Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-1

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

Spot face

Lug

Chamfer

Boss

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

Countersink

Counter-bore

Boss

Spot-face

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

Engineering process

Functional process

Aesthetic process

Design process

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

Design for concurrent engineering

Design for assembly

Design for manufacture

Design for manufacture and assembly

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

Dynamic Input

Grid

Ortho

O Snaps

6. 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.

F3

F1

F5

F8

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

T-joint

Angle joint

Groove joint

Rear joint

8. 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 18, 24

0, 0 and 2, 9

0, 0 and 34, 24

9. 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 Join command

None of these

Use Union to join them

Use the Add Parts tool

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

Development plans

The Internet and e-mail

Portable document files

Gantt charts

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

Orthographic

Parallel

Isometric

Angular

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

Center of a circle

Center of a radius

Hidden feature

Center axis of a hidden cylinder

13. 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

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

14. 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

15. 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

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

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

All of these

Check the engineer's scale

Look on a metric conversion chart

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

Iso-circles

Iso-ellipses

Ellipses

Circles

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

Position the isometric drawing in paper space

Confine the isometric drawing to its maximum size

None of these

Figure what lines are to be illustrated vertical and horizontal

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

A finished to a working drawing

An assembly to a finished drawing

A draft to a finished drawing

A working drawing to a draft

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

Outside

Radial

Inside

Isoplane

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

List

Part number

Electrical legend

Electrical layer

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

Circles

Horizontal lines

None of these

Vertical lines

23. 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:

Angular projection

Oblique projection

Aesthetic projection

Perpendicular projection

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

Base circle

Spur circle

Convolute profile

Involute profile

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

10, 10, 10

None of these

20, 20, 20

0, 0, 0

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

Draw a series of guide lines

Set up the meter line

Sharpen the leads in the technical pens

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

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

The beginning point of the last line

The ending point of the last line

None of these

0, 0

28. There are two main types of projection

Perspective and Parallel

Parallel and Orthographic

Station-point and Perspective

Parallel and Convergent

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

Electronic files

Draft drawings

Rapid prototypes

Change orders

30. Spur gear design normally begins with selecting this:

Tooth size

Rack size

Gear size

Pitch diameter

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31. 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

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

Millimeter

Centimeter

Meter

Kilometer

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

Revolve

Extrude

None of these

Sweep

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

All of these

3-D Modeling

Visual Styles

Modify

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

Portable documents

Document strips

Formatting forms

Title and record strips

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

Any number

Two

One

Three

37. 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

None of the above

Whole new set of drawings

38. 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"

8"

4"

5"

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

Metric

Civil

Engineering

Architectural

40. 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<45 and enter

Type 3 forward slash and enter

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

Type 3 back slash and enter

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