Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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1. 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

2. 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 Tolerance 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 stretch tool to clean up the extension lines

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

Closed relays

Terminal circles

Transmission diagrams

Operating relays

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

All of these

Right side view

Top view

Front view

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

Civil

Mechanical

Architectural

Process piping

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

Leader

Extension line

Dimension line

Specification

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

Plane

None of these

Center lines

Hidden lines

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

180

310

270

360

9. 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 right vertical line of the front view

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

10. 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

Continue

Baseline

Quick Dimension

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

Parallel to the frontal plane

According to the planar views

Vertically

Horizontally

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

Construction lines

Object lines

Reference lines

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

CAD trainee

Client

Receptionist

Checker

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

Drafter

Artist

Construction superintendent

Technical illustrator

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

Vertex

Line

Oblique

Edge

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

Left to right and top to bottom

Left to right and bottom to top

Right to left and top to bottom

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

Baseline dimension

Aligned dimension

Linear dimension

Angle dimension

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

Amplifier tubes

Signal relays

Electron tubes

Switches

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

Warped solid

Extruded solid

Revolved solid

Planar solid

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

Conducted circuit

Integrated circuit

Transmission circuit

Plotted circuit

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

As a line or edge

True size

Foreshortened

As an oblique surface

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

Smallest

LMC

MMC

Actual size

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

None of these

Metric

Engineer's

Architect's

24. 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 foot or over

One inch or over

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

Drafting

Engineering Drawing

Engineering Graphics

All of these

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

Electrical

Mechanical

Civil

Architectural

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.

5.958

1.906

14.6844

4.7625

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

All of these

Mechanical engineers

Piping drafters

Aerospace engineers

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

Object

Hidden

Center

Phantom

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

Arc Length

Radius

Arc Radius

Diameter

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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:

Cylinder

Torus

Ellipsoid

Cone

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

Extension line

Arrowhead line

Dimension line

Centerline

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

45 degree triangle

All of these

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

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

Orthographic

Perspective

Oblique

Parallel

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

Foreshortened

Oblique

Orthographic

Parallel

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

1" = 100'

3/4" = 1'-0"

1/8" = 1'-0"

1/4" = 1'-0"

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

Help the client select a color for their carpet

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

Determine the quantity of brick needed to build the house

Help the client understand the overall design concept

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

Radial

Aligned

Linear

Angle

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

Isoplane

Outside

Radial

Inside

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

Frontal

Base

Horizontal

Profile

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

Lettering guides

Technical pens

Circle templates

Triangles

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

Tolerance

Angular

Datum

Sheet metal

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

Cone

Prism

Pyramid

Torus

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

Difference

Specification

Allowance

Tolerance

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

Horizontal

Auxiliary

Orthographic

Planar

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

30 or 45 degrees

45 or 60 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

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