Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

Orthographic

Parallel

Perspective

Oblique

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

Linear

Radial

Angle

Aligned

3. 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

4.7625

14.6844

5.958

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

Switches

Electron tubes

Signal relays

Amplifier tubes

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

Profile

Horizontal

Base

Frontal

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

Receptionist

Client

CAD trainee

Checker

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

Architect's

Metric

None of these

Engineer's

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

Horizontal

Orthographic

Planar

Auxiliary

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

Dimension line

Extension line

Centerline

Arrowhead line

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

Object lines

Reference lines

Construction lines

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

Extruded solid

Planar solid

Revolved solid

Warped solid

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

Oblique

Line

Edge

Vertex

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

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

All of these

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

Drafter

Technical illustrator

Construction superintendent

Artist

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

Horizontally

Vertically

According to the planar views

Parallel to the frontal plane

16. 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 Modify 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

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

One yard or over

One foot or over

One inch or over

One rod or over

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

Help the client select a color for their carpet

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

19. 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

Quick Dimension

Baseline

Linear

20. 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 snap grid to the same angle of the inclined plane

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

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

Engineering Graphics

Engineering Drawing

All of these

Drafting

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

30 or 45 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

45 or 60 degrees

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

Front view

Top view

Right side view

All of these

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

Conducted circuit

Plotted circuit

Transmission circuit

Integrated circuit

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

Radius

Arc Radius

Arc Length

Diameter

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

1/4" = 1'-0"

1/8" = 1'-0"

1" = 100'

3/4" = 1'-0"

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

As a line or edge

Foreshortened

As an oblique surface

True size

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

Electrical

Mechanical

Architectural

Civil

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

270

310

360

180

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

Hidden

Center

Phantom

Object

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

MMC

Actual size

LMC

Smallest

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

Closed relays

Operating relays

Transmission diagrams

Terminal circles

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

All of these

Aerospace engineers

Mechanical engineers

Piping drafters

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

Allowance

Tolerance

Specification

Difference

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

Orthographic

Parallel

Oblique

Foreshortened

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

Datum

Angular

Tolerance

Sheet metal

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

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

To locate center marks

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

Linear dimension

Angle dimension

Baseline dimension

Aligned dimension

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

Cone

Prism

Torus

Pyramid

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

Cylinder

Cone

Ellipsoid

Torus

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41. 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

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

Hidden lines

Center lines

Plane

None of these

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

Civil

Process piping

Mechanical

Architectural

44. 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

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

Lettering guides

Circle templates

Technical pens

Triangles

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

Isoplane

Outside

Radial

Inside

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