Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

Mechanical

Isometric

Architectural working

All of the above

2. The site plan illustrates _________.

Where the garage and driveway are located

The roof plan

The floor plan

Where the house sits on the property

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

Selective laser sintering

Solid ground curing

Stereo lithography apparatus

Fused deposition modeling

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

Y-axis

Z-axis

X-axis

All of these

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

Water and steam

Soil and waste

Water and gas

Gas and soil

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

Half section

Revolved section

Removed section

Broken-out section

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

Produce a visible grid system

Control the accuracy of the drawing

Select a different text style

Choose various line types

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

Production size

Dimensioned size

Basic size

Actual size

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

Extension

Center

Dimension

Leader

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

Half

Whole

Broken out

All of these

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11. 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

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

Sheet number

Layer set

All of these

Line type

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

Roof pitch angles

Finished floor elevations

Roof overhangs

All of these

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

Centers of cabinets

Windows

Door openings and walls

All of these

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

Form

Attach

Union

Add

16. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

All of these

Window style

Siding

Roof pitch

17. 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

Insure that Ortho is on

Enter 3 for the length of the line

Read the coordinate position on the Dynamic Readout

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

Root

Lead

Pitch

Crest

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

Major diameter

Series of thread

Lead

Thread pitch

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

Decimal

Metric

Architectural

Fractional

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

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided prototyping

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided engineering

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

Basic thread

External thread

Major diameter thread

Internal thread

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

Full section

Half section

Quarter section

Symmetric section

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

Half

Quarter

Full

Broken out

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

The PDF file

The Finished plot

Paper space

Model space

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

Set the layer to Defpoints

See the entire bounding area to hatch

Turn ISO grid off

Set Ortho on

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

Foundation

Elevations

Building section

Floor plan

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

Double-line

Centerline piping

Standard piping

Single-line

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

Angular

Filleted

Straight

Transverse

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

Floor plan

Site plan

All of these

Foundation

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

Scale factor

None of these

Size of the sheet

Designer's intent

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

Zero

Center line

Hidden line

Hatch

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

Revolved

Whole

Broken out

Half

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

Commercial

Residential

Aerospace

Publicly funded

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

Sidewalk

Roof overhang

Plumbing drain lines

None of the above

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

Revolved section

Half section

Quarter section

Removed section

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

All fasteners

Rivets

Bolts

Thin parts

38. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Even numbers

Feet only

Feet and inches

Inches only

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

1 : 2

1 : 4

1 : 1

2 : 1

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

Offset

Explode

None of these

Copy

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

Ellipse

Line

Polyline

Circle

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

Development plans

Product proposals

Document reviews

Engineering change orders

44. 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

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