Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

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 understand the overall design concept

Help the client select a color for their carpet

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

Transmission diagrams

Terminal circles

Operating relays

Closed relays

3. 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

4.7625

5.958

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

Checker

Receptionist

CAD trainee

Client

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

Actual size

LMC

MMC

Smallest

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

270

360

180

310

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

Aligned

Radial

Angle

Linear

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

Vertex

Edge

Oblique

Line

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

Center lines

None of these

Plane

Hidden lines

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

Horizontally

Parallel to the frontal plane

According to the planar views

Vertically

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

Perspective

Parallel

Orthographic

Oblique

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

Electrical

Civil

Mechanical

Architectural

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

Tolerance

Specification

Allowance

Difference

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

Dimension line

Arrowhead line

Centerline

Extension line

15. 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

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

Circle templates

Lettering guides

Triangles

Technical pens

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

Mechanical engineers

All of these

Piping drafters

Aerospace engineers

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

Revolved solid

Warped solid

Planar solid

Extruded solid

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

25 or 30 degrees

30 or 45 degrees

45 or 60 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

20. 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 inch or over

One foot or over

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

Datum

Angular

Tolerance

Sheet metal

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

Foreshortened

Parallel

Orthographic

Oblique

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

1" = 100'

1/8" = 1'-0"

3/4" = 1'-0"

1/4" = 1'-0"

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

Mechanical

Architectural

Process piping

Civil

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

Drafter

Technical illustrator

Construction superintendent

Artist

26. 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

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

Transmission circuit

Conducted circuit

Plotted circuit

Integrated circuit

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

Object lines

Construction lines

Reference lines

Construction lines

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

Specification

Leader

Extension line

Dimension line

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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:

Torus

Cylinder

Cone

Ellipsoid

32. 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 bottom to top

Left to right and top to bottom

Right to left and bottom to top

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

Baseline dimension

Aligned dimension

Angle dimension

Linear dimension

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

Engineer's

None of these

Architect's

Metric

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

Base

Horizontal

Profile

Frontal

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

To eliminate hidden lines

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

To locate center marks

To show cylinders as ellipses

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

Foreshortened

As a line or edge

True size

As an oblique surface

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

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

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

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

Prism

Cone

Torus

Pyramid

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

All of these

Engineering Graphics

Drafting

Engineering Drawing

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

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

All of these

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

Right side view

All of these

Top view

Front view

43. 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

Quick Dimension

Linear

Baseline

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

Arc Radius

Diameter

Radius

Arc Length

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

Outside

Radial

Inside

Isoplane

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

Switches

Electron tubes

Signal relays

Amplifier tubes

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