Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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1. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

All of these

Roof pitch

Window style

Siding

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

Fused deposition modeling

Selective laser sintering

Solid ground curing

Stereo lithography apparatus

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

Size of the sheet

Designer's intent

Scale factor

None of these

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

Root

Pitch

Lead

Crest

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

Architectural working

Isometric

All of the above

Mechanical

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

Floor plan

All of these

Site plan

Foundation

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

Half section

Symmetric section

Quarter section

Full section

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

Form

Add

Attach

Union

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

Building section

Elevations

Floor plan

Foundation

10. 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

Turn ISO grid off

See the entire bounding area to hatch

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

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided prototyping

Computer-aided manufacturing

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

Whole

Broken out

Revolved

Half

13. 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

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

Quick dim and linear

Baseline and linear

Linear and continuous

Baseline and continuous

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

Fractional

Architectural

Metric

Decimal

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

Document reviews

Engineering change orders

Development plans

Product proposals

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

External thread

Major diameter thread

Basic thread

Internal thread

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

Control the accuracy of the drawing

Produce a visible grid system

Choose various line types

Select a different text style

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

Half

All of these

Broken out

Whole

20. Drafters should use a ________ in a section view of a mechanical part that includes the cylindrical view of a threaded hole.

Hatch line

Poly line

Dimension line

Center line

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

Water and gas

Water and steam

Gas and soil

Soil and waste

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

Half section

Quarter section

Revolved section

Removed section

23. 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

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

Transverse

Straight

Angular

Filleted

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

Layer set

Sheet number

Line type

All of these

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

Single-line

Standard piping

Centerline piping

Double-line

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

Polyline

Line

Circle

Ellipse

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

Series of thread

Major diameter

Thread pitch

Lead

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

Center

Extension

Leader

Dimension

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

All of these

Y-axis

X-axis

Z-axis

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

1 : 2

1 : 1

2 : 1

1 : 4

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

Dimensioned size

Basic size

Production size

Actual size

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

Half

Broken out

Full

Quarter

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

The PDF file

The Finished plot

Paper space

Model space

35. 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

Explode

Copy

36. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Feet and inches

Feet only

Even numbers

Inches only

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

All fasteners

Bolts

Thin parts

Rivets

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

Plumbing drain lines

Sidewalk

None of the above

Roof overhang

39. The site plan illustrates _________.

Where the house sits on the property

The roof plan

The floor plan

Where the garage and driveway are located

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

Commercial

Publicly funded

Residential

Aerospace

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

Phantom

Center

Dashed

Hidden

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

Roof pitch angles

Roof overhangs

Finished floor elevations

All of these

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

Enter 3 for the length of the line

Insure that Ortho is on

Read the coordinate position on the Dynamic Readout

Pull the line from away from the starting point very carefully

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

Broken-out section

Half section

Revolved section

Removed section

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