Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-3

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

All of these

Top view

Right side view

Front view

2. 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

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

Help the client understand the overall design concept

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

Construction lines

Reference lines

Construction lines

Object lines

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

Engineering Graphics

Engineering Drawing

All of these

Drafting

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

Object

Phantom

Center

Hidden

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

None of these

Hidden lines

Center lines

Plane

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

Angular

Sheet metal

Tolerance

Datum

8. 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

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

Dimension line

Centerline

Arrowhead line

Extension line

10. 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

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

Extension line

Dimension line

Leader

Specification

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

45 degree triangle

Parallel straight edge

45 degree triangle

All of these

13. 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 Modify 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 Tolerance tool to clean up the extension lines

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

Horizontal

Profile

Frontal

Base

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

Pyramid

Cone

Torus

Prism

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

True size

Foreshortened

As a line or edge

As an oblique surface

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

Architectural

Electrical

Civil

Mechanical

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

Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches

Offset the right vertical line of the front view

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

Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees

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

Vertex

Oblique

Line

Edge

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

Linear

Angle

Aligned

Radial

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

LMC

Smallest

MMC

Actual size

22. 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

Right to left and bottom to top

Right to left and top to bottom

Left to right and top to bottom

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

30 or 45 degrees

15 or 30 degrees

25 or 30 degrees

45 or 60 degrees

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

Radius

Diameter

Arc Radius

Arc Length

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

Mechanical engineers

Piping drafters

All of these

Aerospace engineers

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

1/8" = 1'-0"

3/4" = 1'-0"

1/4" = 1'-0"

1" = 100'

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

Integrated circuit

Plotted circuit

Transmission circuit

Conducted circuit

28. 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

1.906

4.7625

14.6844

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

180

360

310

270

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

Vertically

Horizontally

Parallel to the frontal plane

According to the planar views

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31. The ____________ tool on the Dimension tool bar will place several dimensions at one time by using a selection box placed over several part features.

Quick Dimension

Continue

Linear

Baseline

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

Electron tubes

Signal relays

Switches

Amplifier tubes

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

Ellipsoid

Torus

Cone

Cylinder

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

Transmission diagrams

Operating relays

Terminal circles

Closed relays

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

Oblique

Foreshortened

Orthographic

Parallel

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

Angle dimension

Aligned dimension

Linear dimension

Baseline dimension

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

Mechanical

Civil

Process piping

Architectural

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

Orthographic

Planar

Auxiliary

Horizontal

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

Orthographic

Perspective

Oblique

Parallel

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

One foot or over

One yard or over

One rod or over

One inch or over

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

Isoplane

Radial

Outside

Inside

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

Revolved solid

Planar solid

Warped solid

Extruded solid

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

Construction superintendent

Technical illustrator

Artist

Drafter

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

Client

Receptionist

CAD trainee

Checker

46. 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

Lettering guides

Technical pens

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