Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-1

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

Angular

Isometric

Parallel

Orthographic

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

Two

Three

Any number

One

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

Engineering process

Design process

Functional process

Aesthetic process

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

Boss

Lug

Spot face

Chamfer

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

Dynamic Input

O Snaps

Ortho

Grid

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

Iso-ellipses

Ellipses

Iso-circles

Circles

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

None of these

Confine the isometric drawing to its maximum size

Figure what lines are to be illustrated vertical and horizontal

Position the isometric drawing in paper space

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

Sharpen the leads in the technical pens

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

Draw a series of guide lines

Set up the meter line

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

None of these

0, 0

The ending point of the last line

The beginning point of the last line

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

Look on a metric conversion chart

All of these

Check the engineer's scale

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

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11. 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

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

A working drawing to a draft

An assembly to a finished drawing

A finished to a working drawing

A draft to a finished drawing

13. 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

Hidden feature

Center of a radius

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

Inside

Outside

Isoplane

Radial

15. 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

F5

F1

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

Visual Styles

All of these

Modify

3-D Modeling

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

None of these

Sweep

Revolve

Extrude

18. 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 Properties dialog box to turn off the center mark of the dimension

Explode the dimension and then erase the center mark

It can't be done

Use the trim tool to take away the stacked center mark

19. There are two main types of projection

Station-point and Perspective

Perspective and Parallel

Parallel and Orthographic

Parallel and Convergent

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

Millimeter

Kilometer

Centimeter

Meter

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

Engineering

Architectural

Metric

Civil

23. 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 the Add Parts tool

None of these

Use Union to join them

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

Spot-face

Counter-bore

Countersink

Boss

25. Spur gear design normally begins with selecting this:

Rack size

Tooth size

Pitch diameter

Gear size

26. 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 back slash and enter

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

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

Title and record strips

Document strips

Portable documents

Formatting forms

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

Set the current layer to Def-points

Set the grid to isometric

Turn Object Snap off

Turn Ortho off

29. 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

Whole new set of drawings

Change order

Modification slip

30. 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"

8"

6"

5"

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

Circles

None of these

Vertical lines

Horizontal lines

32. 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

33. 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

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

20, 20, 20

0, 0, 0

None of these

10, 10, 10

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

The Internet and e-mail

Gantt charts

Portable document files

Development plans

36. 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

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

Draft drawings

Change orders

Rapid prototypes

Electronic files

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

Design for manufacture

Design for assembly

Design for concurrent engineering

Design for manufacture and assembly

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

Convolute profile

Base circle

Spur circle

Involute profile

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

Part number

Electrical legend

List

Electrical layer

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