Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

Mechanical

Architectural

Civil

Electrical

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

1/8" = 1'-0"

1" = 100'

3/4" = 1'-0"

1/4" = 1'-0"

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

Actual size

LMC

Smallest

MMC

4. 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

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

Technical illustrator

Construction superintendent

Artist

Drafter

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

Front view

All of these

Top view

Right side view

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

CAD trainee

Receptionist

Client

Checker

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

Hidden

Object

Phantom

Center

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

Dimension line

Centerline

Extension line

Arrowhead line

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

45 degree triangle

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

All of these

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

True size

As a line or edge

Foreshortened

As an oblique surface

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

Tolerance

Difference

Specification

Allowance

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

270

180

360

310

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

Frontal

Horizontal

Profile

Base

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

Angle dimension

Baseline dimension

Linear dimension

Aligned dimension

16. 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

17. 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.

14.6844

4.7625

1.906

5.958

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

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

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

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

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

Foreshortened

Parallel

Oblique

Orthographic

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

Amplifier tubes

Electron tubes

Switches

Signal relays

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

Lettering guides

Technical pens

Triangles

Circle templates

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

Help the client understand the overall design concept

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

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

Reference lines

Object lines

Construction lines

24. 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 Tolerance tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the stretch tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Break tool to clean up the extension lines

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

Inside

Isoplane

Radial

Outside

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

Integrated circuit

Conducted circuit

Plotted circuit

Transmission circuit

27. The ____________ tool on the Dimension tool bar will place several dimensions at one time by using a selection box placed over several part features.

Quick Dimension

Linear

Baseline

Continue

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

Oblique

Parallel

Perspective

Orthographic

29. 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

Left to right and top to bottom

Right to left and bottom to top

Right to left and top to bottom

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

Piping drafters

All of these

Aerospace engineers

Mechanical engineers

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

Engineering Graphics

Drafting

Engineering Drawing

All of these

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

Radial

Angle

Linear

Aligned

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

Auxiliary

Planar

Horizontal

Orthographic

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

Datum

Angular

Tolerance

Sheet metal

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

Center lines

None of these

Plane

Hidden lines

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

Vertex

Oblique

Line

Edge

37. 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

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

Arc Radius

Radius

Diameter

Arc Length

39. 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 locate center marks

To show cylinders as ellipses

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

Prism

Pyramid

Cone

Torus

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

Engineer's

Architect's

Metric

None of these

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

According to the planar views

Horizontally

Vertically

Parallel to the frontal plane

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

Civil

Mechanical

Process piping

Architectural

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

Terminal circles

Transmission diagrams

Closed relays

Operating relays

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

Revolved solid

Warped solid

Planar solid

Extruded solid

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

Ellipsoid

Torus

Cylinder

Cone

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