Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

Stereo lithography apparatus

Fused deposition modeling

Selective laser sintering

Solid ground curing

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

Pitch

Lead

Root

Crest

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

Hatch

Center line

Zero

Hidden line

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

Transverse

Filleted

Straight

Angular

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

Choose various line types

Select a different text style

Control the accuracy of the drawing

Produce a visible grid system

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

None of the above

Plumbing drain lines

Sidewalk

Roof overhang

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

Building section

Elevations

Floor plan

Foundation

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

All of these

Half

Broken out

Whole

9. 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

Hatch line

Dimension line

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

Thin parts

Rivets

All fasteners

Bolts

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

Quick dim and linear

Linear and continuous

Baseline and continuous

Baseline and linear

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

Polyline

Line

Ellipse

Circle

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

Major diameter

Lead

Series of thread

Thread pitch

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

Residential

Publicly funded

Aerospace

Commercial

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

X-axis

All of these

Z-axis

Y-axis

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

All of these

Foundation

Site plan

Floor plan

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

Half

Broken out

Full

Quarter

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

Water and gas

Gas and soil

Soil and waste

Water and steam

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

Layer set

Sheet number

All of these

Line type

20. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

Window style

All of these

Roof pitch

Siding

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

Standard piping

Double-line

Single-line

Centerline piping

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

Removed section

Revolved section

Broken-out section

Half section

23. The site plan illustrates _________.

Where the house sits on the property

The floor plan

The roof plan

Where the garage and driveway are located

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

Leader

Center

Extension

Dimension

25. 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

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

Half section

Quarter section

Symmetric section

Full section

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

None of these

Size of the sheet

Designer's intent

Scale factor

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

External thread

Major diameter thread

Internal thread

Basic thread

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

Broken out

Whole

Half

Revolved

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

Insure that Ortho is on

Read the coordinate position on the Dynamic Readout

Pull the line from away from the starting point very carefully

Enter 3 for the length of the line

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31. 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

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

Half section

Removed section

Quarter section

Revolved section

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

Engineering change orders

Development plans

Product proposals

Document reviews

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

Explode

Offset

None of these

Copy

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

Basic size

Dimensioned size

Actual size

Production size

36. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Feet and inches

Feet only

Even numbers

Inches only

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

Computer-aided prototyping

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided manufacturing

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

Paper space

The PDF file

The Finished plot

Model space

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

Dashed

Phantom

Center

Hidden

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

Attach

Form

Add

Union

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

Isometric

All of the above

Mechanical

Architectural working

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

Architectural

Fractional

Metric

Decimal

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

All of these

Roof overhangs

Finished floor elevations

Roof pitch angles

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

1 : 4

2 : 1

1 : 2

1 : 1

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