Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

Actual size

MMC

Smallest

LMC

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

Leader

Specification

Extension line

Dimension line

3. 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

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

Datum

Tolerance

Sheet metal

Angular

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

Outside

Isoplane

Radial

Inside

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

Radial

Aligned

Angle

Linear

7. 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

Help the client select a color for their carpet

Provide the client with a model which they can use to impress their friends

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

Metric

Architect's

None of these

Engineer's

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

Specification

Difference

Allowance

Tolerance

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

Horizontally

According to the planar views

Parallel to the frontal plane

Vertically

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11. 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

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

Oblique

Parallel

Perspective

Orthographic

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

Triangles

Lettering guides

Circle templates

Technical pens

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

CAD trainee

Client

Checker

Receptionist

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

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

All of these

45 degree triangle

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

Horizontal

Base

Profile

Frontal

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

Artist

Drafter

Construction superintendent

Technical illustrator

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.

Linear

Baseline

Continue

Quick Dimension

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

Process piping

Civil

Architectural

Mechanical

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

Linear dimension

Aligned dimension

Angle dimension

Baseline dimension

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

To show cylinders as ellipses

To locate center marks

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

To eliminate hidden lines

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

Mechanical engineers

Piping drafters

Aerospace engineers

All of these

23. 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

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

Operating relays

Terminal circles

Transmission diagrams

Closed relays

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

Dimension line

Extension line

Centerline

Arrowhead line

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

Edge

Vertex

Oblique

Line

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

Signal relays

Electron tubes

Switches

Amplifier tubes

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

Cone

Ellipsoid

Cylinder

Torus

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

Foreshortened

As a line or edge

True size

As an oblique surface

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

360

180

310

270

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

Cone

Prism

Pyramid

Torus

32. 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

33. 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

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

1" = 100'

1/4" = 1'-0"

1/8" = 1'-0"

3/4" = 1'-0"

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

45 or 60 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

30 or 45 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

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

Top view

Front view

All of these

Right side view

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

One rod or over

One yard or over

One inch or over

One foot or over

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

Plotted circuit

Conducted circuit

Transmission circuit

Integrated circuit

39. 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

40. 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 stretch tool to clean up the extension lines

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

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

Diameter

Radius

Arc Radius

Arc Length

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

Warped solid

Extruded solid

Revolved solid

Planar solid

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

Object lines

Reference lines

Construction lines

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

All of these

Engineering Drawing

Drafting

Engineering Graphics

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

Mechanical

Electrical

Civil

Architectural

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.

4.7625

14.6844

1.906

5.958

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