Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

Radius

Diameter

Arc Radius

Arc Length

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

Drafting

Engineering Graphics

All of these

Engineering Drawing

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

Extension line

Dimension line

Centerline

Arrowhead line

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

Architectural

Civil

Process piping

Mechanical

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

Help the client select a color for their carpet

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

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

Inside

Outside

Radial

Isoplane

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

Vertex

Oblique

Edge

Line

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

Profile

Horizontal

Base

Frontal

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

Civil

Mechanical

Architectural

Electrical

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

Parallel

Orthographic

Oblique

Foreshortened

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

None of these

Hidden lines

Plane

Center lines

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

Horizontally

Parallel to the frontal plane

Vertically

According to the planar views

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

Specification

Allowance

Tolerance

Difference

14. 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 eliminate hidden lines

To show cylinders as ellipses

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

45 or 60 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

30 or 45 degrees

16. 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 top to bottom

Right to left and bottom to top

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.

1.906

14.6844

5.958

4.7625

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

Linear

Radial

Angle

Aligned

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

Plotted circuit

Conducted circuit

Integrated circuit

Transmission circuit

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

360

310

270

180

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

Specification

Leader

Dimension line

Extension line

22. 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" = 100'

1/8" = 1'-0"

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

Tolerance

Datum

Angular

Sheet metal

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

Cone

Ellipsoid

Torus

Cylinder

25. 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 yard or over

One inch or over

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

Top view

Front view

Right side view

All of these

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

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

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

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

Closed relays

Transmission diagrams

Terminal circles

Operating relays

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

Switches

Signal relays

Amplifier tubes

Electron tubes

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

Reference lines

Construction lines

Object lines

Construction lines

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

Prism

Cone

Torus

Pyramid

32. 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

Horizontal

Auxiliary

33. 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

34. 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

Continue

Baseline

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

Angle dimension

Baseline dimension

Linear dimension

Aligned dimension

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

Technical illustrator

Drafter

Artist

Construction superintendent

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

45 degree triangle

All of these

45 degree triangle

Parallel straight edge

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

Warped solid

Extruded solid

Revolved solid

Planar solid

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

Mechanical engineers

All of these

Aerospace engineers

Piping drafters

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

Oblique

Parallel

Orthographic

Perspective

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

Actual size

MMC

Smallest

LMC

42. 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 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

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

Foreshortened

As an oblique surface

As a line or edge

True size

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

Client

CAD trainee

Checker

Receptionist

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

None of these

Architect's

Metric

Engineer's

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

Hidden

Object

Phantom

Center

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