Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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1. This is the bottom surface joining the sides of two adjacent threads:

Pitch

Crest

Lead

Root

2. One critical issue drafters need to pay close attention to is the ________.

Size of the sheet

None of these

Designer's intent

Scale factor

3. When dimensioning piping drawings, you give the lengths of all runs of this type:

Filleted

Transverse

Angular

Straight

4. Architectural dimensioning standards allow for the placement of dimensions inside the floor plan. These inside dimensions locate interior __________.

Centers of cabinets

Windows

All of these

Door openings and walls

5. Dimensions are used on the elevation plan to describe ________.

Roof overhangs

All of these

Roof pitch angles

Finished floor elevations

6. The UCS icon represents the intersection of the __________.

Z-axis

All of these

X-axis

Y-axis

7. When only a small section of an interior area needs to be revealed the drafter can use a ________ section.

Quarter

Full

Broken out

Half

8. Objects that are symmetric can be shown effectively using this type of section:

Symmetric section

Half section

Quarter section

Full section

9. This type of drawing shows two lines representing the pipe diameter:

Double-line

Centerline piping

Standard piping

Single-line

10. This type of rapid prototyping system uses a laser to fuse powdered metals, plastics, or ceramics:

Stereo lithography apparatus

Selective laser sintering

Fused deposition modeling

Solid ground curing

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11. The dimension text size is determined by what the architect deems necessary in _________.

The PDF file

Paper space

The Finished plot

Model space

12. The building construction industry relies on sets of ________ drawings to construct homes and commercial buildings.

All of the above

Architectural working

Isometric

Mechanical

13. The Auto-CAD command used to combine two or more primitive shapes into a single complex 3-dimensional model is ________.

Attach

Add

Form

Union

14. In an exploded assembly drawing it is customary for the drafter to use a ________ line to illustrate how parts fit together.

Phantom

Center

Dashed

Hidden

15. In an assembly section, these parts should have their section lines left out or shown solid black:

Rivets

Thin parts

Bolts

All fasteners

16. When filling an area with a hatch pattern in Auto-CAD the drafter needs to be able to ________.

Turn ISO grid off

Set Ortho on

Set the layer to Defpoints

See the entire bounding area to hatch

17. This type of thread is a thread on the inside of a member:

Basic thread

Internal thread

External thread

Major diameter thread

18. If designs require changes, they should be documented with:

Product proposals

Document reviews

Engineering change orders

Development plans

19. In this type of section, one quarter of the object is removed:

Removed section

Half section

Revolved section

Quarter section

20. When dimensioning architectural drawings architects will utilize both ________ and ________ options.

Baseline and continuous

Baseline and linear

Quick dim and linear

Linear and continuous

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21. A full scale technical drawing will have a scale factor of ________.

1 : 4

1 : 1

2 : 1

1 : 2

22. There should be a visible gap between the wall and the _________ line.

Extension

Center

Leader

Dimension

23. On a floor plan the dashed line that appears approximately 24" outside the exterior wall represents the ________.

Roof overhang

Sidewalk

None of the above

Plumbing drain lines

24. Drafters should use a ________ in a section view of a mechanical part that includes the cylindrical view of a threaded hole.

Poly line

Center line

Dimension line

Hatch line

25. This is the measured size of a finished part:

Actual size

Basic size

Production size

Dimensioned size

26. These types of pipes are generally connected with bell and spigot joints or flanged joints:

Water and steam

Gas and soil

Water and gas

Soil and waste

27. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

Roof pitch

Siding

All of these

Window style

28. The title block used on working drawings should include the _________.

Sheet number

Layer set

All of these

Line type

29. A line with a tapering width can be easily created by using the ________ tool.

Line

Ellipse

Polyline

Circle

30. By using a ________ section of a cylindrical mechanical part the drafter should be able to show only one view of the part.

Broken out

Revolved

Half

Whole

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31. This type of section is limited by a break line:

Half section

Revolved section

Broken-out section

Removed section

32. When using the direct entry method to create a horizontal line exactly three inches long the drafter should ________ first.

Enter 3 for the length of the line

Pull the line from away from the starting point very carefully

Read the coordinate position on the Dynamic Readout

Insure that Ortho is on

33. When creating your own blocks it is important to avoid drawing any portion of the block in the ________ layer.

Zero

Hatch

Hidden line

Center line

34. This allows the performance of structures to be analyzed and tested efficiently, accurately, and quickly:

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided prototyping

Computer-aided manufacturing

35. The site plan illustrates _________.

The floor plan

The roof plan

Where the house sits on the property

Where the garage and driveway are located

36. The foundation contractor will work with the following architectural plans.

All of these

Foundation

Floor plan

Site plan

37. When using versions of Auto-CAD prior to Release 2006 it may be necessary to ________ a block in order to edit it.

None of these

Offset

Copy

Explode

38. When setting up a mechanical drawing in Auto-CAD the drafter should set the units to ________.

Architectural

Metric

Decimal

Fractional

39. To avoid having to dimension to a hidden feature the drafter can utilize a ________ section.

Broken out

Whole

Half

All of these

40. The architectural and construction industries use the United States National CAD standard (NCS) system on many ________ projects.

Residential

Aerospace

Commercial

Publicly funded

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41. The architectural drafter usually begins a set of working drawings by creating the ________ plan first.

Building section

Floor plan

Foundation

Elevations

42. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Feet only

Even numbers

Inches only

Feet and inches

43. Understanding the Cartesian coordinate system will help the beginning drafter __________.

Produce a visible grid system

Control the accuracy of the drawing

Select a different text style

Choose various line types

44. The standard number of threads per inch for various diameters is the:

Lead

Thread pitch

Major diameter

Series of thread

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