Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

Center line

Hatch line

Dimension line

Poly line

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

Half section

Removed section

Revolved section

Broken-out section

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

Angular

Filleted

Straight

Transverse

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

Engineering change orders

Development plans

Product proposals

Document reviews

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

Single-line

Centerline piping

Standard piping

Double-line

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

Internal thread

Major diameter thread

External thread

Basic thread

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

Baseline and linear

Quick dim and linear

Baseline and continuous

Linear and continuous

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

Hatch

Center line

Hidden line

Zero

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

Center

Phantom

Dashed

Hidden

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

Half section

Quarter section

Full section

Symmetric section

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

Root

Pitch

Lead

Crest

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

See the entire bounding area to hatch

Set the layer to Defpoints

Set Ortho on

Turn ISO grid off

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

Revolved

Whole

Half

Broken out

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

Produce a visible grid system

Control the accuracy of the drawing

Choose various line types

Select a different text style

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

Circle

Line

Ellipse

Polyline

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

Metric

Architectural

Decimal

Fractional

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

Z-axis

Y-axis

All of these

X-axis

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

Roof pitch angles

Finished floor elevations

All of these

Roof overhangs

19. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

Roof pitch

Window style

Siding

All of these

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

Extension

Dimension

Center

Leader

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

All of these

Whole

Broken out

Half

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

Production size

Actual size

Dimensioned size

Basic size

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

1 : 4

2 : 1

1 : 2

1 : 1

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

Thin parts

Bolts

Rivets

All fasteners

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

The PDF file

Paper space

The Finished plot

Model space

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

Layer set

Sheet number

Line type

All of these

27. The site plan illustrates _________.

Where the garage and driveway are located

Where the house sits on the property

The floor plan

The roof plan

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

Commercial

Aerospace

Residential

Publicly funded

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

Water and gas

Soil and waste

Gas and soil

Water and steam

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

Designer's intent

Scale factor

Size of the sheet

None of these

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

Floor plan

Building section

Foundation

Elevations

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

Foundation

Floor plan

All of these

Site plan

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

Thread pitch

Major diameter

Lead

Series of thread

34. 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

Explode

Copy

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

Solid ground curing

Stereo lithography apparatus

Fused deposition modeling

Selective laser sintering

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

All of these

Windows

Centers of cabinets

Door openings and walls

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

Read the coordinate position on the Dynamic Readout

Pull the line from away from the starting point very carefully

Insure that Ortho is on

Enter 3 for the length of the line

38. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Even numbers

Feet and inches

Inches only

Feet only

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

Form

Attach

Union

Add

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

Roof overhang

None of the above

Plumbing drain lines

Sidewalk

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

All of the above

Mechanical

Architectural working

Isometric

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

Half section

Revolved section

Quarter section

Removed section

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

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided prototyping

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

Broken out

Quarter

Half

Full

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