Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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1. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

All of these

Roof pitch

Window style

Siding

2. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Feet and inches

Inches only

Even numbers

Feet only

3. 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

Read the coordinate position on the Dynamic Readout

Enter 3 for the length of the line

Insure that Ortho is on

4. 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

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

Dashed

Phantom

Center

Hidden

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

Lead

Crest

Pitch

Root

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

Quarter

Full

Broken out

Half

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

Mechanical

Isometric

Architectural working

All of the above

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

Line type

Sheet number

All of these

Layer set

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

Rivets

Thin parts

All fasteners

Bolts

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

Roof pitch angles

Finished floor elevations

Roof overhangs

All of these

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

Double-line

Centerline piping

Single-line

Standard piping

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

Solid ground curing

Fused deposition modeling

Selective laser sintering

Stereo lithography apparatus

14. 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

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

The Finished plot

Paper space

Model space

The PDF file

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

None of the above

Sidewalk

Plumbing drain lines

Roof overhang

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

Control the accuracy of the drawing

Choose various line types

Select a different text style

Produce a visible grid system

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

Half

Broken out

Revolved

Whole

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

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided prototyping

Computer-aided manufacturing

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

Floor plan

Elevations

Building section

Foundation

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21. The site plan illustrates _________.

The floor plan

Where the garage and driveway are located

Where the house sits on the property

The roof plan

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

Set Ortho on

See the entire bounding area to hatch

Set the layer to Defpoints

Turn ISO grid off

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

Actual size

Dimensioned size

Basic size

Production size

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

Linear and continuous

Quick dim and linear

Baseline and continuous

Baseline and linear

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

Half section

Quarter section

Revolved section

Removed section

26. 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

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

All of these

Windows

Centers of cabinets

Door openings and walls

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

Attach

Add

Form

Union

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

Fractional

Metric

Architectural

Decimal

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

Designer's intent

None of these

Size of the sheet

Scale factor

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

Straight

Filleted

Transverse

Angular

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

Engineering change orders

Document reviews

Product proposals

Development plans

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

Symmetric section

Half section

Full section

Quarter section

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

Line

Circle

Polyline

Ellipse

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

Dimension

Leader

Center

Extension

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

External thread

Internal thread

Basic thread

Major diameter thread

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

Thread pitch

Major diameter

Series of thread

Lead

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

Floor plan

Foundation

All of these

Site plan

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

Removed section

Half section

Broken-out section

Revolved section

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

All of these

Broken out

Whole

Half

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41. 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

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

Z-axis

All of these

Y-axis

X-axis

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

Publicly funded

Aerospace

Residential

Commercial

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

2 : 1

1 : 4

1 : 1

1 : 2

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