Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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1. An architect often relies on a _________ to complete the set of technical drawings used in the design of an office building.

Technical illustrator

Drafter

Construction superintendent

Artist

2. In U.S. structural and architectural drafting, all dimensions of this length are usually expressed in feet and inches:

One yard or over

One rod or over

One foot or over

One inch or over

3. In this type of dimensioning, allowance must be made for bends:

Datum

Sheet metal

Angular

Tolerance

4. When using the descriptive geometry method to create an auxiliary view the drafter should _____________.

Rotate the snap grid to the same angle of the inclined plane

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

5. Schematic and single-line diagrams should be arranged so that signal or transmission path from input to output proceeds in this fashion:

Right to left and bottom to top

Left to right and bottom to top

Left to right and top to bottom

Right to left and top to bottom

6. The principle views associated with orthographic projection are ________.

Right side view

Top view

Front view

All of these

7. A partial auxiliary view usually shows only features on the _________ of the inclined line and not any projection of other planes.

Center lines

Hidden lines

None of these

Plane

8. Some traditional board drafters preferred the drafting machine over the parallel straight edge because it could be used without the need for_____________.

Circle templates

Lettering guides

Technical pens

Triangles

9. The top, front, and bottom views align in this manner:

Vertically

Parallel to the frontal plane

According to the planar views

Horizontally

10. This is a thin solid line directing attention to a note or dimension and starting with an arrowhead or dot:

Dimension line

Extension line

Leader

Specification

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11. A civil engineer working on a bridge design would probably rely on his ________ scale for checking printed drawings.

None of these

Engineer's

Architect's

Metric

12. A drafter who develops technical drawings of a highway overpass would most likely be a ________ drafter.

Process piping

Civil

Mechanical

Architectural

13. The principle reason for using an auxiliary view is _________________.

To eliminate hidden lines

To create a true projection plane from an inclined plane in one of the primary views

To show cylinders as ellipses

To locate center marks

14. This line pattern is composed of three dashes, one long dash on each end with a short dash in the middle:

Center

Object

Phantom

Hidden

15. The ____________ dimension tool will place the length of an angled line.

Angle

Linear

Aligned

Radial

16. The lines used to create the auxiliary view should appear as ________ in the finished view.

Object lines

Reference lines

Construction lines

17. The daily workload of a ________ drafter would generally include technical drawings of machine parts.

Electrical

Civil

Architectural

Mechanical

18. Referring to the fractional inches to decimal inches to millimeter conversion chart on page 55 what is the equivalent mm measurement of ³/₁₆ inch.

4.7625

1.906

5.958

14.6844

19. Isometric drawings are often used by ________ to help illustrate complex designs.

Piping drafters

Aerospace engineers

All of these

Mechanical engineers

20. A round is a rounded surface on the ________ corner of a part.

Inside

Radial

Outside

Isoplane

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21. This type of solid is formed by sweeping a shape along a linear path:

Extruded solid

Warped solid

Revolved solid

Planar solid

22. This type of solid has a polygon for a base and triangular lateral faces that intersect at a vertex:

Prism

Cone

Torus

Pyramid

23. An advantage of this type of view is that each view shows the object all the way through as if it were transparent:

Orthographic

Planar

Horizontal

Auxiliary

24. The condition of a part when it contains the least amount of material is referred to as ________.

Smallest

MMC

LMC

Actual size

25. Several of the tools used in traditional drafting include the following:

45 degree triangle

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

All of these

26. A half-moon protractor is divided into how many degrees?

310

180

360

270

27. This is the plane upon which the top view is projected:

Frontal

Profile

Horizontal

Base

28. These types of projectors converge at a vanishing point:

Parallel

Perspective

Oblique

Orthographic

29. This is formed where three or more surfaces intersect:

Oblique

Vertex

Edge

Line

30. On typical electronic diagrams, these items need not be shown unless they are needed for clarification:

Closed relays

Operating relays

Transmission diagrams

Terminal circles

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31. The ____________ tool on the Dimension tool bar will place several dimensions at one time by using a selection box placed over several part features.

Linear

Baseline

Continue

Quick Dimension

32. If a plane is parallel to the plane of projection, it appears:

As a line or edge

As an oblique surface

True size

Foreshortened

33. When adding dimensions to an auxiliary view it will be necessary to use the ________ tool.

Linear dimension

Baseline dimension

Angle dimension

Aligned dimension

34. These items typically are not used in new designs, but are still common in high-power amplifiers:

Amplifier tubes

Electron tubes

Signal relays

Switches

35. This is the total amount that the feature on the actual part is allowed to vary from what is specified by the dimension:

Difference

Specification

Tolerance

Allowance

36. An engineer's scale would be used to measure lines on a drawing where the scale factor reads ________.

1/4" = 1'-0"

3/4" = 1'-0"

1" = 100'

1/8" = 1'-0"

37. The ________ tool on the Dimension tool bar places the length of an arch on a drawing.

Arc Length

Diameter

Arc Radius

Radius

38. Some of the common terms used to describe technical drawing include:

Drafting

Engineering Drawing

All of these

Engineering Graphics

39. Given a situation in which the drafter has crossed extension lines in a drawing what can be done to clean up the point of crossing?

Use the Tolerance tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the stretch tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Modify tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Break tool to clean up the extension lines

40. This type of solid is egg-shaped and can be created by revolving an ellipse around one of its axes:

Torus

Cone

Ellipsoid

Cylinder

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41. A ___________ is the person responsible for verifying that the drawings in a project set are free of mistakes.

Receptionist

CAD trainee

Checker

Client

42. This is a line terminated by arrowheads, indicating the direction and extent of a dimension:

Dimension line

Centerline

Arrowhead line

Extension line

43. This type of surface is tipped to all principal planes of projection and does not appear true size in any standard view:

Orthographic

Oblique

Parallel

Foreshortened

44. In oblique sketches, the most commonly used angles for receding lines are:

30 or 45 degrees

45 or 60 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

45. Three dimensional models are often used in the design process to ______________.

Provide the client with a model which they can use to impress their friends

Help the client understand the overall design concept

Determine the quantity of brick needed to build the house

Help the client select a color for their carpet

46. This type of circuit is a semiconductor wafer or chip:

Integrated circuit

Plotted circuit

Transmission circuit

Conducted circuit

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