Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

Straight

Transverse

Angular

Filleted

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

Line type

Sheet number

All of these

Layer set

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

Decimal

Fractional

Architectural

Metric

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

Basic thread

External thread

Internal thread

Major diameter thread

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

Whole

Half

Broken out

Revolved

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

Dashed

Hidden

Phantom

Center

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

Gas and soil

Water and gas

Soil and waste

Water and steam

8. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

All of these

Siding

Roof pitch

Window style

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

Root

Pitch

Lead

Crest

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

Single-line

Standard piping

Centerline piping

Double-line

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

Selective laser sintering

Fused deposition modeling

Solid ground curing

Stereo lithography apparatus

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

Removed section

Quarter section

Half section

Revolved section

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

Model space

The PDF file

Paper space

The Finished plot

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

Baseline and continuous

Baseline and linear

Linear and continuous

Quick dim and linear

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

Zero

Hidden line

Hatch

Center line

16. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Inches only

Even numbers

Feet only

Feet and inches

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

Thread pitch

Lead

Series of thread

Major diameter

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

Production size

Basic size

Actual size

Dimensioned size

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

Residential

Commercial

Aerospace

Publicly funded

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

Half

Quarter

Broken out

Full

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

Computer-aided prototyping

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided design

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

All of these

Half

Whole

Broken out

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

Circle

Polyline

Line

Ellipse

24. 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

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

Floor plan

All of these

Foundation

Site plan

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

Full section

Half section

Quarter section

Symmetric section

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

Roof overhang

Plumbing drain lines

None of the above

Sidewalk

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

Isometric

Architectural working

Mechanical

All of the above

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

None of these

Size of the sheet

Designer's intent

Scale factor

30. 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

Insure that Ortho is on

Read the coordinate position on the Dynamic Readout

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

Choose various line types

Produce a visible grid system

Select a different text style

Control the accuracy of the drawing

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

Center

Dimension

Extension

Leader

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

Union

Add

Attach

Form

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

Door openings and walls

Windows

Centers of cabinets

All of these

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

Development plans

Product proposals

Document reviews

Engineering change orders

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

Elevations

Building section

Foundation

Floor plan

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

2 : 1

1 : 2

1 : 1

1 : 4

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

All of these

Roof overhangs

Roof pitch angles

Finished floor elevations

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

Dimension line

Poly line

Center line

Hatch line

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

X-axis

All of these

Y-axis

Z-axis

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

Removed section

Half section

Revolved section

Broken-out section

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

All fasteners

Thin parts

Bolts

Rivets

43. The site plan illustrates _________.

Where the garage and driveway are located

The floor plan

The roof plan

Where the house sits on the property

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

Copy

Offset

Explode

None of these

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