximum amount of material permitted by the tolerance dimensions for that feature:

Maximum material condition

Machine mark indication

Machined material condition

Maximum machined indication

24. The second line of dimensions out from the plan generally includes _________.

The distances between outside walls and interior walls

Centers of doors and windows

The measurement from one outside corner to the opposite outside corner

The measurement from the outside of the brick to the inside of the exterior wall

25. The thread note for a typical bolt will include the _________.

Offset distance

Material

Major diameter of the thread

Center line

26. The ________ is a standard element of a section view in a technical drawing.

Section lines

Material hatch pattern

All of these

Cutting Plane line

27. This is used to indicate that a surface is to be machined:

Roughness indicator

Finish mark

Coordinate mark

Machining mark

28. In isometric projection, all distances are approximately this percentage of their true size:

20 percent

50 percent

120 percent

80 percent

29. Lines of an isometric drawing that are not parallel to the isometric axes are called this:

Non-isometric lines

Dimetric lines

Multiview lines

Trimetric lines

30. In this type of auxiliary view, a break line is used to indicate the imaginary break in the views:

Primary

Revolved

Secondary

Partial

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31. The distance a screw thread advances axially in one turn is the:

Turn

Lead

Crest

Pitch

32. This is an angled surface used on cylinders to make them easier to handle:

Taper

Lug

Chamfer

Fillet

33. In the section view, the areas that would have been in actual contact with the cutting plane are shown with:

Visible lines

A cutting plane line

Section lining

Lines and arrows

34. This is how axonometric, oblique, and perspective sketches show objects:

Orthographically

Pictorially

Parallel

Obliquely

35. These are used to attach parts to a cylinder so they won't turn on it:

Keys and key-ways/key-seats

Lugs and bearings

Knurls and keys

Key-seats and bearings

36. This is the smallest diameter of a screw thread:

Internal thread diameter

Minor diameter

Major diameter

External thread diameter

37. In this type of projection, each of the axes has different ratios of foreshortening:

Parallel

Dimetric

Trimetric

Isometric

38. When lines intersect on a drawing at angles of this many degrees, it is customary not to dimension the angle:

180

360

39. A typical set of mechanical working drawings includes ________.

Parts list

Part details

Exploded assembly

All of these

40. The text used on a typical detail sheet should be ________.

None of these

In bold text

In an architectural text style

Placed horizontally

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41. Some of the standard Auto-CAD text styles used in architectural drawings includes _________.

Country Blueprint

Stylus BT

City Blueprint

All of these

42. PDM is the acronym for:

Product drawing manipulation

Project data manipulation

Product data management

Project drawing management

43. This is the theoretically exact size from which limits of size are determined:

Actual Size

Production size

Basic size

Dimensioned size

44. This practice considers an individual part's dimensions and tolerances and that part's relation to its related parts:

Creating datum references

Applying allowances

Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing

Angular dimensioning tolerances

45. This type of axonometric drawing has equal foreshortening along two axis directions and a different amount on the third axis:

Multiview

Trimetric

Isometric

Dimetric

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