Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

None of these

Metric

Engineer's

Architect's

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

CAD trainee

Client

Receptionist

Checker

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

Transmission diagrams

Operating relays

Closed relays

Terminal circles

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

Help the client select a color for their carpet

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 understand the overall design concept

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

Perspective

Orthographic

Parallel

Oblique

6. 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 stretch tool to clean up the extension lines

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

7. 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

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

Smallest

LMC

MMC

Actual size

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

To show cylinders as ellipses

To locate center marks

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

To eliminate hidden lines

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

270

180

360

310

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

Ellipsoid

Torus

Cylinder

Cone

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

Cone

Pyramid

Prism

Torus

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

Linear

Aligned

Radial

Angle

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

As a line or edge

As an oblique surface

True size

Foreshortened

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

45 degree triangle

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

All of these

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

Amplifier tubes

Signal relays

Switches

Electron tubes

17. 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

Baseline

Quick Dimension

Linear

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

Horizontal

Planar

Orthographic

Auxiliary

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

1/4" = 1'-0"

1" = 100'

3/4" = 1'-0"

1/8" = 1'-0"

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

One foot or over

One rod or over

One inch or over

One yard or over

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21. 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

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

Extension line

Leader

Dimension line

Specification

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

According to the planar views

Vertically

Horizontally

Parallel to the frontal plane

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

Mechanical

Electrical

Civil

Architectural

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

Mechanical engineers

Aerospace engineers

All of these

Piping drafters

26. 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

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

Sheet metal

Tolerance

Datum

Angular

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

Isoplane

Outside

Inside

Radial

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

Extension line

Arrowhead line

Centerline

Dimension line

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

Plotted circuit

Transmission circuit

Conducted circuit

Integrated circuit

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

All of these

Engineering Drawing

Drafting

Engineering Graphics

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

Oblique

Line

Vertex

Edge

33. 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

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

Reference lines

Construction lines

Object lines

Construction lines

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

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

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

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

Diameter

Arc Radius

Arc Length

Radius

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

Extruded solid

Warped solid

Planar solid

Revolved solid

38. 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

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

Front view

Right side view

Top view

All of these

40. 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

14.6844

1.906

5.958

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

Construction superintendent

Drafter

Artist

Technical illustrator

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

25 or 30 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

45 or 60 degrees

30 or 45 degrees

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

Aligned dimension

Angle dimension

Linear dimension

Baseline dimension

44. 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

Left to right and top to bottom

Right to left and bottom to top

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

Profile

Base

Frontal

Horizontal

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

Process piping

Mechanical

Architectural

Civil

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