Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

Aligned

Radial

Angle

Linear

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

Closed relays

Transmission diagrams

Operating relays

Terminal circles

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

Smallest

Actual size

MMC

LMC

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

Switches

Amplifier tubes

Signal relays

Electron tubes

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

Ellipsoid

Cylinder

Cone

Torus

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

Civil

Electrical

Architectural

Mechanical

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

All of these

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

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

Technical illustrator

Construction superintendent

Drafter

Artist

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

Plotted circuit

Integrated circuit

Transmission circuit

Conducted circuit

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

Cone

Prism

Torus

Pyramid

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11. 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

12. Schematic and single-line diagrams should be arranged so that signal or transmission path from input to output proceeds in this fashion:

Right to left and top to bottom

Left to right and top to bottom

Left to right and bottom to top

Right to left and bottom to top

13. 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

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

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

Oblique

Line

Vertex

Edge

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

Perspective

Oblique

Orthographic

Parallel

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

Object lines

Reference lines

Construction lines

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

Outside

Inside

Radial

Isoplane

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

Horizontal

Auxiliary

Planar

Orthographic

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

Receptionist

CAD trainee

Client

Checker

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

Extension line

Specification

Leader

Dimension line

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

1/4" = 1'-0"

1" = 100'

3/4" = 1'-0"

1/8" = 1'-0"

22. 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

4.7625

5.958

1.906

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

Piping drafters

Aerospace engineers

All of these

Mechanical engineers

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

Foreshortened

As a line or edge

True size

As an oblique surface

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

Parallel

Foreshortened

Orthographic

Oblique

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

Top view

Front view

All of these

Right side view

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

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

Help the client understand the overall design concept

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

Revolved solid

Extruded solid

Warped solid

Planar solid

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

Sheet metal

Angular

Datum

Tolerance

30. 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

Baseline

Continue

Linear

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

Horizontally

According to the planar views

Parallel to the frontal plane

Vertically

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

Extension line

Arrowhead line

Centerline

Dimension line

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

Phantom

Center

Object

Hidden

34. 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

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

Arc Length

Radius

Diameter

Arc Radius

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

Base

Profile

Horizontal

Frontal

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

Aligned dimension

Baseline dimension

Angle dimension

Linear dimension

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

Architect's

Engineer's

Metric

None of these

40. 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

Hidden lines

Plane

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

All of these

Engineering Drawing

Engineering Graphics

Drafting

42. 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

43. 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 Modify 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

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

Process piping

Mechanical

Architectural

Civil

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

360

180

310

270

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

Technical pens

Triangles

Lettering guides

Circle templates

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