Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

Gas and soil

Water and gas

Soil and waste

Water and steam

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

Selective laser sintering

Fused deposition modeling

Stereo lithography apparatus

Solid ground curing

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

Insure that Ortho is on

Pull the line from away from the starting point very carefully

Read the coordinate position on the Dynamic Readout

Enter 3 for the length of the line

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

Thread pitch

Lead

Series of thread

Major diameter

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

Layer set

Sheet number

All of these

Line type

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

Lead

Pitch

Crest

Root

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

Isometric

Architectural working

All of the above

Mechanical

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

Half

Quarter

Broken out

Full

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

Half

Broken out

Revolved

Whole

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

Revolved section

Half section

Removed section

Broken-out section

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

Quarter section

Removed section

Half section

Revolved section

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

Quick dim and linear

Linear and continuous

Baseline and linear

Baseline and continuous

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

Ellipse

Circle

Line

Polyline

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

Quarter section

Full section

Symmetric section

Half section

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

Extension

Leader

Center

Dimension

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

Basic thread

External thread

Internal thread

Major diameter thread

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

Residential

Commercial

Aerospace

Publicly funded

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

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided prototyping

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided design

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

1 : 2

1 : 1

2 : 1

1 : 4

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

Union

Attach

Form

Add

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

Building section

Foundation

Floor plan

Elevations

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

All of these

Z-axis

Y-axis

X-axis

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

All of these

Broken out

Whole

Half

24. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Inches only

Feet and inches

Feet only

Even numbers

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

All fasteners

Rivets

Bolts

Thin parts

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

Centers of cabinets

Windows

All of these

Door openings and walls

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

All of these

Roof overhangs

Finished floor elevations

Roof pitch angles

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

Product proposals

Document reviews

Engineering change orders

Development plans

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

Sidewalk

Roof overhang

None of the above

Plumbing drain lines

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

Phantom

Center

Hidden

Dashed

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

Copy

Explode

Offset

None of these

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

Scale factor

Designer's intent

Size of the sheet

None of these

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

Center line

Hidden line

Zero

Hatch

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

Centerline piping

Standard piping

Single-line

Double-line

35. The site plan illustrates _________.

Where the garage and driveway are located

The roof plan

The floor plan

Where the house sits on the property

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

Angular

Filleted

Straight

Transverse

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

Turn ISO grid off

Set the layer to Defpoints

Set Ortho on

See the entire bounding area to hatch

38. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

Window style

Roof pitch

Siding

All of these

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

Foundation

Floor plan

Site plan

All of these

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

Dimensioned size

Basic size

Actual size

Production size

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41. 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

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

Dimension line

Center line

Hatch line

Poly line

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

Model space

The PDF file

Paper space

The Finished plot

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

Architectural

Fractional

Decimal

Metric

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