Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-1

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

Boss

Spot-face

Countersink

Counter-bore

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

Rapid prototypes

Electronic files

Change orders

Draft drawings

3. Spur gear design normally begins with selecting this:

Gear size

Pitch diameter

Rack size

Tooth size

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

Isometric

Parallel

Angular

Orthographic

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

Formatting forms

Document strips

Title and record strips

Portable documents

6. 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

7. 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

Inclined

Vertical

Horizontal

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

Extrude

None of these

Revolve

Sweep

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

0, 0 and 34, 24

0, 0 and 17, 11

0, 0 and 18, 24

0, 0 and 2, 9

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

Rear joint

T-joint

Groove joint

Angle joint

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

4"

6"

5"

8"

12. 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

Gantt charts

Portable document files

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

Design for concurrent engineering

Design for manufacture

Design for assembly

Design for manufacture and assembly

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

Three

One

Any number

Two

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

Civil

Metric

Engineering

Architectural

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

Center of a radius

Center axis of a hidden cylinder

Hidden feature

Center of a circle

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

Lug

Spot face

Chamfer

Boss

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. 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

Perpendicular projection

Oblique projection

Aesthetic projection

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

Modify

3-D Modeling

Visual Styles

All of these

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

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

Look on a metric conversion chart

Check the engineer's scale

All of these

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

Outside

Isoplane

Radial

Inside

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

None of these

Horizontal lines

Vertical lines

Circles

24. 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

None of the above

Change order

Modification slip

25. 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

Use the Add Parts tool

Use the Join command

None of these

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

Draw a series of guide lines

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

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

Base circle

Convolute profile

Spur circle

Involute profile

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

None of these

The ending point of the last line

The beginning point of the last line

0, 0

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

Centimeter

Meter

Kilometer

Millimeter

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

Engineering process

Functional process

Aesthetic process

Design process

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

A draft to a finished drawing

An assembly to a finished drawing

A finished to a working drawing

A working drawing to a draft

32. 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

F8

F1

F3

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

Different line widths convey different information

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

It makes no difference

They seem to transmit better in a fax machine

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

None of these

20, 20, 20

10, 10, 10

0, 0, 0

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

Set the current layer to Def-points

Turn Object Snap off

Set the grid to isometric

Turn Ortho off

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

Type @3<45 and enter

Type 3 back slash and enter

Type 3 forward slash and enter

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

Ortho

Dynamic Input

Grid

O Snaps

38. There are two main types of projection

Perspective and Parallel

Station-point and Perspective

Parallel and Convergent

Parallel and Orthographic

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

Ellipses

Circles

Iso-circles

Iso-ellipses

40. 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

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