Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

Linear dimension

Baseline dimension

Aligned dimension

Angle dimension

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

All of these

Top view

Front view

Right side view

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

Metric

None of these

Engineer's

Architect's

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

Torus

Cylinder

Cone

Ellipsoid

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

Terminal circles

Operating relays

Transmission diagrams

Closed relays

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

Process piping

Mechanical

Architectural

Civil

7. 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

5.958

1.906

4.7625

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

All of these

Aerospace engineers

Piping drafters

Mechanical engineers

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

Drafting

All of these

Engineering Graphics

Engineering Drawing

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

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

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

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

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

Mechanical

Electrical

Civil

Architectural

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

Isoplane

Inside

Outside

Radial

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

3/4" = 1'-0"

1/4" = 1'-0"

1" = 100'

1/8" = 1'-0"

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

Electron tubes

Signal relays

Switches

Amplifier tubes

15. 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 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

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

Arc Radius

Radius

Diameter

Arc Length

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

To eliminate hidden lines

To show cylinders as ellipses

To locate center marks

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

18. 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 top to bottom

Right to left and bottom to top

Left to right and top to bottom

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

Reference lines

Object lines

Construction lines

20. 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

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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:

Extension line

Dimension line

Leader

Specification

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

Oblique

Line

Vertex

Edge

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

Sheet metal

Tolerance

Datum

Angular

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

Aligned

Linear

Radial

Angle

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

Checker

Receptionist

CAD trainee

Client

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

As an oblique surface

Foreshortened

As a line or edge

True size

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

Auxiliary

Horizontal

Orthographic

Planar

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

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

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

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

Dimension line

Centerline

Arrowhead line

Extension line

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

Foreshortened

Orthographic

Parallel

Oblique

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

All of these

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

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

Construction superintendent

Technical illustrator

Artist

Drafter

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

Perspective

Orthographic

Parallel

Oblique

34. 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

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

Plotted circuit

Integrated circuit

Conducted circuit

Transmission circuit

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

Profile

Horizontal

Frontal

Base

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

LMC

MMC

Actual size

Smallest

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

Revolved solid

Extruded solid

Planar solid

Warped solid

39. 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

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

Baseline

Continue

Quick Dimension

Linear

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

Parallel to the frontal plane

Vertically

According to the planar views

Horizontally

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

Cone

Torus

Pyramid

Prism

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

Center

Hidden

Object

Phantom

44. 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 yard or over

One rod or over

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

30 or 45 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

45 or 60 degrees

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

270

360

310

180

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