Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

Closed relays

Operating relays

Terminal circles

Transmission diagrams

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

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

All of these

45 degree triangle

3. 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"

4. The ____________ tool on the Dimension tool bar will place several dimensions at one time by using a selection box placed over several part features.

Continue

Baseline

Linear

Quick Dimension

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

Torus

Ellipsoid

Cone

Cylinder

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

Technical pens

Circle templates

Lettering guides

Triangles

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

Architectural

Process piping

Mechanical

Civil

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

Smallest

LMC

MMC

Actual size

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

Torus

Cone

Prism

Pyramid

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

Arrowhead line

Centerline

Extension line

Dimension line

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

Inside

Isoplane

Outside

Radial

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

Arc Radius

Arc Length

Radius

Diameter

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

All of these

Top view

Front view

Right side view

14. 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

Tolerance

Specification

15. 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

16. 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

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

Vertex

Line

Oblique

Edge

18. 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 select a color for their carpet

Determine the quantity of brick needed to build the house

Help the client understand the overall design concept

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

To show cylinders as ellipses

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

To locate center marks

To eliminate hidden lines

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

25 or 30 degrees

45 or 60 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

30 or 45 degrees

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

Perspective

Oblique

Orthographic

Parallel

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

Phantom

Hidden

Center

Object

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

180

270

310

360

24. 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 Break 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 Modify tool to clean up the extension lines

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

Specification

Dimension line

Leader

Extension line

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

Base

Frontal

Horizontal

Profile

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

Foreshortened

Orthographic

Oblique

Parallel

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

One foot or over

One yard or over

One rod or over

One inch 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:

Orthographic

Planar

Auxiliary

Horizontal

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

Reference lines

Construction lines

Object lines

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

Checker

CAD trainee

Client

Receptionist

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

As a line or edge

True size

As an oblique surface

Foreshortened

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

Engineering Drawing

All of these

Engineering Graphics

Drafting

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

Revolved solid

Planar solid

Warped solid

Extruded solid

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

According to the planar views

Parallel to the frontal plane

Vertically

Horizontally

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

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

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

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

Sheet metal

Tolerance

Angular

Datum

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

Linear dimension

Aligned dimension

Baseline dimension

Angle dimension

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

4.7625

5.958

1.906

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

Piping drafters

Mechanical engineers

All of these

Aerospace engineers

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

Artist

Drafter

Construction superintendent

Technical illustrator

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

Transmission circuit

Plotted circuit

Conducted circuit

Integrated circuit

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

Architectural

Civil

Electrical

Mechanical

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

Engineer's

Architect's

None of these

Metric

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

Aligned

Linear

Angle

Radial

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