Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

Bolts

All fasteners

Rivets

Thin parts

2. The site plan illustrates _________.

Where the house sits on the property

The roof plan

Where the garage and driveway are located

The floor plan

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

Full

Half

Quarter

Broken out

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

Major diameter

Thread pitch

Series of thread

Lead

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

Hidden

Center

Dashed

Phantom

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

Floor plan

Elevations

Foundation

Building section

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

Quarter section

Symmetric section

Full section

Half section

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

Crest

Pitch

Root

Lead

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

Single-line

Double-line

Standard piping

Centerline piping

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

Publicly funded

Residential

Commercial

Aerospace

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

Line

Ellipse

Circle

Polyline

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

Roof overhang

Sidewalk

None of the above

Plumbing drain lines

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

Line type

All of these

Layer set

Sheet number

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

Transverse

Angular

Straight

Filleted

15. 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

16. 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

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

Floor plan

Site plan

All of these

Foundation

18. 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

19. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Even numbers

Inches only

Feet only

Feet and inches

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

Center line

Dimension line

Poly line

Hatch line

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

Scale factor

None of these

Size of the sheet

Designer's intent

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

See the entire bounding area to hatch

Set the layer to Defpoints

Set Ortho on

Turn ISO grid off

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

Attach

Add

Form

Union

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

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided prototyping

Computer-aided engineering

25. 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

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

Baseline and linear

Baseline and continuous

Quick dim and linear

Linear and continuous

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

Mechanical

All of the above

Isometric

Architectural working

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

Dimensioned size

Actual size

Production size

Basic size

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

Soil and waste

Water and steam

Water and gas

Gas and soil

30. 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

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

Half section

Removed section

Revolved section

Broken-out section

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

Extension

Leader

Center

Dimension

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

Model space

The PDF file

Paper space

The Finished plot

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

Center line

Zero

Hatch

Hidden line

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

Quarter section

Half section

Revolved section

Removed section

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

X-axis

Y-axis

Z-axis

All of these

37. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

Siding

Window style

All of these

Roof pitch

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

Broken out

Half

Whole

All of these

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

Internal thread

External thread

Major diameter thread

Basic thread

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

Roof overhangs

Roof pitch angles

Finished floor elevations

All of these

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

Document reviews

Product proposals

Development plans

Engineering change orders

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

Decimal

Metric

Fractional

Architectural

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

Door openings and walls

All of these

Centers of cabinets

Windows

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

1 : 4

1 : 2

2 : 1

1 : 1

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