Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

Architectural working

All of the above

Isometric

Mechanical

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

Hidden line

Zero

Center line

Hatch

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

Copy

Explode

None of these

Offset

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

Rivets

Thin parts

Bolts

All fasteners

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

Foundation

All of these

Floor plan

Site plan

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

Enter 3 for the length of the line

Pull the line from away from the starting point very carefully

Read the coordinate position on the Dynamic Readout

Insure that Ortho is on

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

Commercial

Residential

Publicly funded

Aerospace

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

Half

Whole

All of these

Broken out

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

Hidden

Center

Dashed

Phantom

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

Basic thread

External thread

Internal thread

Major diameter thread

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

Leader

Center

Dimension

Extension

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

Centerline piping

Double-line

Standard piping

Single-line

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

All of these

Y-axis

Z-axis

X-axis

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

Elevations

Foundation

Floor plan

Building section

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

Set the layer to Defpoints

See the entire bounding area to hatch

Turn ISO grid off

Set Ortho on

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

Quarter section

Half section

Symmetric section

Full section

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

Quick dim and linear

Baseline and continuous

Linear and continuous

Baseline and linear

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

Whole

Revolved

Half

Broken out

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

All of these

Finished floor elevations

Roof overhangs

Roof pitch angles

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

Development plans

Document reviews

Engineering change orders

Product proposals

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

Form

Union

Attach

Add

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

Designer's intent

Size of the sheet

Scale factor

None of these

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

Full

Half

Broken out

Quarter

24. The site plan illustrates _________.

The floor plan

The roof plan

Where the garage and driveway are located

Where the house sits on the property

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

Choose various line types

Control the accuracy of the drawing

Produce a visible grid system

Select a different text style

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

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided prototyping

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided engineering

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

Hatch line

Center line

Dimension line

Poly line

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

Straight

Angular

Transverse

Filleted

29. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

Siding

Roof pitch

Window style

All of these

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

Soil and waste

Water and gas

Water and steam

Gas and soil

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

Broken-out section

Half section

Removed section

Revolved section

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

1 : 4

1 : 2

2 : 1

1 : 1

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

Line type

Sheet number

All of these

Layer set

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

Metric

Architectural

Decimal

Fractional

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

Polyline

Line

Circle

Ellipse

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

Major diameter

Series of thread

Thread pitch

Lead

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

Fused deposition modeling

Stereo lithography apparatus

Solid ground curing

Selective laser sintering

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

Crest

Lead

Pitch

Root

39. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Feet and inches

Even numbers

Inches only

Feet only

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

None of the above

Sidewalk

Roof overhang

Plumbing drain lines

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

Quarter section

Revolved section

Removed section

Half section

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

Production size

Actual size

Dimensioned size

Basic size

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

Windows

Centers of cabinets

Door openings and walls

All of these

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

Paper space

Model space

The PDF file

The Finished plot

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