Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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1. 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

Pull the line from away from the starting point very carefully

Enter 3 for the length of the line

Insure that Ortho is on

2. 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

3. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

Window style

All of these

Siding

Roof pitch

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

Filleted

Straight

Transverse

Angular

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

Decimal

Fractional

Metric

Architectural

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

Computer-aided prototyping

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided engineering

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

Line type

All of these

Sheet number

Layer set

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

Engineering change orders

Product proposals

Document reviews

Development plans

9. 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

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

Architectural working

Mechanical

Isometric

All of the above

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

Basic size

Actual size

Dimensioned size

Production size

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

1 : 4

1 : 1

2 : 1

1 : 2

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

Building section

Elevations

Foundation

Floor plan

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

Set the layer to Defpoints

Set Ortho on

See the entire bounding area to hatch

Turn ISO grid off

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

Broken out

All of these

Whole

Half

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

Plumbing drain lines

Roof overhang

Sidewalk

None of the above

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

Union

Form

Add

Attach

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

Circle

Line

Ellipse

Polyline

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

Windows

All of these

Centers of cabinets

Door openings and walls

20. 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

Whole

Half

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

Single-line

Standard piping

Double-line

Centerline piping

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

Offset

None of these

Copy

Explode

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

Revolved section

Half section

Removed section

Quarter section

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

Finished floor elevations

Roof pitch angles

Roof overhangs

All of these

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

Half section

Broken-out section

Removed section

Revolved section

26. The site plan illustrates _________.

The floor plan

Where the house sits on the property

Where the garage and driveway are located

The roof plan

27. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Even numbers

Inches only

Feet only

Feet and inches

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

Quarter

Half

Broken out

Full

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

Hidden line

Zero

Center line

Hatch

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

Major diameter

Thread pitch

Series of thread

Lead

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

Internal thread

Basic thread

External thread

Major diameter thread

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

Quarter section

Half section

Symmetric section

Full section

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

Center

Leader

Extension

Dimension

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

Root

Crest

Lead

Pitch

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

Commercial

Residential

Publicly funded

Aerospace

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

Soil and waste

Gas and soil

Water and gas

Water and steam

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

All of these

Floor plan

Foundation

Site plan

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

Linear and continuous

Baseline and linear

Baseline and continuous

Quick dim and linear

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

Model space

The Finished plot

Paper space

The PDF file

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

Thin parts

Bolts

Rivets

All fasteners

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

Scale factor

Size of the sheet

None of these

Designer's intent

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

Z-axis

X-axis

Y-axis

All of these

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

Fused deposition modeling

Selective laser sintering

Stereo lithography apparatus

Solid ground curing

44. 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

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