Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

Half

Broken out

Quarter

Full

2. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Feet only

Inches only

Even numbers

Feet and inches

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

Standard piping

Single-line

Centerline piping

Double-line

4. 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

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

Roof pitch angles

Finished floor elevations

Roof overhangs

All of these

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

Fractional

Decimal

Architectural

Metric

7. 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

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

Straight

Filleted

Angular

Transverse

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

Dimension line

Hatch line

10. The site plan illustrates _________.

The roof plan

Where the house sits on the property

The floor plan

Where the garage and driveway are located

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

Turn ISO grid off

See the entire bounding area to hatch

Set Ortho on

Set the layer to Defpoints

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

X-axis

Y-axis

Z-axis

All of these

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

Model space

The Finished plot

The PDF file

Paper space

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

Dimensioned size

Basic size

Production size

Actual size

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

Circle

Ellipse

Polyline

Line

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

Mechanical

Isometric

Architectural working

All of the above

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

Foundation

Site plan

All of these

Floor plan

18. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

Siding

Roof pitch

All of these

Window style

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

Union

Add

Form

Attach

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

Rivets

Thin parts

All fasteners

Bolts

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

Series of thread

Major diameter

Thread pitch

Lead

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

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided prototyping

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided engineering

23. 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

Explode

Offset

Copy

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

Half

Whole

All of these

Broken out

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

Product proposals

Document reviews

Engineering change orders

Development plans

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

Insure that Ortho is on

Pull the line from away from the starting point very carefully

Read the coordinate position on the Dynamic Readout

Enter 3 for the length of the line

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

Foundation

Floor plan

Building section

Elevations

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

Lead

Pitch

Root

Crest

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

Quarter section

Half section

Symmetric section

Full section

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

Extension

Dimension

Center

Leader

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

Internal thread

Major diameter thread

Basic thread

External thread

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

Quarter section

Removed section

Half section

Revolved section

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

Revolved section

Broken-out section

Half section

Removed section

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

Scale factor

None of these

Designer's intent

Size of the sheet

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

Stereo lithography apparatus

Selective laser sintering

Solid ground curing

Fused deposition modeling

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

2 : 1

1 : 4

1 : 2

1 : 1

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

Select a different text style

Choose various line types

Produce a visible grid system

Control the accuracy of the drawing

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

Phantom

Hidden

Center

Dashed

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

Center line

Hatch

Zero

Hidden line

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

Plumbing drain lines

None of the above

Sidewalk

Roof overhang

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

Quick dim and linear

Baseline and continuous

Linear and continuous

Baseline and linear

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

Aerospace

Commercial

Residential

Publicly funded

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

All of these

Line type

Layer set

Sheet number

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

Centers of cabinets

Door openings and walls

All of these

Windows

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