Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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1. 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

2. 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

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

Process piping

Mechanical

Civil

Architectural

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

Object

Center

Phantom

Hidden

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

Aerospace engineers

Piping drafters

Mechanical engineers

All of these

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

MMC

Actual size

LMC

Smallest

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

None of these

Plane

Center lines

Hidden lines

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

Arc Length

Radius

Diameter

Arc Radius

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

Oblique

Vertex

Line

Edge

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

Conducted circuit

Plotted circuit

Transmission circuit

Integrated circuit

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

Dimension line

Extension line

Leader

Specification

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

15 or 30 degrees

45 or 60 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

30 or 45 degrees

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

Orthographic

Parallel

Perspective

Oblique

14. 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

15. 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'

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

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

All of these

17. 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

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

To locate center marks

To show cylinders as ellipses

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

To eliminate hidden lines

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

Aligned

Linear

Angle

Radial

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

True size

Foreshortened

As an oblique surface

As a line or edge

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

Profile

Frontal

Horizontal

Base

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

None of these

Metric

Architect's

Engineer's

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

Cone

Pyramid

Torus

Prism

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

Angular

Tolerance

Datum

Sheet metal

25. 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

Determine the quantity of brick needed to build the house

Help the client select a color for their carpet

Help the client understand the overall design concept

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

Horizontally

Vertically

According to the planar views

Parallel to the frontal plane

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

Electrical

Mechanical

Civil

Architectural

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

Outside

Inside

Radial

Isoplane

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

Front view

Right side view

Top view

All of these

30. 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 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

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

CAD trainee

Receptionist

Checker

Client

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

Centerline

Arrowhead line

Extension line

Dimension line

33. 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 bottom to top

Left to right and top to bottom

Right to left and top to bottom

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

Construction lines

Reference lines

Object lines

Construction lines

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

Planar

Orthographic

Horizontal

Auxiliary

36. 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

Tolerance

Difference

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

180

270

360

310

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

Aligned dimension

Linear dimension

Angle dimension

Baseline dimension

39. 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

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

Transmission diagrams

Closed relays

Terminal circles

Operating relays

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41. 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

1.906

5.958

14.6844

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

Engineering Graphics

Drafting

Engineering Drawing

All of these

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

Torus

Cone

Cylinder

Ellipsoid

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

Electron tubes

Amplifier tubes

Signal relays

Switches

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

One foot or over

One yard or over

One inch or over

One rod or over

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

Revolved solid

Planar solid

Warped solid

Extruded solid

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