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:

Lug

Boss

Chamfer

Spot face

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

O Snaps

Grid

Dynamic Input

Ortho

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

Iso-circles

Ellipses

Circles

Iso-ellipses

4. 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

Formatting forms

Document strips

5. 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

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

Design process

Aesthetic process

Engineering process

Functional process

7. 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.

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

Modify

Visual Styles

3-D Modeling

All of these

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

Sweep

Revolve

Extrude

None of these

10. 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 working drawing to a draft

A draft to a finished drawing

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

None of these

10, 10, 10

20, 20, 20

0, 0, 0

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

Draft drawings

Rapid prototypes

Electronic files

Change orders

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

Spot-face

Countersink

Counter-bore

Boss

15. 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

All of these

Check the engineer's scale

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

Angular

Orthographic

Parallel

Isometric

17. Spur gear design normally begins with selecting this:

Tooth size

Pitch diameter

Rack size

Gear size

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

Convolute profile

Spur circle

Involute profile

Base circle

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

Metric

Civil

Architectural

Engineering

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

None of these

Horizontal lines

Vertical lines

Circles

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21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

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

Centimeter

Meter

Millimeter

Kilometer

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

Radial

Isoplane

Inside

Outside

26. 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

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

Figure what lines are to be illustrated vertical and horizontal

None of these

Confine the isometric drawing to its maximum size

Position the isometric drawing in paper space

28. 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 2, 9

0, 0 and 17, 11

0, 0 and 18, 24

29. 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

Vertical

Inclined

None of these

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

Three

Two

One

Any number

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31. 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

None of these

Use the Join command

32. 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

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

List

Part number

Electrical layer

Electrical legend

34. There are two main types of projection

Parallel and Convergent

Parallel and Orthographic

Station-point and Perspective

Perspective and Parallel

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

T-joint

Rear joint

Groove joint

Angle joint

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

The Internet and e-mail

Portable document files

Gantt charts

Development plans

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

Hidden feature

Center axis of a hidden cylinder

Center of a circle

Center of a radius

38. 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

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

Turn Ortho off

Turn Object Snap off

Set the grid to isometric

Set the current layer to Def-points

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

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