Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-2

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

Picture planes

Station points

Ground lines

Vanishing points

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

Modify

3-D Move

Rotate

Move

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

Orthographic

Auxiliary

Isometric

Perspective

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

Contours

Profiles

Hatches

Elevations

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

Adjacent

Rotated

Perpendicular

Parallel

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

Extrude

Sphere

All of these

Box

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

Cadastral maps

Landscape maps

Topographic maps

Engineering maps

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

Design drawings

Weldment drawings

Shop drawings

Application drawings

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

Structural weld

Fillet weld

Rivet weld

Beam weld

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

The midpoint and end points

The bounding lines

The center and major and minor axes

The center and radius

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

Spiral

None of these

Extrude

Taper

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

Removed section

Partial section

Auxiliary section

Revolved section

13. The MASSPROP shortcut will provide the following information.

Mass

Bounding box

Volume

All of these

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

Traverse

Plat

Contour

City map

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

Fabricating

Riveting

Welding

Assembly

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

City maps

Monument maps

Topographic maps

Cadastral maps

17. Technical drawings typically serve one of three purposes:

Communication, Documentation, or Installation

Visualization, Communication, or Documentation

Documentation, Installation, or Engineering

Visualization, Dimensioning, or Documentation

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

Dimension Space tool

Linear tool

Baseline tool

Continue tool

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

Assembly

Symbol

Perspective

Isometric

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

Allowance

Limits

Reference

GD&T

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21. A projection weld is a type of

Arc weld

Gas weld

Fillet weld

Resistance weld

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

Topographic marks

Monuments

Hatches

Pillars

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

Developed surface

Edge surface

Auxiliary surface

Ruled surface

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

Back or backing weld

Surface or groove weld

Flash and upset weld

Projection or seam weld

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

Subdivision plats

Structural topography maps

Structure location plans

Landscape maps

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

60-75 %

75-85 %

40-50 %

70-80 %

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

Concurrent design

Design for recycling

Traditional engineering design

The manufacturing process

28. 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

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

Application

Offset

Closed

Normal

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

Aggregate

Face brick

Clay tile

Natural stone

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

Perspective of the model

Shading used to render the model

All of the above

Size and shape of the model features

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

One

Four

Two

Three

33. 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.

Process piping

Electrical

Architectural

Civil

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

Point of reference

Corner

Datum

Edge

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

Aggregate

Reinforced

Preloaded

Pre-stressed

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

Cone

Pyramid

Torus

Prism

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

Revolved

Successive

Primary

Secondary

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

Front

SE isometric

Left side

All of these

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

Circular

Elliptical

Angular

Lengthened

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

Steel fabrications

Assembled fabrications

Main members

Riveted members

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

Architecture

Sheet metal construction

Mechanical engineering

Piping

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

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided prototyping

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided manufacturing

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

Primary auxiliary view

Top view

Front view

None of these

44. EDM is the acronym for:

Engineering drawing management

Engineering data manipulation

Enterprise data management

Enterprise drawing manipulation

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

Elevations

Traverse

Profiles

Plats

46. Oblique sections are useful to show this

Oblique lines

Projected features

Foreshortened features

Interior shapes

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

Welding plans

Erection plans

Assembly plans

Construction plans

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

None of these

Height

Length

Width

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

Vertex

Line

Surface

Angle

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

Arc length

Chord length

Diameter

Radius

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