Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-1

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

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

Draw a series of guide lines

2. 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

None of these

Use the Add Parts tool

Use the Join command

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

Circles

None of these

Horizontal lines

Vertical lines

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

Engineering

Civil

Architectural

Metric

5. 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 forward slash and enter

Type 3 back slash and enter

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

Spot-face

Boss

Counter-bore

Countersink

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

Millimeter

Centimeter

Kilometer

Meter

8. 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

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

3-D Modeling

Visual Styles

Modify

All of these

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

Check the engineer's scale

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

All of these

Look on a metric conversion chart

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

Convolute profile

Base circle

Spur circle

Involute profile

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

Parallel

Angular

Orthographic

Isometric

13. 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"

8"

4"

6"

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

Rear joint

Groove joint

T-joint

Angle joint

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

Any number

One

Three

Two

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

Title and record strips

Portable documents

Document strips

Formatting forms

17. 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

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

Ellipses

Circles

Iso-ellipses

Iso-circles

19. 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

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

The ending point of the last line

None of these

0, 0

The beginning point of the last line

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21. There are two main types of projection

Parallel and Orthographic

Station-point and Perspective

Perspective and Parallel

Parallel and Convergent

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

Sweep

None of these

Revolve

Extrude

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

Design for manufacture and assembly

Design for manufacture

Design for concurrent engineering

Design for assembly

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

Ortho

Grid

Dynamic Input

O Snaps

25. 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 17, 11

0, 0 and 2, 9

0, 0 and 34, 24

26. 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

None of these

Inclined

Horizontal

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

A working drawing to a draft

A finished to a working drawing

A draft to a finished drawing

An assembly to a finished drawing

28. 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

29. 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

Perpendicular projection

Angular projection

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

Set the grid to isometric

Turn Ortho off

Set the current layer to Def-points

Turn Object Snap off

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

Electronic files

Draft drawings

Change orders

Rapid prototypes

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

Boss

Chamfer

Spot face

Lug

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

Outside

Radial

Inside

Isoplane

34. Spur gear design normally begins with selecting this:

Rack size

Gear size

Pitch diameter

Tooth size

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

It can't be done

Explode the dimension and then erase the center mark

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

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

Portable document files

The Internet and e-mail

Gantt charts

Development plans

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

None of the above

Change order

Whole new set of drawings

Modification slip

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

None of these

Figure what lines are to be illustrated vertical and horizontal

Position the isometric drawing in paper space

Confine the isometric drawing to its maximum size

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

Engineering process

Design process

Aesthetic process

Functional process

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

It makes no difference

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

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