Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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1. 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

Linear

Continue

Quick Dimension

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

Frontal

Base

Profile

Horizontal

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

Angle dimension

Baseline dimension

Aligned dimension

Linear dimension

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

Switches

Amplifier tubes

Signal relays

Electron tubes

5. 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 foot or over

One yard or over

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

Radius

Arc Radius

Arc Length

Diameter

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

Civil

Process piping

Mechanical

Architectural

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

Warped solid

Extruded solid

Revolved solid

Planar solid

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

310

180

360

270

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

Allowance

Difference

Specification

Tolerance

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

Angular

Tolerance

Datum

Sheet metal

12. 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

5.958

4.7625

14.6844

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

Cone

Prism

Torus

Pyramid

14. 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 select a color for their carpet

Help the client understand the overall design concept

Determine the quantity of brick needed to build the house

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

Vertex

Line

Edge

Oblique

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

Foreshortened

True size

As a line or edge

As an oblique surface

17. 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 stretch tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Tolerance tool to clean up the extension lines

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

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

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

19. 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

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

Architectural

Civil

Mechanical

Electrical

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21. 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

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

Front view

All of these

Right side view

Top view

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

Parallel

Orthographic

Oblique

Foreshortened

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

To locate center marks

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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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"

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

Horizontally

Parallel to the frontal plane

Vertically

According to the planar views

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

Lettering guides

Triangles

Circle templates

Technical pens

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

None of these

Center lines

Plane

Hidden lines

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

Dimension line

Centerline

Arrowhead line

Extension line

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

Closed relays

Transmission diagrams

Terminal circles

Operating relays

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

Parallel

Perspective

Orthographic

Oblique

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

Technical illustrator

Drafter

Artist

Construction superintendent

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

Phantom

Center

Hidden

Object

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

45 degree triangle

All of these

Parallel straight edge

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

Drafting

Engineering Graphics

All of these

Engineering Drawing

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

Inside

Outside

Isoplane

Radial

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

Radial

Angle

Aligned

Linear

40. 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

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

Construction lines

Reference lines

Object lines

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

CAD trainee

Checker

Receptionist

Client

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

Cone

Torus

Ellipsoid

Cylinder

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

LMC

Actual size

MMC

Smallest

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

Plotted circuit

Transmission circuit

Integrated circuit

Conducted circuit

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

Piping drafters

Aerospace engineers

Mechanical engineers

All of these

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