Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

1 : 1

1 : 4

1 : 2

2 : 1

2. 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 Ortho on

Set the layer to Defpoints

Turn ISO grid off

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

Offset

Explode

Copy

None of these

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

Floor plan

Foundation

All of these

Site plan

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

Actual size

Dimensioned size

Basic size

Production size

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

Residential

Publicly funded

Aerospace

Commercial

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

Building section

Elevations

Floor plan

Foundation

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

Quarter

Full

Half

Broken out

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

Development plans

Document reviews

Engineering change orders

Product proposals

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

Dimension line

Poly line

Center line

Hatch line

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

All fasteners

Thin parts

Rivets

Bolts

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

Extension

Leader

Center

Dimension

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

Windows

All of these

Door openings and walls

Centers of cabinets

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

Isometric

Architectural working

Mechanical

All of the above

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

The Finished plot

The PDF file

Model space

Paper space

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

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided prototyping

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

Removed section

Half section

Revolved section

Quarter section

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

Quick dim and linear

Linear and continuous

Baseline and linear

Baseline and continuous

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

Whole

Half

Revolved

Broken out

20. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Even numbers

Feet and inches

Inches only

Feet only

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

Ellipse

Line

Polyline

Circle

22. The site plan illustrates _________.

The roof plan

Where the house sits on the property

Where the garage and driveway are located

The floor plan

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

Roof overhang

Sidewalk

Plumbing drain lines

None of the above

24. 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

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

Architectural

Metric

Fractional

Decimal

26. 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

Read the coordinate position on the Dynamic Readout

Pull the line from away from the starting point very carefully

Insure that Ortho is on

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

Attach

Union

Add

Form

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

Thread pitch

Lead

Major diameter

Series of thread

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

All of these

X-axis

Y-axis

Z-axis

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

Water and steam

Water and gas

Soil and waste

Gas and soil

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

Half

All of these

Broken out

Whole

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

Hidden line

Zero

Center line

Hatch

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

Single-line

Double-line

Centerline piping

Standard piping

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

External thread

Major diameter thread

Internal thread

Basic thread

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

Finished floor elevations

Roof overhangs

All of these

Roof pitch angles

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

Scale factor

Size of the sheet

None of these

Designer's intent

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

Half section

Removed section

Revolved section

Broken-out section

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

Lead

Crest

Pitch

Root

39. 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

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

Line type

All of these

Layer set

Sheet number

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41. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

All of these

Roof pitch

Siding

Window style

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

Transverse

Angular

Straight

Filleted

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

Produce a visible grid system

Choose various line types

Select a different text style

Control the accuracy of the drawing

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

Quarter section

Half section

Full section

Symmetric section

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