Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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1. 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

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

Linear

Radial

Angle

Aligned

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

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

To eliminate hidden lines

4. 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

1.906

5.958

4.7625

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

Conducted circuit

Integrated circuit

Transmission circuit

Plotted circuit

6. 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

Circle templates

Triangles

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

All of these

45 degree triangle

Parallel straight edge

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

Mechanical engineers

Piping drafters

All of these

Aerospace engineers

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

Architectural

Mechanical

Process piping

Civil

10. 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

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11. 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 stretch tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Modify tool to clean up the extension lines

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

Arc Length

Arc Radius

Diameter

Radius

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

Phantom

Center

Object

Hidden

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

Cone

Prism

Torus

Pyramid

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

Vertex

Oblique

Edge

Line

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

All of these

Front view

Top view

Right side view

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

Baseline dimension

Linear dimension

Aligned dimension

Angle dimension

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

Dimension line

Extension line

Specification

Leader

19. 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

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

As a line or edge

Foreshortened

True size

As an oblique surface

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

Vertically

Horizontally

Parallel to the frontal plane

According to the planar views

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

Horizontal

Base

Frontal

Profile

23. 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

24. In U.S. structural and architectural drafting, all dimensions of this length are usually expressed in feet and inches:

One inch or over

One foot or over

One yard or over

One rod or over

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

Specification

Allowance

Tolerance

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

Arrowhead line

Dimension line

Centerline

Extension line

27. 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

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

CAD trainee

Checker

Client

Receptionist

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

Artist

Technical illustrator

Construction superintendent

Drafter

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

Engineering Graphics

Drafting

Engineering Drawing

All of these

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

Construction lines

Reference lines

Object lines

32. 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

33. 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

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

180

270

360

310

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

30 or 45 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

45 or 60 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

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

Orthographic

Oblique

Perspective

Parallel

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

Amplifier tubes

Electron tubes

Signal relays

Switches

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

Extruded solid

Warped solid

Planar solid

Revolved solid

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

Angular

Tolerance

Datum

Sheet metal

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

Mechanical

Architectural

Electrical

Civil

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41. 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

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

Torus

Ellipsoid

Cone

Cylinder

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

Closed relays

Transmission diagrams

Terminal circles

Operating relays

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

Isoplane

Outside

Radial

Inside

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

3/4" = 1'-0"

1/8" = 1'-0"

1" = 100'

1/4" = 1'-0"

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

LMC

Actual size

Smallest

MMC

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