Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

Engineering Drawing

Engineering Graphics

All of these

Drafting

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

Parallel

Oblique

Orthographic

Perspective

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

CAD trainee

Checker

Receptionist

Client

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

Sheet metal

Datum

Angular

Tolerance

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

Line

Oblique

Edge

Vertex

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

Center

Phantom

Object

Hidden

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

Circle templates

Lettering guides

Technical pens

Triangles

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

270

310

360

180

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

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

Help the client select a color for their carpet

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

Extension line

Dimension line

Arrowhead line

Centerline

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

Angle dimension

Linear dimension

Aligned dimension

Baseline dimension

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

According to the planar views

Vertically

Parallel to the frontal plane

Horizontally

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

MMC

Actual size

Smallest

LMC

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

Radial

Outside

Inside

Isoplane

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

Right side view

All of these

Front view

Top view

16. 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

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

Arc Length

Diameter

Radius

Arc Radius

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

Extruded solid

Revolved solid

Warped solid

Planar solid

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

1/8" = 1'-0"

1/4" = 1'-0"

1" = 100'

3/4" = 1'-0"

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

Construction lines

Reference lines

Object lines

Construction lines

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

One rod or over

One inch or over

One foot or over

One yard or over

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

Cone

Prism

Torus

Pyramid

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

Angle

Aligned

Linear

Radial

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 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

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

Engineer's

Metric

Architect's

None of these

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

Horizontal

Frontal

Profile

Base

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

Mechanical

Architectural

Process piping

Civil

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

Terminal circles

Operating relays

Transmission diagrams

Closed relays

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

Conducted circuit

Plotted circuit

Integrated circuit

Transmission circuit

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

As a line or edge

True size

Foreshortened

As an oblique surface

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

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

All of these

45 degree triangle

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

Mechanical

Civil

Architectural

Electrical

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

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

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

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

15 or 30 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

45 or 60 degrees

30 or 45 degrees

35. 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

Right to left and top to bottom

Left to right and bottom to top

Right to left and bottom to top

36. 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

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

Construction superintendent

Artist

Technical illustrator

Drafter

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. 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

1.906

4.7625

5.958

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

Planar

Horizontal

Orthographic

Auxiliary

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

Ellipsoid

Cone

Cylinder

Torus

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

Piping drafters

All of these

Mechanical engineers

Aerospace engineers

43. 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

Quick Dimension

Continue

44. 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

45. 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

46. 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

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