Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

Extension line

Dimension line

Leader

Specification

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

1/8" = 1'-0"

1" = 100'

1/4" = 1'-0"

3/4" = 1'-0"

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

Terminal circles

Operating relays

Closed relays

Transmission diagrams

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

Baseline

Quick Dimension

Linear

Continue

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

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

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

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

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

Centerline

Extension line

Dimension line

Arrowhead line

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

Engineer's

None of these

Metric

Architect's

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

Orthographic

Oblique

Foreshortened

Parallel

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

Artist

Construction superintendent

Technical illustrator

Drafter

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

Object lines

Construction lines

Reference lines

Construction lines

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

Oblique

Line

Vertex

Edge

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

Plotted circuit

Integrated circuit

Transmission circuit

Conducted circuit

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

Cone

Ellipsoid

Torus

Cylinder

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

45 degree triangle

All of these

45 degree triangle

Parallel straight edge

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

Help the client understand the overall design concept

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

Determine the quantity of brick needed to build the house

Help the client select a color for their carpet

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

Architectural

Civil

Process piping

Mechanical

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

310

360

180

270

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

All of these

Mechanical engineers

Piping drafters

Aerospace engineers

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

Frontal

Horizontal

Profile

Base

20. 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 Tolerance tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Break tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the stretch tool to clean up the extension lines

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21. 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 top to bottom

Right to left and top to bottom

Left to right and bottom to top

Right to left and bottom to top

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

Mechanical

Electrical

Architectural

Civil

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

To locate center marks

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

To eliminate hidden lines

To show cylinders as ellipses

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

Specification

Tolerance

Allowance

Difference

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

Oblique

Parallel

Orthographic

Perspective

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

Switches

Amplifier tubes

Electron tubes

Signal relays

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

Arc Radius

Arc Length

Radius

Diameter

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

Front view

Right side view

All of these

Top view

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

Smallest

MMC

Actual size

LMC

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

All of these

Drafting

Engineering Drawing

Engineering Graphics

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

Cone

Torus

Prism

Pyramid

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

Foreshortened

As a line or edge

True size

As an oblique surface

33. 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

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

Angle dimension

Aligned dimension

Linear dimension

Baseline dimension

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

30 or 45 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

45 or 60 degrees

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

Orthographic

Horizontal

Auxiliary

Planar

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

Extruded solid

Planar solid

Warped solid

Revolved solid

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

According to the planar views

Horizontally

Parallel to the frontal plane

Vertically

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

Radial

Inside

Outside

Isoplane

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

Phantom

Center

Object

Hidden

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

Client

Checker

Receptionist

CAD trainee

42. 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 inch or over

One foot or over

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

Radial

Linear

Angle

Aligned

44. 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

14.6844

1.906

4.7625

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

Tolerance

Angular

Datum

Sheet metal

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

Technical pens

Triangles

Circle templates

Lettering guides

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