Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

Roof pitch angles

Finished floor elevations

All of these

Roof overhangs

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

None of these

Scale factor

Designer's intent

Size of the sheet

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

Filleted

Angular

Straight

Transverse

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

Broken-out section

Revolved section

Half section

Removed section

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

Ellipse

Circle

Polyline

Line

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

2 : 1

1 : 1

1 : 2

1 : 4

7. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

Window style

All of these

Roof pitch

Siding

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

Site plan

Floor plan

Foundation

All of these

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

Set Ortho on

See the entire bounding area to hatch

Set the layer to Defpoints

Turn ISO grid off

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

Hidden

Dashed

Center

Phantom

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

Leader

Extension

Center

Dimension

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

Produce a visible grid system

Choose various line types

Control the accuracy of the drawing

Select a different text style

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

Half section

Quarter section

Full section

Symmetric section

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

Baseline and linear

Linear and continuous

Baseline and continuous

Quick dim and linear

15. 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

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

Quarter section

Removed section

Revolved section

Half section

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

Copy

None of these

Explode

Offset

18. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Even numbers

Inches only

Feet only

Feet and inches

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

Add

Union

Form

Attach

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

Root

Crest

Pitch

Lead

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

Hidden line

Center line

Hatch

Zero

22. 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

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

All fasteners

Bolts

Thin parts

Rivets

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

Broken out

All of these

Whole

Half

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

All of these

Layer set

Line type

Sheet number

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

Fractional

Metric

Architectural

Decimal

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

Broken out

Full

Half

Quarter

28. The site plan illustrates _________.

Where the house sits on the property

Where the garage and driveway are located

The floor plan

The roof plan

29. 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

Enter 3 for the length of the line

Insure that Ortho is on

Read the coordinate position on the Dynamic Readout

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

Centerline piping

Double-line

Standard piping

Single-line

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

Major diameter thread

Basic thread

Internal thread

External thread

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

Mechanical

Architectural working

Isometric

All of the above

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

Publicly funded

Commercial

Residential

Aerospace

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

Production size

Dimensioned size

Actual size

Basic size

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

Foundation

Building section

Floor plan

Elevations

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

Door openings and walls

Centers of cabinets

All of these

Windows

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

Revolved

Whole

Broken out

Half

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

Gas and soil

Water and steam

Water and gas

Soil and waste

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

Y-axis

X-axis

Z-axis

All of these

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

Product proposals

Engineering change orders

Document reviews

Development plans

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

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided prototyping

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

The Finished plot

Model space

The PDF file

Paper space

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

None of the above

Roof overhang

Plumbing drain lines

Sidewalk

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

Major diameter

Series of thread

Thread pitch

Lead

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