Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

Client

Receptionist

Checker

CAD trainee

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

Profile

Horizontal

Frontal

Base

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

Operating relays

Closed relays

Terminal circles

Transmission diagrams

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

Isoplane

Radial

Outside

Inside

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

1" = 100'

1/8" = 1'-0"

1/4" = 1'-0"

3/4" = 1'-0"

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

Foreshortened

Orthographic

Parallel

Oblique

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

Drafting

Engineering Drawing

All of these

Engineering Graphics

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

Mechanical engineers

Piping drafters

All of these

Aerospace engineers

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

Reference lines

Construction lines

Object lines

Construction lines

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

To show cylinders as ellipses

To locate center marks

To eliminate hidden lines

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

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

Sheet metal

Tolerance

Angular

Datum

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

All of these

Front view

Right side view

Top view

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

According to the planar views

Vertically

Parallel to the frontal plane

Horizontally

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

Pyramid

Prism

Torus

Cone

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

Warped solid

Planar solid

Extruded solid

Revolved solid

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

Allowance

Specification

Difference

Tolerance

17. 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

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

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

Plane

Center lines

Hidden lines

None of these

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

Plotted circuit

Integrated circuit

Transmission circuit

Conducted circuit

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

Continue

Quick Dimension

Linear

Baseline

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

Electron tubes

Amplifier tubes

Switches

Signal relays

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

310

270

180

360

23. 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.

5.958

4.7625

14.6844

1.906

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

Auxiliary

Horizontal

Orthographic

Planar

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

One inch or over

One foot or over

One rod or over

One yard or over

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

Drafter

Artist

Technical illustrator

Construction superintendent

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

Specification

Leader

Extension line

Dimension line

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

Aligned

Linear

Radial

Angle

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

15 or 30 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

30 or 45 degrees

45 or 60 degrees

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

Mechanical

Civil

Architectural

Electrical

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

Oblique

Parallel

Perspective

Orthographic

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

Arc Radius

Diameter

Radius

Arc Length

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

True size

Foreshortened

As a line or edge

As an oblique surface

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

Cylinder

Ellipsoid

Torus

Cone

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

Smallest

Actual size

MMC

LMC

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

Angle dimension

Baseline dimension

Linear dimension

Aligned dimension

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

Center

Hidden

Phantom

Object

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

None of these

Architect's

Metric

Engineer's

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

Circle templates

Technical pens

Triangles

Lettering guides

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

Vertex

Oblique

Edge

Line

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

45 degree triangle

All of these

45 degree triangle

Parallel straight edge

42. 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 Modify tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Break tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Tolerance tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the stretch tool to clean up the extension lines

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

Dimension line

Extension line

Centerline

Arrowhead line

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

Architectural

Process piping

Mechanical

Civil

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

Left to right and bottom to top

Right to left and top to bottom

Right to left and bottom to top

Left to right and top to bottom

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

Help the client select a color for their carpet

Determine the quantity of brick needed to build the house

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

Help the client understand the overall design concept

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