Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

All of these

Centers of cabinets

Windows

Door openings and walls

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

Hidden

Dashed

Phantom

Center

3. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

All of these

Window style

Siding

Roof pitch

4. 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

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

Quick dim and linear

Linear and continuous

Baseline and continuous

Baseline and linear

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

All of these

Roof pitch angles

Roof overhangs

Finished floor elevations

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

Produce a visible grid system

Select a different text style

Choose various line types

Control the accuracy of the drawing

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

1 : 1

1 : 4

1 : 2

2 : 1

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

Removed section

Half section

Revolved section

Broken-out section

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

Half section

Revolved section

Quarter section

Removed section

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

Isometric

Architectural working

All of the above

Mechanical

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

Water and steam

Soil and waste

Gas and soil

Water and gas

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

Dimensioned size

Production size

Actual size

Basic size

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

Crest

Lead

Root

Pitch

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

Foundation

Building section

Floor plan

Elevations

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

Whole

Revolved

Broken out

Half

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

Major diameter thread

External thread

Basic thread

Internal thread

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

Broken out

Quarter

Full

Half

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

Insure that Ortho is on

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

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

Offset

None of these

Copy

Explode

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

Fractional

Decimal

Metric

Architectural

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

Bolts

All fasteners

Rivets

Thin parts

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

Quarter section

Half section

Full section

Symmetric section

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

Standard piping

Single-line

Centerline piping

Double-line

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

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided prototyping

Computer-aided engineering

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

Broken out

Half

Whole

All of these

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

Major diameter

Lead

Series of thread

Thread pitch

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

X-axis

All of these

Z-axis

Y-axis

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

Angular

Filleted

Transverse

Straight

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

Extension

Dimension

Leader

Center

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31. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Even numbers

Feet and inches

Inches only

Feet only

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

All of these

Line type

Layer set

Sheet number

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

Center line

Hatch

Hidden line

Zero

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

Development plans

Engineering change orders

Product proposals

Document reviews

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

Union

Attach

Form

Add

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

Circle

Line

Polyline

Ellipse

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

Center line

Poly line

Dimension line

Hatch line

38. The site plan illustrates _________.

Where the house sits on the property

The floor plan

The roof plan

Where the garage and driveway are located

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

Fused deposition modeling

Selective laser sintering

Stereo lithography apparatus

Solid ground curing

40. 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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41. The foundation contractor will work with the following architectural plans.

Site plan

Floor plan

All of these

Foundation

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

Commercial

Aerospace

Publicly funded

Residential

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

Model space

The Finished plot

Paper space

The PDF file

44. 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

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