Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-1

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1. The text height for room names should be set to ________for a drawing that will be plotted to a scale of ¼" = 1'-0".

8"

6"

4"

5"

2. Using this as a communication and design review tool can help shorten the process and eliminate productivity barriers:

The Internet and e-mail

Portable document files

Development plans

Gantt charts

3. The primary unit of measurement for engineering drawings and design in the mechanical industries is the:

Millimeter

Kilometer

Meter

Centimeter

4. A fillet is a rounded surface on the ________ corner of a part.

Outside

Inside

Isoplane

Radial

5. In order to create one solid model from two or more separate solid shapes the drafter will need to position them and then ________.

Use Union to join them

None of these

Use the Add Parts tool

Use the Join command

6. The Conceptual Visual Style tool is located on the ________ toolbar.

Visual Styles

3-D Modeling

All of these

Modify

7. Traditional drafters need to be able to create several different line widths because ________.

The line width has to do with how dark it appear in the finished drawing

They seem to transmit better in a fax machine

It makes no difference

Different line widths convey different information

8. This process recognizes the inherent interrelationships between design and manufacturing:

Design for concurrent engineering

Design for assembly

Design for manufacture and assembly

Design for manufacture

9. In order to convert fractional inches into decimal inches __________.

Divide the numerator (top number) by the denominator (bottom number)

Check the engineer's scale

All of these

Look on a metric conversion chart

10. The most common geometric form used in gears today is this

Spur circle

Base circle

Involute profile

Convolute profile

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11. When creating an isometric drawing in Auto-CAD the drafter can utilize the Dynamic Input and Polar Coordinate system to place both vertical and horizontal lines. A line created from one point 3 inches at 180 degrees would be a ________ line.

Horizontal

None of these

Vertical

Inclined

12. Oblique drawings are dimensioned in a similar fashion as these types of drawings:

Angular

Parallel

Orthographic

Isometric

13. To insure that everyone understands what the electrical symbols represent it is customary to include a ________ on the electrical sheet.

Electrical legend

List

Part number

Electrical layer

14. Before starting an isometric drawing in Auto-CAD the drafter needs to ________.

Turn Object Snap off

Set the grid to isometric

Turn Ortho off

Set the current layer to Def-points

15. This is a conical-shaped recess around a hole, often used to receive a tapered screw head

Spot-face

Boss

Countersink

Counter-bore

16. The organized and orderly approach to solving problems is known as the

Engineering process

Functional process

Design process

Aesthetic process

17. Spur gear design normally begins with selecting this:

Pitch diameter

Tooth size

Gear size

Rack size

18. In working drawings, these show all necessary information not given directly on the drawing with its dimensions and notes:

Title and record strips

Portable documents

Formatting forms

Document strips

19. Generally, the units used on an architectural drawing are set to __________.

Architectural

Civil

Engineering

Metric

20. Drawings created with commercial software are typically saved as:

Draft drawings

Electronic files

Change orders

Rapid prototypes

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21. There are two main types of projection

Station-point and Perspective

Parallel and Orthographic

Parallel and Convergent

Perspective and Parallel

22. In order to create an isometric circle to represent a hole through the top surface of a box, the drafter must insure that the correct iso-plane has been selected by scrolling through the iso-planes using the ________ key.

F5

F1

F8

F3

23. The default position of the UCS icon is positioned at ________ on the Auto-CAD grid.

None of these

20, 20, 20

0, 0, 0

10, 10, 10

24. How can the drafter prevent Auto-CAD from placing or stacking another center mark on a circle when adding a diameter dimension to it?

It can't be done

Use the Properties dialog box to turn off the center mark of the dimension

Explode the dimension and then erase the center mark

Use the trim tool to take away the stacked center mark

25. Auto-CAD refers to isometric ellipses as ________.

Iso-ellipses

Iso-circles

Circles

Ellipses

26. Using the Relative Polar Coordinate System to add a 3 inch line that is 45 degrees from the end point of the line created above the drafter would ________.

Type 3 forward slash and enter

Type @3<45 and enter

Type 3 back slash and enter

Type 3 and try to use the Dynamic Input readout to find the end point

27. Which of the following is one of the basic types of welded joints:

Angle joint

T-joint

Rear joint

Groove joint

28. Inserting blocks into a drawing file usually requires exacting placement. The drafter should insure that ________ is turned on.

Grid

Ortho

O Snaps

Dynamic Input

29. The first step in creating a traditional technical drawing is to ________.

Set up the meter line

Align the paper so that it will be positioned square to the parallel bar

Draw a series of guide lines

Sharpen the leads in the technical pens

30. Once a drawing is determined to be complete, the title block is used to document the change from:

A finished to a working drawing

A draft to a finished drawing

A working drawing to a draft

An assembly to a finished drawing

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31. The bounding box method for setting up an isometric drawing helps the drafter ________.

None of these

Confine the isometric drawing to its maximum size

Position the isometric drawing in paper space

Figure what lines are to be illustrated vertical and horizontal

32. A line drawn with a long section, short dash, and another long section is a __________.

Center of a circle

Hidden feature

Center axis of a hidden cylinder

Center of a radius

33. This is a flat or rounded tab protruding from a surface, usually to provide a method for attachment:

Chamfer

Spot face

Lug

Boss

34. When lettering a CAD drawing, for clarity you should limit the number of fonts to:

Three

One

Two

Any number

35. When drawing a line using the relative coordinate system a line is created from ________.

The ending point of the last line

0, 0

None of these

The beginning point of the last line

36. This type of projection is when projectors are parallel to each other, but are at an angle other than 90 degrees to the plane of projection:

Perpendicular projection

Angular projection

Oblique projection

Aesthetic projection

37. A cylinder can be created by drawing a rectangular shape then the ________ tool.

Sweep

Extrude

Revolve

None of these

38. The Offset tool should only be used for placing _________ in an isometric drawing.

Vertical lines

None of these

Circles

Horizontal lines

39. Once the architect has finalized the house plans with the client any changes to the design requested by the client will require a ________.

Whole new set of drawings

Modification slip

None of the above

Change order

40. In order to set drawing limits for a 'C' size architectural drawing the drafter should set the limits to ________.

0, 0 and 2, 9

0, 0 and 17, 11

0, 0 and 34, 24

0, 0 and 18, 24

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