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:

Dimension line

Leader

Specification

Extension line

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

None of these

Engineer's

Metric

Architect's

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

LMC

Actual size

MMC

Smallest

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

Engineering Drawing

All of these

Engineering Graphics

Drafting

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

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 select a color for their carpet

Help the client understand the overall design concept

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

Transmission diagrams

Closed relays

Terminal circles

Operating relays

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

Construction lines

Object lines

Reference lines

Construction lines

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

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

To eliminate hidden lines

To locate center marks

To show cylinders as ellipses

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

According to the planar views

Vertically

Horizontally

Parallel to the frontal plane

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

Top view

Right side view

All of these

Front view

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

Plane

None of these

Center lines

Hidden lines

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

Checker

Receptionist

Client

CAD trainee

13. 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

Planar

Auxiliary

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

Tolerance

Sheet metal

Datum

Angular

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

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

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

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

1/8" = 1'-0"

3/4" = 1'-0"

1/4" = 1'-0"

1" = 100'

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

Warped solid

Extruded solid

Planar solid

Revolved solid

18. 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

Linear

Quick Dimension

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

Switches

Signal relays

Electron tubes

Amplifier tubes

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 Break tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Tolerance tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Modify tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the stretch tool to clean up the extension lines

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

Electrical

Civil

Architectural

Mechanical

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

Arrowhead line

Dimension line

Extension line

Centerline

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

Technical pens

Circle templates

Lettering guides

Triangles

24. 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

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

Specification

Allowance

Difference

Tolerance

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

Parallel

Perspective

Orthographic

Oblique

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

Oblique

Vertex

Edge

Line

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

Transmission circuit

Plotted circuit

Conducted circuit

Integrated circuit

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

Base

Horizontal

Profile

Frontal

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

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

All of these

45 degree triangle

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

Angle dimension

Aligned dimension

Baseline dimension

Linear dimension

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

270

360

180

310

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

Aerospace engineers

Piping drafters

All of these

Mechanical engineers

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

Cylinder

Torus

Cone

Ellipsoid

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

Mechanical

Civil

Process piping

Architectural

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

Torus

Prism

Pyramid

Cone

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

Phantom

Hidden

Center

Object

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

Arc Radius

Arc Length

Diameter

Radius

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

Aligned

Linear

Radial

Angle

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

One inch or over

One rod or over

One yard or over

One foot or over

42. 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 bottom to top

Left to right and bottom to top

Right to left and top to bottom

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

Outside

Isoplane

Inside

Radial

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

True size

As a line or edge

As an oblique surface

Foreshortened

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

Oblique

Orthographic

Foreshortened

Parallel

46. 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.

1.906

14.6844

5.958

4.7625

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