Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-1

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

Set the grid to isometric

Turn Object Snap off

Set the current layer to Def-points

Turn Ortho off

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

Outside

Inside

Radial

Isoplane

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

Change orders

Rapid prototypes

Electronic files

Draft drawings

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

Look on a metric conversion chart

Check the engineer's scale

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

All of these

5. 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

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

Isometric

Orthographic

Parallel

Angular

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

Spot-face

Countersink

Counter-bore

Boss

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

Dynamic Input

Grid

O Snaps

Ortho

9. 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

10. 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

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

Horizontal lines

None of these

Circles

Vertical lines

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

Electrical layer

Electrical legend

List

Part number

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

Sharpen the leads in the technical pens

Set up the meter line

Draw a series of guide lines

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

14. 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 working drawing to a draft

A finished to a working drawing

An assembly to a finished drawing

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

0, 0

The beginning point of the last line

The ending point of the last line

None of these

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

Modify

Visual Styles

3-D Modeling

All of these

17. 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

Use Union to join them

Use the Add Parts tool

None of these

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

Type 3 back slash and enter

Type 3 forward slash and enter

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

None of these

Position the isometric drawing in paper space

Figure what lines are to be illustrated vertical and horizontal

Confine the isometric drawing to its maximum size

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

Meter

Centimeter

Millimeter

Kilometer

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

Document strips

Title and record strips

Formatting forms

Portable documents

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

Lug

Boss

Chamfer

Spot face

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

5"

4"

8"

6"

24. There are two main types of projection

Station-point and Perspective

Perspective and Parallel

Parallel and Convergent

Parallel and Orthographic

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

Rear joint

Groove joint

T-joint

Angle joint

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

0, 0 and 18, 24

0, 0 and 2, 9

0, 0 and 34, 24

0, 0 and 17, 11

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

F3

F1

F5

28. 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

Center of a circle

Hidden feature

29. 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

30. 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.

Vertical

Horizontal

Inclined

None of these

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

Design process

Aesthetic process

Engineering process

Functional process

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

They seem to transmit better in a fax machine

It makes no difference

Different line widths convey different information

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

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

Civil

Engineering

Architectural

Metric

34. 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

Oblique projection

Angular projection

Aesthetic projection

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

Ellipses

Circles

Iso-ellipses

Iso-circles

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

None of these

Extrude

Revolve

Sweep

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

Any number

One

Three

Two

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

Involute profile

Base circle

Convolute profile

Spur circle

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

0, 0, 0

None of these

20, 20, 20

10, 10, 10

40. Spur gear design normally begins with selecting this:

Gear size

Pitch diameter

Tooth size

Rack size

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