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.

Diameter

Arc Radius

Radius

Arc Length

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

Cone

Torus

Pyramid

Prism

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

Client

Checker

Receptionist

CAD trainee

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

Outside

Inside

Radial

Isoplane

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

Center lines

Hidden lines

None of these

Plane

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

Cone

Torus

Ellipsoid

Cylinder

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

Process piping

Mechanical

Civil

Architectural

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

True size

As an oblique surface

Foreshortened

As a line or edge

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

Oblique

Line

Vertex

Edge

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

Extension line

Centerline

Arrowhead line

Dimension line

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

Electrical

Architectural

Mechanical

Civil

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

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

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

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

Lettering guides

Circle templates

Triangles

Technical pens

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

Help the client understand the overall design concept

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 select a color for their carpet

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

Architect's

None of these

Engineer's

Metric

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

Angle

Linear

Radial

Aligned

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

Smallest

LMC

Actual size

MMC

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

Transmission diagrams

Terminal circles

Closed relays

Operating relays

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

Engineering Drawing

Engineering Graphics

Drafting

All of these

20. 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

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21. 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

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

Revolved solid

Planar solid

Warped solid

Extruded solid

23. 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

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

45 degree triangle

All of these

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

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

Sheet metal

Datum

Angular

Tolerance

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

Piping drafters

Aerospace engineers

All of these

Mechanical engineers

27. 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

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

Front view

All of these

Right side view

Top view

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

3/4" = 1'-0"

1" = 100'

1/8" = 1'-0"

1/4" = 1'-0"

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

Plotted circuit

Integrated circuit

Transmission circuit

Conducted circuit

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

Auxiliary

Planar

Horizontal

Orthographic

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

270

180

310

360

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

Perspective

Oblique

Orthographic

Parallel

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

Electron tubes

Switches

Signal relays

Amplifier tubes

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

45 or 60 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

30 or 45 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

36. 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.

4.7625

14.6844

1.906

5.958

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

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

To eliminate hidden lines

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

Allowance

Difference

Specification

Tolerance

39. 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

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

One rod or over

One yard or over

One inch or over

One foot or over

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

Horizontally

Parallel to the frontal plane

According to the planar views

Vertically

42. 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 Break 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

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

Reference lines

Object lines

Construction lines

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

Aligned dimension

Baseline dimension

Angle dimension

Linear dimension

45. 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

Right to left and top to bottom

Left to right and top to bottom

Left to right and bottom to top

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

Base

Frontal

Profile

Horizontal

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