Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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1. Objects that are symmetric can be shown effectively using this type of section:

Half section

Full section

Quarter section

Symmetric section

2. If designs require changes, they should be documented with:

Product proposals

Document reviews

Development plans

Engineering change orders

3. Architectural dimensioning standards allow for the placement of dimensions inside the floor plan. These inside dimensions locate interior __________.

Door openings and walls

All of these

Windows

Centers of cabinets

4. When creating your own blocks it is important to avoid drawing any portion of the block in the ________ layer.

Hatch

Hidden line

Center line

Zero

5. This allows the performance of structures to be analyzed and tested efficiently, accurately, and quickly:

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided prototyping

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided manufacturing

6. When using versions of Auto-CAD prior to Release 2006 it may be necessary to ________ a block in order to edit it.

Explode

None of these

Copy

Offset

7. The foundation contractor will work with the following architectural plans.

Floor plan

Site plan

Foundation

All of these

8. This type of drawing shows two lines representing the pipe diameter:

Double-line

Standard piping

Single-line

Centerline piping

9. When dimensioning architectural drawings architects will utilize both ________ and ________ options.

Linear and continuous

Baseline and linear

Quick dim and linear

Baseline and continuous

10. This is the bottom surface joining the sides of two adjacent threads:

Lead

Crest

Pitch

Root

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11. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

Siding

Roof pitch

Window style

All of these

12. The site plan illustrates _________.

Where the house sits on the property

The floor plan

The roof plan

Where the garage and driveway are located

13. This is the measured size of a finished part:

Dimensioned size

Actual size

Production size

Basic size

14. By using a ________ section of a cylindrical mechanical part the drafter should be able to show only one view of the part.

Half

Revolved

Whole

Broken out

15. The dimension text size is determined by what the architect deems necessary in _________.

Paper space

Model space

The Finished plot

The PDF file

16. When filling an area with a hatch pattern in Auto-CAD the drafter needs to be able to ________.

Set Ortho on

See the entire bounding area to hatch

Turn ISO grid off

Set the layer to Defpoints

17. The standard number of threads per inch for various diameters is the:

Series of thread

Major diameter

Lead

Thread pitch

18. When only a small section of an interior area needs to be revealed the drafter can use a ________ section.

Quarter

Broken out

Full

Half

19. In an assembly section, these parts should have their section lines left out or shown solid black:

All fasteners

Bolts

Thin parts

Rivets

20. This type of rapid prototyping system uses a laser to fuse powdered metals, plastics, or ceramics:

Selective laser sintering

Stereo lithography apparatus

Solid ground curing

Fused deposition modeling

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21. These types of pipes are generally connected with bell and spigot joints or flanged joints:

Gas and soil

Water and steam

Water and gas

Soil and waste

22. A full scale technical drawing will have a scale factor of ________.

1 : 1

1 : 4

2 : 1

1 : 2

23. When using the direct entry method to create a horizontal line exactly three inches long the drafter should ________ first.

Pull the line from away from the starting point very carefully

Enter 3 for the length of the line

Read the coordinate position on the Dynamic Readout

Insure that Ortho is on

24. This type of thread is a thread on the inside of a member:

Basic thread

External thread

Internal thread

Major diameter thread

25. When dimensioning piping drawings, you give the lengths of all runs of this type:

Straight

Filleted

Angular

Transverse

26. In an exploded assembly drawing it is customary for the drafter to use a ________ line to illustrate how parts fit together.

Hidden

Dashed

Center

Phantom

27. The Auto-CAD command used to combine two or more primitive shapes into a single complex 3-dimensional model is ________.

Form

Union

Add

Attach

28. Understanding the Cartesian coordinate system will help the beginning drafter __________.

Choose various line types

Produce a visible grid system

Select a different text style

Control the accuracy of the drawing

29. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Feet and inches

Even numbers

Inches only

Feet only

30. On a floor plan the dashed line that appears approximately 24" outside the exterior wall represents the ________.

Roof overhang

Plumbing drain lines

None of the above

Sidewalk

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31. There should be a visible gap between the wall and the _________ line.

Extension

Leader

Dimension

Center

32. When setting up a mechanical drawing in Auto-CAD the drafter should set the units to ________.

Architectural

Fractional

Metric

Decimal

33. This type of section is limited by a break line:

Broken-out section

Revolved section

Removed section

Half section

34. The architectural and construction industries use the United States National CAD standard (NCS) system on many ________ projects.

Aerospace

Commercial

Publicly funded

Residential

35. Dimensions are used on the elevation plan to describe ________.

Roof overhangs

Finished floor elevations

Roof pitch angles

All of these

36. The building construction industry relies on sets of ________ drawings to construct homes and commercial buildings.

Architectural working

All of the above

Mechanical

Isometric

37. The UCS icon represents the intersection of the __________.

Y-axis

X-axis

Z-axis

All of these

38. Drafters should use a ________ in a section view of a mechanical part that includes the cylindrical view of a threaded hole.

Dimension line

Poly line

Center line

Hatch line

39. To avoid having to dimension to a hidden feature the drafter can utilize a ________ section.

Half

Broken out

All of these

Whole

40. In this type of section, one quarter of the object is removed:

Revolved section

Removed section

Half section

Quarter section

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41. A line with a tapering width can be easily created by using the ________ tool.

Circle

Polyline

Ellipse

Line

42. One critical issue drafters need to pay close attention to is the ________.

Designer's intent

Size of the sheet

None of these

Scale factor

43. The title block used on working drawings should include the _________.

Line type

All of these

Sheet number

Layer set

44. The architectural drafter usually begins a set of working drawings by creating the ________ plan first.

Floor plan

Foundation

Elevations

Building section

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