Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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1. 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 locate center marks

To show cylinders as ellipses

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

Centerline

Dimension line

Arrowhead line

Extension line

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

Parallel

Orthographic

Perspective

Oblique

4. 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

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

Isoplane

Radial

Outside

Inside

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

Conducted circuit

Transmission circuit

Plotted circuit

Integrated circuit

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

Radius

Diameter

Arc Radius

Arc Length

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.

Linear

Quick Dimension

Baseline

Continue

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

Object

Phantom

Hidden

Center

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

One rod or over

One foot or over

One inch or over

One yard or over

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

Piping drafters

Aerospace engineers

All of these

Mechanical engineers

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

Architect's

None of these

Metric

Engineer's

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

CAD trainee

Checker

Receptionist

Client

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

Front view

Right side view

Top view

All of these

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

MMC

Smallest

LMC

Actual size

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

Cylinder

Ellipsoid

Torus

Cone

17. 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'

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

True size

Foreshortened

As an oblique surface

As a line or edge

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

Difference

Allowance

Tolerance

Specification

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

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

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

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

Frontal

Base

Profile

Horizontal

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

Closed relays

Terminal circles

Transmission diagrams

Operating relays

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

Parallel

Oblique

Foreshortened

Orthographic

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

Civil

Architectural

Mechanical

Electrical

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

Radial

Angle

Aligned

Linear

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

Artist

Construction superintendent

Drafter

Technical illustrator

27. 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

5.958

14.6844

4.7625

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

Planar

Orthographic

Auxiliary

Horizontal

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

Construction lines

Object lines

Reference lines

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

Prism

Pyramid

Torus

Cone

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31. 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

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

30 or 45 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

45 or 60 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

33. 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

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

Specification

Leader

Extension line

Dimension line

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

310

270

360

180

36. 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 Tolerance tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the stretch tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Break tool to clean up the extension lines

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

Tolerance

Sheet metal

Angular

Datum

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

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

All of these

45 degree triangle

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

Mechanical

Architectural

Civil

Process piping

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

Engineering Graphics

All of these

Engineering Drawing

Drafting

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

Amplifier tubes

Switches

Electron tubes

Signal relays

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

Parallel to the frontal plane

Vertically

According to the planar views

Horizontally

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

Line

Oblique

Vertex

Edge

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

Warped solid

Extruded solid

Revolved solid

Planar solid

45. 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

Left to right and bottom to top

Right to left and bottom to top

Right to left and top to bottom

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

Baseline dimension

Aligned dimension

Linear dimension

Angle dimension

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