Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

Hatch

Hidden line

Zero

Center line

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

Plumbing drain lines

Roof overhang

Sidewalk

None of the above

3. The site plan illustrates _________.

The roof plan

Where the house sits on the property

The floor plan

Where the garage and driveway are located

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

Finished floor elevations

Roof pitch angles

Roof overhangs

All of these

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

Metric

Decimal

Fractional

Architectural

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

Broken out

Half

Quarter

Full

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

Basic size

Production size

Actual size

Dimensioned size

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

All of these

Sheet number

Layer set

Line type

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

Form

Attach

Union

Add

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

Engineering change orders

Development plans

Document reviews

Product proposals

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11. 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

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

Lead

Pitch

Crest

Root

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

Aerospace

Publicly funded

Commercial

Residential

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

Selective laser sintering

Solid ground curing

Fused deposition modeling

Stereo lithography apparatus

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

Dashed

Center

Phantom

Hidden

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

Series of thread

Major diameter

Thread pitch

Lead

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

Dimension line

Center line

Hatch line

Poly line

18. 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

Enter 3 for the length of the line

Insure that Ortho is on

Pull the line from away from the starting point very carefully

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

Major diameter thread

Internal thread

Basic thread

External thread

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

None of these

Scale factor

Designer's intent

Size of the sheet

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

Centers of cabinets

Door openings and walls

Windows

All of these

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

Straight

Angular

Transverse

Filleted

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

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided prototyping

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided engineering

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

Floor plan

Elevations

Building section

Foundation

25. 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

Copy

Offset

Explode

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

Extension

Dimension

Leader

Center

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

Broken out

Half

Whole

All of these

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

Floor plan

Site plan

Foundation

All of these

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

1 : 2

1 : 1

2 : 1

1 : 4

30. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

Roof pitch

All of these

Siding

Window style

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

Removed section

Broken-out section

Half section

Revolved section

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

Full section

Half section

Symmetric section

Quarter section

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

Architectural working

Mechanical

All of the above

Isometric

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

Baseline and linear

Baseline and continuous

Linear and continuous

Quick dim and linear

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

Gas and soil

Water and gas

Water and steam

Soil and waste

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

All of these

Z-axis

X-axis

Y-axis

37. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Feet and inches

Feet only

Even numbers

Inches only

38. 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

Turn ISO grid off

Set the layer to Defpoints

Set Ortho on

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

The PDF file

The Finished plot

Model space

Paper space

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

Ellipse

Line

Circle

Polyline

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

Bolts

Thin parts

Rivets

All fasteners

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

Choose various line types

Select a different text style

Control the accuracy of the drawing

Produce a visible grid system

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

Revolved section

Removed section

Half section

Quarter section

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

Centerline piping

Single-line

Double-line

Standard piping

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