Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

Document reviews

Product proposals

Development plans

Engineering change orders

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

Windows

Centers of cabinets

Door openings and walls

All of these

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

All of these

Half

Broken out

Whole

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

Basic thread

Internal thread

External thread

Major diameter thread

5. 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

6. 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

Insure that Ortho is on

Pull the line from away from the starting point very carefully

7. 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

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

Architectural

Metric

Decimal

Fractional

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

Quarter section

Revolved section

Removed section

Half section

10. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

Window style

Siding

Roof pitch

All of these

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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

Bolts

Rivets

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

Add

Attach

Union

Form

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

Half section

Removed section

Revolved section

Broken-out section

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

Explode

None of these

Offset

Copy

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

Ellipse

Polyline

Line

Circle

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

All of these

Roof pitch angles

Roof overhangs

Finished floor elevations

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

All of these

Layer set

Line type

Sheet number

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

Baseline and continuous

Linear and continuous

Quick dim and linear

Baseline and linear

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

Whole

Broken out

Half

Revolved

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

Architectural working

Isometric

All of the above

Mechanical

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21. The site plan illustrates _________.

Where the house sits on the property

Where the garage and driveway are located

The floor plan

The roof plan

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

Building section

Elevations

Floor plan

Foundation

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

Turn ISO grid off

See the entire bounding area to hatch

Set the layer to Defpoints

Set Ortho on

24. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Inches only

Even numbers

Feet and inches

Feet only

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

Floor plan

All of these

Site plan

Foundation

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

Z-axis

All of these

X-axis

Y-axis

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

Publicly funded

Commercial

Residential

Aerospace

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

Hatch line

Center line

Poly line

Dimension line

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

2 : 1

1 : 4

1 : 1

1 : 2

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

Soil and waste

Water and steam

Gas and soil

Water and gas

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

Half section

Symmetric section

Full section

Quarter section

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

Root

Pitch

Crest

Lead

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

Leader

Extension

Center

Dimension

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

The Finished plot

Model space

The PDF file

Paper space

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

Thread pitch

Lead

Major diameter

Series of thread

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

Centerline piping

Single-line

Standard piping

Double-line

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

Transverse

Angular

Filleted

Straight

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

Scale factor

Designer's intent

None of these

Size of the sheet

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

Fused deposition modeling

Solid ground curing

Selective laser sintering

Stereo lithography apparatus

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

Hidden line

Hatch

Center line

Zero

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41. 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

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

Broken out

Full

Half

Quarter

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

Select a different text style

Choose various line types

Produce a visible grid system

Control the accuracy of the drawing

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

Actual size

Production size

Basic size

Dimensioned size

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