Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

Vertex

Line

Oblique

Edge

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

Specification

Dimension line

Extension line

Leader

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

MMC

Smallest

Actual size

LMC

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

Planar solid

Extruded solid

Revolved solid

Warped solid

5. 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

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

Plane

Hidden lines

Center lines

None of these

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

Architectural

Mechanical

Civil

Electrical

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.

Quick Dimension

Continue

Baseline

Linear

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

All of these

Top view

Front view

Right side view

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

Angle dimension

Baseline dimension

Linear dimension

Aligned dimension

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

Vertically

Horizontally

Parallel to the frontal plane

According to the planar views

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

1/8" = 1'-0"

1/4" = 1'-0"

1" = 100'

3/4" = 1'-0"

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

Electron tubes

Switches

Amplifier tubes

Signal relays

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

Circle templates

Triangles

Technical pens

Lettering guides

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

Outside

Inside

Isoplane

Radial

17. 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

5.958

1.906

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

Perspective

Parallel

Oblique

Orthographic

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

Arc Radius

Arc Length

Radius

Diameter

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

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

All of these

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

None of these

Engineer's

Metric

Architect's

22. 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 stretch 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

23. 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

Planar

Auxiliary

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

Prism

Cone

Pyramid

Torus

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

Tolerance

Datum

Sheet metal

Angular

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

Oblique

Parallel

Orthographic

Foreshortened

27. 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

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

All of these

Drafting

Engineering Graphics

Engineering Drawing

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

Closed relays

Operating relays

Transmission diagrams

Terminal circles

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

To show cylinders as ellipses

To eliminate hidden lines

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

To locate center marks

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

Transmission circuit

Integrated circuit

Conducted circuit

Plotted circuit

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

Profile

Base

Horizontal

Frontal

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

Drafter

Construction superintendent

Artist

Technical illustrator

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

Aerospace engineers

All of these

Piping drafters

Mechanical engineers

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

Client

Receptionist

CAD trainee

Checker

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

180

270

360

310

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

Torus

Ellipsoid

Cylinder

Cone

38. 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 rod or over

One yard or over

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

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

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

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

Aligned

Linear

Angle

Radial

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

As an oblique surface

As a line or edge

True size

Foreshortened

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

Construction lines

Reference lines

Object lines

Construction lines

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

Mechanical

Process piping

Architectural

Civil

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

Center

Hidden

Phantom

Object

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

Dimension line

Extension line

Centerline

Arrowhead line

46. 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

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