Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-2

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1. In a CAD system, you can draw an ellipse by specifying these

The center and major and minor axes

The center and radius

The midpoint and end points

The bounding lines

2. Architectural drafters generally prefer to use ________ drawings to help illustrate 3-dimensional views of a structure.

Isometric

Perspective

Auxiliary

Orthographic

3. This type of structural steel drawing shows all dimensions necessary for fabrication:

Design drawings

Weldment drawings

Application drawings

Shop drawings

4. Switches and relays should be shown in this position with no operating force or applied energy:

Application

Closed

Normal

Offset

5. This is the most common application for developments and intersections:

Mechanical engineering

Piping

Architecture

Sheet metal construction

6. Perspective drawings are classified according to their number of these features:

Vanishing points

Picture planes

Ground lines

Station points

7. This type of drawing is created to calculate areas, locate property lines, and locate building projects and facilities:

Plat

Traverse

Contour

City map

8. A circular arc is dimensioned in the view where you see its true shape by giving the value for its

Diameter

Chord length

Radius

Arc length

9. An oil refinery relies on which type of drafter to maintain and update the technical piping drawings used for the construction and maintenance of the facility.

Architectural

Electrical

Process piping

Civil

10. The Press-Pull tool will ________ the face of a solid model in the direction it faces.

Spiral

None of these

Taper

Extrude

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11. Welding drawings are a special type of this kind of drawing:

Perspective

Symbol

Assembly

Isometric

12. In this type of concrete, the steel is pre-tensioned before the superimposed load is applied:

Preloaded

Reinforced

Pre-stressed

Aggregate

13. A projection weld is a type of

Arc weld

Resistance weld

Gas weld

Fillet weld

14. This allows the designer to conceptualize objects more easily without having to make costly illustrations, models, or prototypes:

Computer-aided prototyping

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided engineering

15. EDM is the acronym for:

Enterprise drawing manipulation

Enterprise data management

Engineering data manipulation

Engineering drawing management

16. Oblique sections are useful to show this

Foreshortened features

Projected features

Interior shapes

Oblique lines

17. These weld symbols have no arrow-side or other-side significance:

Flash and upset weld

Surface or groove weld

Projection or seam weld

Back or backing weld

18. This type of weld is the most common in structural steel fabrication:

Structural weld

Rivet weld

Fillet weld

Beam weld

19. These are lines drawn on a map to locate, in the plan view, points of equal ground elevation:

Profiles

Elevations

Hatches

Contours

20. This material is used in masonry construction, most commonly for ornamental facing:

Natural stone

Aggregate

Clay tile

Face brick

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21. These are joined together in the field to build a structure:

Assembled fabrications

Riveted members

Main members

Steel fabrications

22. Circular shapes appear in this fashion when viewed at an angle other than 90 degrees:

Angular

Circular

Lengthened

Elliptical

23. A secondary auxiliary view is a projection off of the __________.

None of these

Primary auxiliary view

Top view

Front view

24. The View toolbar will position the view of the 3-D solid toward the ________.

Front

All of these

Left side

SE isometric

25. These maps are used in planning installations of trees, shrubbery, drives, and other garden features:

Cadastral maps

Landscape maps

Topographic maps

Engineering maps

26. In this type of view, the cutting plane line indicates both the location of the cutting plane and the direction of sight:

Partial section

Removed section

Revolved section

Auxiliary section

27. The Free Orbit tool is found on the ________ toolbar.

Move

Modify

3-D Move

Rotate

28. This type of surface may be a plane, a single curved surface, or a warped surface

Auxiliary surface

Edge surface

Ruled surface

Developed surface

29. These are special installations of stone or concrete marking the locations of points accurately determined by precise surveying:

Monuments

Hatches

Topographic marks

Pillars

30. CAD programs which incorporate parametric modeling utilize a system in which the dimensions control the ________.

All of the above

Shading used to render the model

Size and shape of the model features

Perspective of the model

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31. Technical drawings typically serve one of three purposes:

Documentation, Installation, or Engineering

Visualization, Communication, or Documentation

Communication, Documentation, or Installation

Visualization, Dimensioning, or Documentation

32. Approximately this much of the cost of product development and manufacture is determined at the design stage

70-80 %

40-50 %

60-75 %

75-85 %

33. A partial auxiliary view is used to show only the __________ in the auxiliary view.

The projected top view

None of these

Projected inclined plane

The projected side view

34. The offset distance for the width (front to back) distance of the auxiliary view is the same distance of the ________ in the top view.

Width

Height

Length

None of these

35. The MASSPROP shortcut will provide the following information.

All of these

Bounding box

Volume

Mass

36. This is a systematic approach that integrates the design and manufacture of products with the goal of optimizing the process

The manufacturing process

Design for recycling

Traditional engineering design

Concurrent design

37. This type of solid has two bases that are parallel equal polygons:

Torus

Pyramid

Prism

Cone

38. Baseline dimensions are referenced from a common geometric feature known as a ________.

Datum

Point of reference

Edge

Corner

39. Students can complete an associate's degree in drafting which normally takes about __________ years to complete.

Three

One

Four

Two

40. These plans, made by the steel fabricator, are assembly drawings for the steel structure

Assembly plans

Construction plans

Welding plans

Erection plans

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41. This is used in drawings to represent the edge of a solid object:

Vertex

Angle

Line

Surface

42. The maximum and minimum sizes of a feature are identified by a ________ tolerance.

Allowance

Reference

Limits

GD&T

43. These are vertical distances above a common datum, reference plane, or point:

Plats

Elevations

Traverse

Profiles

44. This type of auxiliary view is projected onto a plane that is perpendicular to one of the principal planes of projection:

Primary

Successive

Secondary

Revolved

45. These are accurately drawn maps of cities and towns showing property lines and other features that control property ownership:

Topographic maps

Cadastral maps

City maps

Monument maps

46. These maps are used to plan construction projects that locate construction features so they fit the topography of the area:

Structure location plans

Landscape maps

Subdivision plats

Structural topography maps

47. In oblique projection, important shapes should be in this position relative to the viewing plane:

Adjacent

Perpendicular

Parallel

Rotated

48. This is a common method for connecting steel members of buildings and bridges:

Assembly

Fabricating

Welding

Riveting

49. One way to evenly space dimensions on a drawing is to use the __________.

Linear tool

Continue tool

Baseline tool

Dimension Space tool

50. The 3-D commands on the Modeling toolbar include __________.

Sphere

All of these

Box

Extrude

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