Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

Produce a visible grid system

Select a different text style

Control the accuracy of the drawing

Choose various line types

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

Dimensioned size

Production size

Basic size

Actual size

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

Extension

Dimension

Leader

Center

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

Hatch

Zero

Center line

Hidden line

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

Root

Lead

Pitch

Crest

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

Broken-out section

Half section

Removed section

Revolved section

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

Polyline

Ellipse

Circle

Line

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

Line type

All of these

Sheet number

Layer set

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

Site plan

All of these

Foundation

Floor plan

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

Quarter

Broken out

Full

Half

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

Center

Hidden

Dashed

Phantom

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

X-axis

Z-axis

Y-axis

All of these

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

Center line

Dimension line

Poly line

Hatch line

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

Document reviews

Product proposals

Engineering change orders

Development plans

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

Baseline and linear

Quick dim and linear

Baseline and continuous

Linear and continuous

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

Straight

Angular

Filleted

Transverse

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

Water and gas

Soil and waste

Gas and soil

Water and steam

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

Major diameter

Thread pitch

Lead

Series of thread

19. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Even numbers

Feet and inches

Feet only

Inches only

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

Foundation

Floor plan

Building section

Elevations

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21. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

Roof pitch

Siding

Window style

All of these

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

1 : 4

1 : 2

1 : 1

2 : 1

23. The site plan illustrates _________.

The roof plan

Where the house sits on the property

The floor plan

Where the garage and driveway are located

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

All fasteners

Bolts

Thin parts

Rivets

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

Set the layer to Defpoints

Turn ISO grid off

Set Ortho on

See the entire bounding area to hatch

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

Fractional

Metric

Architectural

Decimal

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

Internal thread

Basic thread

Major diameter thread

External thread

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

Broken out

Half

All of these

Whole

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

Selective laser sintering

Stereo lithography apparatus

Fused deposition modeling

Solid ground curing

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

Union

Form

Attach

Add

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

Symmetric section

Quarter section

Half section

Full section

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

Sidewalk

Plumbing drain lines

None of the above

Roof overhang

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

Revolved

Broken out

Half

Whole

34. 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

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

Half section

Removed section

Revolved section

Quarter section

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

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided prototyping

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

Single-line

Centerline piping

Double-line

Standard piping

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

Isometric

All of the above

Mechanical

Architectural working

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

Windows

Centers of cabinets

All of these

Door openings and walls

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

Read the coordinate position on the Dynamic Readout

Insure that Ortho is on

Pull the line from away from the starting point very carefully

Enter 3 for the length of the line

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

The Finished plot

Paper space

The PDF file

Model space

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

None of these

Designer's intent

Scale factor

Size of the sheet

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

Aerospace

Publicly funded

Commercial

Residential

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

Finished floor elevations

Roof pitch angles

Roof overhangs

All of these

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