Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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1. 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

Hidden lines

Plane

2. 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

3. 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

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

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

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

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

5. 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

Linear

Quick Dimension

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

Orthographic

Foreshortened

Oblique

Parallel

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

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

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

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

Hidden

Phantom

Center

Object

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

As an oblique surface

Foreshortened

True size

As a line or edge

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

Metric

Engineer's

Architect's

None of these

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

Piping drafters

Aerospace engineers

Mechanical engineers

All of these

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

Transmission diagrams

Closed relays

Operating relays

Terminal circles

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

Extension line

Arrowhead line

Dimension line

Centerline

14. 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

Left to right and top to bottom

Right to left and top to bottom

Right to left and bottom to top

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

Perspective

Orthographic

Oblique

Parallel

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

Construction lines

Reference lines

Construction lines

Object lines

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

Extension line

Leader

Specification

Dimension line

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

Client

Checker

Receptionist

CAD trainee

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

Amplifier tubes

Electron tubes

Switches

Signal relays

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

Architectural

Electrical

Civil

Mechanical

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21. 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"

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

Cylinder

Cone

Ellipsoid

Torus

23. 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

4.7625

14.6844

5.958

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

Extruded solid

Planar solid

Revolved solid

Warped solid

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

Difference

Tolerance

Specification

Allowance

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

Orthographic

Horizontal

Auxiliary

Planar

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

Horizontally

According to the planar views

Parallel to the frontal plane

Vertically

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

Baseline dimension

Angle dimension

Linear dimension

Aligned dimension

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

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

To show cylinders as ellipses

To eliminate hidden lines

To locate center marks

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

All of these

Top view

Right side view

Front view

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

MMC

Actual size

Smallest

LMC

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

45 or 60 degrees

30 or 45 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

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

Torus

Pyramid

Prism

Cone

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

270

310

180

360

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

All of these

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

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

Mechanical

Architectural

Civil

Process piping

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

Drafter

Construction superintendent

Artist

Technical illustrator

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

Diameter

Radius

Arc Radius

Arc Length

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

Technical pens

Lettering guides

Triangles

Circle templates

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

Engineering Graphics

Engineering Drawing

Drafting

All of these

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

Tolerance

Datum

Sheet metal

Angular

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

Isoplane

Outside

Inside

Radial

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

Conducted circuit

Plotted circuit

Transmission circuit

Integrated circuit

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

Profile

Base

Horizontal

Frontal

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

Aligned

Linear

Radial

Angle

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

Oblique

Vertex

Line

Edge

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