Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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1. The site plan illustrates _________.

Where the house sits on the property

The roof plan

The floor plan

Where the garage and driveway are located

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

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided prototyping

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

Isometric

All of the above

Mechanical

Architectural working

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

Sidewalk

Roof overhang

None of the above

Plumbing drain lines

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

Thin parts

Bolts

All fasteners

Rivets

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

All of these

Layer set

Sheet number

Line type

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

Dimensioned size

Production size

Actual size

Basic size

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

Revolved section

Removed section

Half section

Broken-out section

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

Standard piping

Centerline piping

Double-line

Single-line

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

Building section

Elevations

Floor plan

Foundation

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

Root

Pitch

Crest

Lead

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

Center line

Hidden line

Zero

Hatch

13. 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

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

All of these

Z-axis

Y-axis

X-axis

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

Major diameter

Thread pitch

Series of thread

Lead

16. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

Window style

All of these

Roof pitch

Siding

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

Full

Broken out

Half

Quarter

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

Document reviews

Development plans

Engineering change orders

Product proposals

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

Foundation

All of these

Floor plan

Site plan

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

2 : 1

1 : 4

1 : 1

1 : 2

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21. 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 Ortho on

Set the layer to Defpoints

Turn ISO grid off

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

The Finished plot

Paper space

Model space

The PDF file

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

Dimension

Leader

Center

Extension

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

Solid ground curing

Selective laser sintering

Stereo lithography apparatus

Fused deposition modeling

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

All of these

Finished floor elevations

Roof overhangs

Roof pitch angles

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

Door openings and walls

Windows

All of these

Centers of cabinets

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

All of these

Broken out

Half

Whole

28. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Feet only

Feet and inches

Inches only

Even numbers

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

Phantom

Center

Hidden

Dashed

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

Add

Attach

Union

Form

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

Ellipse

Line

Circle

Polyline

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

Explode

Copy

Offset

None of these

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

Major diameter thread

Basic thread

External thread

Internal thread

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

Angular

Filleted

Straight

Transverse

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

Pull the line from away from the starting point very carefully

Enter 3 for the length of the line

Read the coordinate position on the Dynamic Readout

Insure that Ortho is on

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

Gas and soil

Water and steam

Water and gas

Soil and waste

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

Baseline and continuous

Quick dim and linear

Linear and continuous

Baseline and linear

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

Residential

Commercial

Publicly funded

Aerospace

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

Quarter section

Revolved section

Removed section

Half section

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

Architectural

Metric

Decimal

Fractional

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

Produce a visible grid system

Select a different text style

Control the accuracy of the drawing

Choose various line types

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

Poly line

Center line

Dimension line

Hatch line

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

Size of the sheet

Scale factor

Designer's intent

None of these

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

Half section

Quarter section

Symmetric section

Full section

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