Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

Decimal

Architectural

Metric

Fractional

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

Designer's intent

Size of the sheet

None of these

Scale factor

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

Floor plan

Foundation

Site plan

All of these

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

Layer set

Sheet number

Line type

All of these

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

Full

Quarter

Half

Broken out

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

Development plans

Document reviews

Engineering change orders

Product proposals

7. 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

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

Thin parts

Bolts

All fasteners

Rivets

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

Residential

Publicly funded

Commercial

Aerospace

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

Thread pitch

Lead

Major diameter

Series of thread

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

Selective laser sintering

Stereo lithography apparatus

Fused deposition modeling

Solid ground curing

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

Symmetric section

Quarter section

Full section

Half section

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

Removed section

Half section

Revolved section

Quarter section

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

Dashed

Hidden

Phantom

Center

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

Offset

None of these

Explode

Copy

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

Floor plan

Building section

Elevations

Foundation

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

Isometric

All of the above

Architectural working

Mechanical

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

1 : 1

1 : 4

1 : 2

2 : 1

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

Baseline and continuous

Baseline and linear

Linear and continuous

Quick dim and linear

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

Gas and soil

Water and gas

Water and steam

Soil and waste

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

Pitch

Lead

Crest

Root

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

Whole

Broken out

Half

All of these

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

Set the layer to Defpoints

Turn ISO grid off

Set Ortho on

See the entire bounding area to hatch

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

Produce a visible grid system

Choose various line types

Select a different text style

Control the accuracy of the drawing

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

Revolved section

Half section

Broken-out section

Removed section

26. 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

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

Straight

Angular

Transverse

Filleted

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

All of these

Roof overhangs

Roof pitch angles

Finished floor elevations

29. 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

Insure that Ortho is on

Enter 3 for the length of the line

Read the coordinate position on the Dynamic Readout

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

Line

Ellipse

Circle

Polyline

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31. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

All of these

Window style

Roof pitch

Siding

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

Actual size

Basic size

Dimensioned size

Production size

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

External thread

Internal thread

Basic thread

Major diameter thread

34. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Feet and inches

Inches only

Feet only

Even numbers

35. The site plan illustrates _________.

The roof plan

The floor plan

Where the house sits on the property

Where the garage and driveway are located

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

Double-line

Centerline piping

Standard piping

Single-line

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

Centers of cabinets

All of these

Door openings and walls

Windows

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

All of these

Z-axis

Y-axis

X-axis

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

Hatch

Zero

Center line

Hidden line

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

The Finished plot

Model space

Paper space

The PDF file

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

Dimension

Extension

Leader

Center

42. 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

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

Form

Add

Attach

Union

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

Plumbing drain lines

Roof overhang

Sidewalk

None of the above

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