Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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1. The site plan illustrates _________.

Where the house sits on the property

The floor plan

Where the garage and driveway are located

The roof plan

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

Y-axis

All of these

X-axis

Z-axis

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

Dashed

Hidden

Center

Phantom

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

Finished floor elevations

Roof pitch angles

All of these

Roof overhangs

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

Quarter section

Revolved section

Half section

Removed section

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

Center

Extension

Leader

Dimension

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

Actual size

Production size

Dimensioned size

Basic size

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

Rivets

Bolts

Thin parts

All fasteners

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

Internal thread

Major diameter thread

Basic thread

External thread

10. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

Siding

Window style

Roof pitch

All of these

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

Architectural working

Isometric

All of the above

Mechanical

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

Stereo lithography apparatus

Solid ground curing

Selective laser sintering

Fused deposition modeling

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

Size of the sheet

None of these

Designer's intent

Scale factor

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

Quick dim and linear

Baseline and continuous

Linear and continuous

Baseline and linear

15. 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

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

Floor plan

Foundation

All of these

Site plan

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

Fractional

Decimal

Architectural

Metric

18. 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

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

Double-line

Standard piping

Centerline piping

Single-line

20. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Feet only

Inches only

Feet and inches

Even numbers

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

Select a different text style

Produce a visible grid system

Control the accuracy of the drawing

Choose various line types

22. 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

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

Set the layer to Defpoints

See the entire bounding area to hatch

Set Ortho on

Turn ISO grid off

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

Document reviews

Development plans

Engineering change orders

Product proposals

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

Floor plan

Elevations

Foundation

Building section

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

Removed section

Revolved section

Broken-out section

Half section

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

Line type

All of these

Layer set

Sheet number

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

Centers of cabinets

All of these

Door openings and walls

Windows

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

Half

Whole

Revolved

Broken out

30. 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

Insure that Ortho is on

Enter 3 for the length of the line

Read the coordinate position on the Dynamic Readout

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

Soil and waste

Water and steam

Water and gas

Gas and soil

32. 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

Dimension line

Poly line

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

Quarter

Broken out

Half

Full

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

The PDF file

Paper space

Model space

The Finished plot

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

Line

Polyline

Ellipse

Circle

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

Lead

Thread pitch

Series of thread

Major diameter

37. 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

Explode

Offset

Copy

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

Half section

Full section

Quarter section

Symmetric section

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

1 : 4

1 : 1

2 : 1

1 : 2

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

Lead

Crest

Root

Pitch

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

Straight

Filleted

Angular

Transverse

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

Commercial

Aerospace

Residential

Publicly funded

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

Broken out

Whole

Half

All of these

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

Union

Form

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