Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

Hidden

Phantom

Object

Center

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

Arc Length

Arc Radius

Radius

Diameter

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

45 degree triangle

All of these

Parallel straight edge

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

To eliminate hidden lines

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

To show cylinders as ellipses

To locate center marks

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

Architect's

Metric

Engineer's

None of these

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

Warped solid

Planar solid

Revolved solid

Extruded solid

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

Inside

Isoplane

Radial

Outside

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

Edge

Vertex

Oblique

Line

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

Angle dimension

Linear dimension

Baseline dimension

Aligned dimension

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

180

360

310

270

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

Signal relays

Electron tubes

Switches

Amplifier tubes

12. 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 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

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

Smallest

Actual size

LMC

MMC

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

Aligned

Radial

Linear

Angle

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

25 or 30 degrees

45 or 60 degrees

30 or 45 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

16. 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" = 100'

1/8" = 1'-0"

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

Technical illustrator

Artist

Drafter

Construction superintendent

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

Orthographic

Perspective

Parallel

Oblique

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

Sheet metal

Datum

Angular

Tolerance

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

Vertically

Horizontally

According to the planar views

Parallel to the frontal plane

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

Architectural

Civil

Electrical

Mechanical

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

Engineering Graphics

Engineering Drawing

All of these

Drafting

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

Center lines

Plane

None of these

Hidden lines

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

Profile

Frontal

Horizontal

Base

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

Top view

All of these

Front view

Right side view

26. 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 bottom to top

Left to right and bottom to top

Left to right and top to bottom

Right to left and top to bottom

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

Construction lines

Reference lines

Construction lines

Object lines

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

One inch or over

One foot or over

One yard or over

One rod or over

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

Horizontal

Planar

Auxiliary

Orthographic

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

Architectural

Civil

Process piping

Mechanical

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31. 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

Difference

Tolerance

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

Terminal circles

Operating relays

Closed relays

Transmission diagrams

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

Ellipsoid

Cylinder

Torus

Cone

34. 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

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

Triangles

Circle templates

Technical pens

Lettering guides

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

True size

Foreshortened

As an oblique surface

As a line or edge

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

Orthographic

Foreshortened

Oblique

Parallel

38. 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

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

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

Transmission circuit

Integrated circuit

Conducted circuit

Plotted circuit

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

All of these

Aerospace engineers

Mechanical engineers

Piping drafters

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

Cone

Prism

Torus

Pyramid

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

Help the client select a color for their carpet

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 understand the overall design concept

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

Receptionist

CAD trainee

Client

Checker

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

Extension line

Centerline

Dimension line

Arrowhead line

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

Extension line

Dimension line

Leader

Specification

46. 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.

5.958

4.7625

14.6844

1.906

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