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 ________.

Smallest

MMC

LMC

Actual size

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

Radial

Inside

Isoplane

Outside

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

Conducted circuit

Transmission circuit

Plotted circuit

Integrated circuit

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

Linear dimension

Aligned dimension

Angle dimension

Baseline dimension

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

Orthographic

Horizontal

Planar

Auxiliary

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

Civil

Architectural

Electrical

Mechanical

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

Closed relays

Terminal circles

Operating relays

Transmission diagrams

8. 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

5.958

4.7625

1.906

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

Cylinder

Torus

Ellipsoid

Cone

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

Front view

Right side view

Top view

All of these

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11. 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

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

To locate center marks

To show cylinders as ellipses

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

To eliminate hidden lines

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

Checker

Client

Receptionist

CAD trainee

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

180

270

310

360

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

Continue

Baseline

Quick Dimension

Linear

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

All of these

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

17. 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 Tolerance 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 Break tool to clean up the extension lines

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

Plane

Hidden lines

None of these

Center lines

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

Foreshortened

True size

As an oblique surface

As a line or edge

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

Dimension line

Arrowhead line

Extension line

Centerline

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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 yard or over

One foot or over

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

Radial

Aligned

Linear

Angle

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

Amplifier tubes

Signal relays

Switches

Electron tubes

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

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

Determine the quantity of brick needed to build the house

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

Process piping

Civil

Mechanical

Architectural

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

Line

Vertex

Edge

Oblique

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

Engineering Drawing

All of these

Drafting

Engineering Graphics

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

Dimension line

Leader

Specification

Extension line

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

Vertically

According to the planar views

Parallel to the frontal plane

Horizontally

30. 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

Technical pens

Circle templates

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31. 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

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

Perspective

Parallel

Oblique

Orthographic

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

Tolerance

Allowance

Difference

Specification

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

All of these

Piping drafters

Mechanical engineers

Aerospace engineers

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

Angular

Datum

Tolerance

Sheet metal

36. 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

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

1" = 100'

3/4" = 1'-0"

1/4" = 1'-0"

1/8" = 1'-0"

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

Foreshortened

Oblique

Parallel

Orthographic

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

Horizontal

Frontal

Profile

Base

40. 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

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

Construction lines

Reference lines

Object lines

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

Cone

Torus

Pyramid

Prism

43. 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 top to bottom

Right to left and bottom to top

Left to right and top to bottom

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

Warped solid

Planar solid

Revolved solid

Extruded solid

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

Diameter

Radius

Arc Length

Arc Radius

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

Phantom

Hidden

Center

Object

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