Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-1

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

Aesthetic process

Design process

Engineering process

Functional process

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

Modification slip

Whole new set of drawings

None of the above

Change order

3. 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.

Inclined

Horizontal

None of these

Vertical

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

Use the trim tool to take away the stacked center mark

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

Explode the dimension and then erase the center mark

It can't be done

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

Chamfer

Spot face

Lug

Boss

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

Confine the isometric drawing to its maximum size

Position the isometric drawing in paper space

None of these

Figure what lines are to be illustrated vertical and horizontal

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

None of these

Horizontal lines

Circles

Vertical lines

8. 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

Different line widths convey different information

They seem to transmit better in a fax machine

It makes no difference

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

Visual Styles

3-D Modeling

Modify

All of these

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

Outside

Radial

Isoplane

Inside

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

Any number

Three

One

Two

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

Iso-circles

Ellipses

Circles

Iso-ellipses

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

Design for manufacture and assembly

Design for manufacture

Design for assembly

Design for concurrent engineering

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

Angular

Isometric

Orthographic

Parallel

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

20, 20, 20

10, 10, 10

None of these

0, 0, 0

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

Architectural

Metric

Civil

Engineering

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

Draw a series of guide lines

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

Sharpen the leads in the technical pens

Set up the meter line

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

Part number

Electrical layer

Electrical legend

List

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

A draft to a finished drawing

A finished to a working drawing

An assembly to a finished drawing

A working drawing to a draft

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

Base circle

Involute profile

Spur circle

Convolute profile

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21. 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 back slash and enter

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

Type 3 forward slash and enter

Type @3<45 and enter

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

6"

4"

5"

8"

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

Ortho

O Snaps

Grid

Dynamic Input

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

Portable document files

Development plans

Gantt charts

The Internet and e-mail

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

Center axis of a hidden cylinder

Center of a circle

Center of a radius

Hidden feature

26. There are two main types of projection

Perspective and Parallel

Station-point and Perspective

Parallel and Convergent

Parallel and Orthographic

27. 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:

Aesthetic projection

Perpendicular projection

Angular projection

Oblique projection

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

Use the Add Parts tool

Use Union to join them

None of these

Use the Join command

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

Spot-face

Counter-bore

Countersink

Boss

30. 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.

F1

F5

F3

F8

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

Centimeter

Kilometer

Meter

Millimeter

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

Rapid prototypes

Electronic files

Draft drawings

Change orders

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

None of these

Extrude

Sweep

Revolve

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

0, 0

None of these

The beginning point of the last line

The ending point of the last line

35. Spur gear design normally begins with selecting this:

Pitch diameter

Tooth size

Gear size

Rack size

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

0, 0 and 17, 11

0, 0 and 2, 9

0, 0 and 18, 24

0, 0 and 34, 24

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

Set the grid to isometric

Set the current layer to Def-points

Turn Object Snap off

Turn Ortho off

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

All of these

Look on a metric conversion chart

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

Check the engineer's scale

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

Title and record strips

Formatting forms

Portable documents

Document strips

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

Angle joint

T-joint

Groove joint

Rear joint

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