Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

Edge

Vertex

Oblique

Line

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

Inside

Isoplane

Outside

Radial

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

Auxiliary

Orthographic

Planar

Horizontal

4. 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

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

Planar solid

Extruded solid

Warped solid

Revolved solid

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

Aligned

Radial

Linear

Angle

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.

4.7625

5.958

1.906

14.6844

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

CAD trainee

Receptionist

Checker

Client

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

To eliminate hidden lines

To locate center marks

To show cylinders as ellipses

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

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

Engineering Drawing

All of these

Drafting

Engineering Graphics

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

As an oblique surface

True size

As a line or edge

Foreshortened

12. 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

Baseline

Linear

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

Arrowhead line

Extension line

Centerline

Dimension line

14. 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

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

45 degree triangle

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

All of these

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

Help the client understand the overall design concept

Determine the quantity of brick needed to build the house

Help the client select a color for their carpet

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

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

Piping drafters

Mechanical engineers

All of these

Aerospace engineers

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

1" = 100'

3/4" = 1'-0"

1/4" = 1'-0"

1/8" = 1'-0"

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

Right side view

Top view

All of these

Front view

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

30 or 45 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

45 or 60 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

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

Process piping

Mechanical

Civil

Architectural

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

Frontal

Horizontal

Base

Profile

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

Baseline dimension

Aligned dimension

Angle dimension

Linear dimension

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

Cylinder

Cone

Ellipsoid

Torus

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

Parallel to the frontal plane

Horizontally

Vertically

According to the planar views

26. 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

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

Artist

Construction superintendent

Technical illustrator

Drafter

28. 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 Modify tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Break tool to clean up the extension lines

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

Signal relays

Switches

Electron tubes

Amplifier tubes

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

Datum

Tolerance

Sheet metal

Angular

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

Torus

Prism

Cone

Pyramid

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

Orthographic

Parallel

Foreshortened

Oblique

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

Oblique

Parallel

Perspective

Orthographic

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

LMC

MMC

Actual size

Smallest

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

Hidden lines

Plane

Center lines

None of these

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

Object lines

Construction lines

Reference lines

Construction lines

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

Transmission circuit

Conducted circuit

Integrated circuit

Plotted circuit

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

180

360

310

270

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

Closed relays

Terminal circles

Transmission diagrams

Operating relays

40. 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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41. 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

Right to left and top to bottom

Left to right and bottom to top

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

Object

Center

Phantom

Hidden

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

Electrical

Mechanical

Architectural

Civil

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

Tolerance

Difference

Allowance

Specification

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

Radius

Arc Radius

Diameter

Arc Length

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

Technical pens

Triangles

Circle templates

Lettering guides

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