Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

Quick dim and linear

Baseline and continuous

Linear and continuous

Baseline and linear

2. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Feet and inches

Even numbers

Feet only

Inches only

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

Centerline piping

Double-line

Single-line

Standard piping

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

Elevations

Foundation

Floor plan

Building section

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

Mechanical

Isometric

All of the above

Architectural working

6. The site plan illustrates _________.

The floor plan

The roof plan

Where the house sits on the property

Where the garage and driveway are located

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

Sheet number

All of these

Line type

Layer set

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

Sidewalk

Roof overhang

Plumbing drain lines

None of the above

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

Ellipse

Line

Polyline

Circle

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

Architectural

Fractional

Decimal

Metric

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

X-axis

All of these

Z-axis

Y-axis

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

Gas and soil

Water and steam

Soil and waste

Water and gas

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

Door openings and walls

Centers of cabinets

All of these

Windows

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

Quarter

Broken out

Half

Full

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

Major diameter

Series of thread

Lead

Thread pitch

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

Scale factor

None of these

Designer's intent

Size of the sheet

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

Pull the line from away from the starting point very carefully

Enter 3 for the length of the line

Read the coordinate position on the Dynamic Readout

Insure that Ortho is on

18. 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

Explode

Offset

19. 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

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

Roof pitch angles

All of these

Roof overhangs

Finished floor elevations

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

Center line

Dimension line

Poly line

Hatch line

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

Select a different text style

Produce a visible grid system

Choose various line types

Control the accuracy of the drawing

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

Broken out

Whole

All of these

Half

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

Product proposals

Engineering change orders

Development plans

Document reviews

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

1 : 1

1 : 4

2 : 1

1 : 2

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

Bolts

Thin parts

All fasteners

Rivets

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

All of these

Site plan

Floor plan

Foundation

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

Set Ortho on

Set the layer to Defpoints

See the entire bounding area to hatch

Turn ISO grid off

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

Commercial

Residential

Publicly funded

Aerospace

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

Transverse

Angular

Filleted

Straight

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

Dimension

Leader

Extension

Center

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

Half section

Broken-out section

Revolved section

Removed section

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

Form

Add

Union

Attach

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

Revolved section

Removed section

Quarter section

Half section

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

Model space

Paper space

The Finished plot

The PDF file

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

Full section

Quarter section

Symmetric section

Half section

37. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

Siding

Roof pitch

Window style

All of these

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

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided prototyping

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

Crest

Root

Lead

Pitch

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

Actual size

Production size

Dimensioned size

Basic size

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

Broken out

Whole

Half

Revolved

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

Phantom

Dashed

Hidden

Center

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

Internal thread

External thread

Major diameter thread

Basic thread

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

Stereo lithography apparatus

Selective laser sintering

Solid ground curing

Fused deposition modeling

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