Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

Vertex

Edge

Oblique

Line

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

45 degree triangle

Parallel straight edge

All of these

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

All of these

Aerospace engineers

Mechanical engineers

Piping drafters

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

One yard or over

One inch or over

One rod or over

One foot or over

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

Vertically

Parallel to the frontal plane

According to the planar views

Horizontally

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

CAD trainee

Receptionist

Checker

Client

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

Smallest

MMC

LMC

Actual size

8. 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.

5.958

4.7625

1.906

14.6844

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

Amplifier tubes

Signal relays

Electron tubes

Switches

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

Datum

Sheet metal

Angular

Tolerance

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

Circle templates

Triangles

Technical pens

Lettering guides

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

Front view

Right side view

Top view

All of these

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

Electrical

Civil

Mechanical

Architectural

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

Engineer's

Architect's

None of these

Metric

15. 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

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

Closed relays

Transmission diagrams

Operating relays

Terminal circles

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

Oblique

Parallel

Perspective

Orthographic

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

360

180

270

310

19. 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 top line of the front view 2 inches

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

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

Inside

Outside

Radial

Isoplane

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21. 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

22. 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 Modify tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Break tool to clean up the extension lines

Use the Tolerance tool to clean up the extension lines

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

Transmission circuit

Conducted circuit

Integrated circuit

Plotted circuit

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

Technical illustrator

Artist

Drafter

Construction superintendent

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

Allowance

Difference

Specification

Tolerance

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

Base

Frontal

Horizontal

Profile

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

Prism

Cone

Pyramid

Torus

28. 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

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

Dimension line

Extension line

Centerline

Arrowhead line

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

Mechanical

Architectural

Civil

Process piping

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

1/4" = 1'-0"

1" = 100'

1/8" = 1'-0"

3/4" = 1'-0"

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

Angle

Linear

Aligned

Radial

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

Cylinder

Torus

Cone

Ellipsoid

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

Extruded solid

Planar solid

Revolved solid

Warped solid

35. 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

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

As an oblique surface

True size

As a line or edge

Foreshortened

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

Help the client select a color for their carpet

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

38. 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

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

Object lines

Reference lines

Construction lines

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. 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

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

Linear dimension

Aligned dimension

Baseline dimension

Angle dimension

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

Radius

Arc Length

Arc Radius

Diameter

44. 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

Left to right and bottom to top

Right to left and top to bottom

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

Planar

Orthographic

Horizontal

Auxiliary

46. 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

Linear

Quick Dimension

Baseline

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