Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

Residential

Publicly funded

Commercial

Aerospace

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

Add

Form

Attach

Union

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

Metric

Decimal

Fractional

Architectural

4. 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

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

Production size

Dimensioned size

Actual size

Basic size

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

None of these

Copy

Explode

Offset

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

Foundation

Building section

Elevations

Floor plan

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

1 : 2

1 : 4

2 : 1

1 : 1

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

Baseline and linear

Baseline and continuous

Linear and continuous

Quick dim and linear

10. The site plan illustrates _________.

The floor plan

Where the house sits on the property

Where the garage and driveway are located

The roof plan

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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.

Dashed

Hidden

Center

Phantom

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

Product proposals

Engineering change orders

Development plans

Document reviews

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

Sidewalk

None of the above

Plumbing drain lines

Roof overhang

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

Fused deposition modeling

Stereo lithography apparatus

Solid ground curing

Selective laser sintering

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

Angular

Filleted

Transverse

Straight

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

Thin parts

All fasteners

Rivets

Bolts

17. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

Siding

Roof pitch

All of these

Window style

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

Broken-out section

Revolved section

Removed section

Half section

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

Y-axis

All of these

Z-axis

X-axis

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

Half

Whole

Revolved

Broken out

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

Mechanical

Architectural working

Isometric

All of the above

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

Thread pitch

Series of thread

Lead

Major diameter

23. 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

See the entire bounding area to hatch

Set Ortho on

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

None of these

Scale factor

Size of the sheet

Designer's intent

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

Hatch

Center line

Hidden line

Zero

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

Major diameter thread

Internal thread

External thread

Basic thread

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

Center

Dimension

Extension

Leader

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

Produce a visible grid system

Choose various line types

Select a different text style

Control the accuracy of the drawing

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

Paper space

The PDF file

The Finished plot

Model space

30. 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

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

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided prototyping

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided engineering

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

Lead

Pitch

Root

Crest

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

Line

Ellipse

Polyline

Circle

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

Quarter section

Half section

Full section

Symmetric section

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

All of these

Half

Broken out

Whole

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

Finished floor elevations

Roof pitch angles

Roof overhangs

All of these

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

Layer set

Sheet number

All of these

Line type

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

Centers of cabinets

All of these

Door openings and walls

Windows

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

Floor plan

All of these

Foundation

Site plan

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

Standard piping

Centerline piping

Single-line

Double-line

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41. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Feet only

Even numbers

Feet and inches

Inches only

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

Broken out

Full

Quarter

Half

43. 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

Enter 3 for the length of the line

Pull the line from away from the starting point very carefully

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

Quarter section

Half section

Removed section

Revolved section

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