Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

Base

Profile

Horizontal

Frontal

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

Transmission diagrams

Terminal circles

Operating relays

Closed relays

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

Horizontal

Orthographic

Auxiliary

Planar

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

Angular

Sheet metal

Tolerance

Datum

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

Plane

Center lines

Hidden lines

None of these

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

One foot or over

One inch or over

One rod or over

One yard or over

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

45 degree triangle

All of these

45 degree triangle

Parallel straight edge

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

Engineer's

None of these

Architect's

Metric

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

Tolerance

Specification

Difference

Allowance

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

Radius

Arc Radius

Arc Length

Diameter

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

Planar solid

Extruded solid

Revolved solid

Warped solid

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

Amplifier tubes

Switches

Electron tubes

Signal relays

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

LMC

Smallest

Actual size

MMC

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

Torus

Prism

Cone

Pyramid

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

Hidden

Phantom

Center

Object

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

According to the planar views

Parallel to the frontal plane

Horizontally

Vertically

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

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

Rotate the snap grid to the same angle of the inclined plane

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

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

Extension line

Leader

Dimension line

Specification

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

Baseline dimension

Aligned dimension

Linear dimension

Angle dimension

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

Radial

Isoplane

Inside

Outside

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

Architectural

Electrical

Mechanical

Civil

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

Checker

CAD trainee

Client

Receptionist

23. 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

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

Oblique

Foreshortened

Parallel

Orthographic

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

True size

As a line or edge

As an oblique surface

Foreshortened

26. 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

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

Aligned

Linear

Radial

Angle

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

Construction superintendent

Artist

Technical illustrator

Drafter

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

15 or 30 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

30 or 45 degrees

45 or 60 degrees

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

1/4" = 1'-0"

1/8" = 1'-0"

1" = 100'

3/4" = 1'-0"

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

Cone

Torus

Ellipsoid

Cylinder

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

Reference lines

Object lines

Construction lines

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

Engineering Drawing

All of these

Engineering Graphics

Drafting

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

Provide the client with a model which they can use to impress their friends

Help the client understand the overall design concept

Help the client select a color for their carpet

Determine the quantity of brick needed to build the house

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

Transmission circuit

Integrated circuit

Plotted circuit

Conducted circuit

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

310

180

360

270

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

Top view

Front view

Right side view

All of these

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

Arrowhead line

Extension line

Dimension line

Centerline

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

Triangles

Technical pens

Circle templates

Lettering guides

40. 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

1.906

5.958

4.7625

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

All of these

Mechanical engineers

Aerospace engineers

Piping drafters

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

Edge

Vertex

Oblique

Line

43. 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

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

Civil

Process piping

Mechanical

Architectural

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 bottom to top

Right to left and bottom to top

Left to right and top to bottom

Right to left and top to bottom

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

Orthographic

Oblique

Perspective

Parallel

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