Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

May 27, 2021

Show paginator

Hide paginator

20%

Page 1 of 5

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

Ellipsoid

Cylinder

Torus

Cone

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

Engineering Graphics

Engineering Drawing

Drafting

All of these

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

Foreshortened

Oblique

Orthographic

Parallel

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

Angle dimension

Linear dimension

Baseline dimension

Aligned dimension

5. 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

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

True size

As an oblique surface

As a line or edge

Foreshortened

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

Object lines

Construction lines

Reference lines

Construction lines

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

Specification

Allowance

Tolerance

Difference

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

180

270

310

360

10. 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

Quick Dimension

Linear

Continue

Page 2 of 5

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

To locate center marks

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

To show cylinders as ellipses

To eliminate hidden lines

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

Isoplane

Radial

Outside

Inside

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

Warped solid

Extruded solid

Planar solid

Revolved solid

14. 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

14.6844

5.958

4.7625

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

45 or 60 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

30 or 45 degrees

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

Extension line

Dimension line

Specification

Leader

17. 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 top to bottom

Left to right and bottom to top

Right to left and bottom to top

Right to left and top to bottom

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

Receptionist

Client

CAD trainee

Checker

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

Operating relays

Transmission diagrams

Terminal circles

Closed relays

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

Actual size

LMC

MMC

Smallest

Page 3 of 5

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

Mechanical

Architectural

Civil

Process piping

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

One rod or over

One foot or over

One yard or over

One inch or over

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

Linear

Radial

Aligned

Angle

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

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

All of these

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

Vertically

Parallel to the frontal plane

Horizontally

According to the planar views

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

Center

Object

Phantom

Hidden

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

Architect's

None of these

Metric

Engineer's

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

Right side view

Front view

Top view

All of these

29. 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 stretch tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Tolerance tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Break tool to clean up the extension lines

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

Edge

Oblique

Line

Vertex

Page 4 of 5

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

Pyramid

Prism

Torus

Cone

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

Dimension line

Arrowhead line

Extension line

Centerline

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

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

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

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

34. 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

35. 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

Auxiliary

Planar

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

Profile

Base

Horizontal

Frontal

37. 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

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

Amplifier tubes

Switches

Electron tubes

Signal relays

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

Sheet metal

Tolerance

Angular

Datum

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

1/8" = 1'-0"

1" = 100'

1/4" = 1'-0"

3/4" = 1'-0"

Page 5 of 5

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

All of these

Piping drafters

Aerospace engineers

Mechanical engineers

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

Arc Length

Arc Radius

Diameter

Radius

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

Orthographic

Perspective

Parallel

Oblique

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

Electrical

Civil

Mechanical

Architectural

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

Plotted circuit

Conducted circuit

Transmission circuit

Integrated circuit

46. 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

Hidden lines

Center lines

Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

Related

1 Response

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Secured Payments

Protection

Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

Share this Now with Friends:

Related

1 Response

Leave a ReplyCancel reply

Secured Payments

Protection