Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-1

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

None of these

Circles

Horizontal lines

Vertical lines

2. 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"

4"

6"

5"

3. Spur gear design normally begins with selecting this:

Pitch diameter

Gear size

Tooth size

Rack size

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

Sharpen the leads in the technical pens

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

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

Metric

Architectural

Engineering

Civil

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

Electrical legend

Part number

Electrical layer

List

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

Engineering process

Aesthetic process

Design process

Functional process

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

None of these

Use the Add Parts tool

Use the Join command

Use Union to join them

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

None of these

The beginning point of the last line

0, 0

The ending point of the last line

10. There are two main types of projection

Perspective and Parallel

Parallel and Orthographic

Station-point and Perspective

Parallel and Convergent

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

Design for concurrent engineering

Design for manufacture

Design for manufacture and assembly

Design for assembly

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

Two

Any number

Three

One

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

Sweep

Revolve

None of these

Extrude

14. 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.

None of these

Vertical

Inclined

Horizontal

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

Center axis of a hidden cylinder

Center of a radius

Center of a circle

Hidden feature

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

O Snaps

Dynamic Input

Grid

Ortho

17. 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 and try to use the Dynamic Input readout to find the end point

Type @3<45 and enter

Type 3 back slash and enter

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

Inside

Radial

Isoplane

Outside

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

Meter

Centimeter

Kilometer

Millimeter

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

An assembly to a finished drawing

A working drawing to a draft

A draft to a finished drawing

A finished to a working drawing

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

Iso-circles

Iso-ellipses

Circles

Ellipses

22. 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:

Oblique projection

Aesthetic projection

Angular projection

Perpendicular projection

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

Visual Styles

3-D Modeling

All of these

Modify

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

Change order

Modification slip

Whole new set of drawings

None of the above

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

Groove joint

Rear joint

T-joint

Angle joint

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

Position the isometric drawing in paper space

Figure what lines are to be illustrated vertical and horizontal

None of these

Confine the isometric drawing to its maximum size

27. 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.

F8

F5

F1

F3

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

Spot-face

Counter-bore

Boss

Countersink

29. 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

Explode the dimension and then erase the center mark

It can't be done

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

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

Lug

Spot face

Boss

Chamfer

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

All of these

Check the engineer's scale

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

Look on a metric conversion chart

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

None of these

10, 10, 10

0, 0, 0

20, 20, 20

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

It makes no difference

They seem to transmit better in a fax machine

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

Different line widths convey different information

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

Base circle

Spur circle

Involute profile

Convolute profile

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

Isometric

Parallel

Angular

Orthographic

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

Draft drawings

Rapid prototypes

Change orders

Electronic files

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

Formatting forms

Portable documents

Document strips

Title and record strips

38. 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 34, 24

0, 0 and 17, 11

0, 0 and 18, 24

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

Gantt charts

The Internet and e-mail

Development plans

Portable document files

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

Set the current layer to Def-points

Turn Ortho off

Turn Object Snap off

Set the grid to isometric

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