Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

Radius

Diameter

Arc Length

Arc Radius

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

Torus

Cylinder

Cone

Ellipsoid

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

Vertex

Oblique

Edge

Line

4. 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 Break 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

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

Sheet metal

Angular

Tolerance

Datum

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

Actual size

MMC

LMC

Smallest

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

Dimension line

Centerline

Extension line

Arrowhead line

8. 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

Continue

Baseline

Linear

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

Foreshortened

True size

As an oblique surface

As a line or edge

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

Warped solid

Revolved solid

Extruded solid

Planar solid

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

Construction lines

Object lines

Reference lines

Construction lines

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

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

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

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

Mechanical engineers

All of these

Aerospace engineers

Piping drafters

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

Electrical

Architectural

Civil

Mechanical

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

Checker

CAD trainee

Client

Receptionist

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

All of these

Top view

Right side view

Front view

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

Engineering Graphics

Drafting

Engineering Drawing

All of these

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

Transmission diagrams

Terminal circles

Operating relays

Closed relays

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

1/4" = 1'-0"

3/4" = 1'-0"

1/8" = 1'-0"

1" = 100'

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

Process piping

Architectural

Mechanical

Civil

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21. 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

4.7625

5.958

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

Artist

Construction superintendent

Technical illustrator

Drafter

23. 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

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

Conducted circuit

Transmission circuit

Integrated circuit

Plotted circuit

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

Horizontal

Base

Profile

Frontal

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

25 or 30 degrees

30 or 45 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

45 or 60 degrees

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

Oblique

Perspective

Parallel

Orthographic

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

Electron tubes

Signal relays

Amplifier tubes

Switches

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

Isoplane

Radial

Outside

Inside

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

270

360

310

180

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

Angle dimension

Aligned dimension

Linear dimension

Baseline dimension

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

None of these

Engineer's

Architect's

Metric

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

Center lines

Plane

Hidden lines

None of these

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

One yard or over

One inch or over

One foot or over

One rod or over

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

Determine the quantity of brick needed to build the house

Help the client understand the overall design concept

Help the client select a color for their carpet

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

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

To eliminate hidden lines

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

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

Orthographic

Auxiliary

Horizontal

Planar

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

Technical pens

Lettering guides

Triangles

Circle templates

39. 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

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

Torus

Prism

Cone

Pyramid

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

Angle

Radial

Linear

Aligned

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

Parallel to the frontal plane

Vertically

Horizontally

According to the planar views

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

Dimension line

Specification

Leader

Extension line

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

Phantom

Center

Hidden

Object

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

All of these

45 degree triangle

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

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

Difference

Specification

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