Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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1. The site plan illustrates _________.

Where the garage and driveway are located

The floor plan

Where the house sits on the property

The roof plan

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

Insure that Ortho is on

Enter 3 for the length of the line

Pull the line from away from the starting point very carefully

Read the coordinate position on the Dynamic Readout

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

All of these

Line type

Sheet number

Layer set

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

Zero

Hatch

Center line

Hidden line

5. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

All of these

Window style

Roof pitch

Siding

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

Linear and continuous

Baseline and continuous

Quick dim and linear

Baseline and linear

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

Select a different text style

Control the accuracy of the drawing

Choose various line types

Produce a visible grid system

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

Offset

Copy

None of these

Explode

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

Fused deposition modeling

Stereo lithography apparatus

Solid ground curing

Selective laser sintering

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

Roof pitch angles

Finished floor elevations

Roof overhangs

All of these

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

Site plan

Foundation

Floor plan

All of these

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

Center

Phantom

Dashed

Hidden

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

Product proposals

Engineering change orders

Development plans

Document reviews

14. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Feet only

Feet and inches

Even numbers

Inches only

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

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided prototyping

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

1 : 2

1 : 4

2 : 1

1 : 1

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

Elevations

Foundation

Floor plan

Building section

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

Poly line

Dimension line

Center line

Hatch line

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

Quarter section

Half section

Revolved section

Removed section

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

Architectural

Decimal

Fractional

Metric

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

Basic thread

Internal thread

Major diameter thread

External thread

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

Architectural working

Isometric

Mechanical

All of the above

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

Plumbing drain lines

Roof overhang

Sidewalk

None of the above

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

Center

Dimension

Leader

Extension

25. 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

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

Whole

Broken out

All of these

Half

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

All of these

Y-axis

Z-axis

X-axis

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

Model space

Paper space

The Finished plot

The PDF file

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

Residential

Aerospace

Publicly funded

Commercial

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

Scale factor

None of these

Size of the sheet

Designer's intent

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

Union

Add

Attach

Form

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

Single-line

Standard piping

Centerline piping

Double-line

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

Half section

Revolved section

Broken-out section

Removed section

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

All of these

Centers of cabinets

Windows

Door openings and walls

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

Half

Quarter

Broken out

Full

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

Series of thread

Lead

Major diameter

Thread pitch

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

Bolts

Rivets

All fasteners

Thin parts

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

Pitch

Crest

Lead

Root

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

Dimensioned size

Actual size

Basic size

Production size

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

Line

Polyline

Ellipse

Circle

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

Angular

Filleted

Straight

Transverse

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

Water and steam

Gas and soil

Soil and waste

Water and gas

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

Set the layer to Defpoints

Set Ortho on

See the entire bounding area to hatch

Turn ISO grid off

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

Quarter section

Half section

Symmetric section

Full section

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