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:

Filleted

Transverse

Straight

Angular

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

All of the above

Architectural working

Mechanical

Isometric

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

Broken-out section

Revolved section

Half section

Removed section

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

Major diameter

Thread pitch

Lead

Series of thread

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

Half

Revolved

Broken out

Whole

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

Leader

Extension

Dimension

Center

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

Soil and waste

Water and steam

Gas and soil

Water and gas

8. 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

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

Select a different text style

Control the accuracy of the drawing

Produce a visible grid system

Choose various line types

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

Floor plan

Elevations

Foundation

Building section

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

Standard piping

Single-line

Centerline piping

Double-line

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

Attach

Form

Add

Union

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

Enter 3 for the length of the line

Insure that Ortho is on

Read the coordinate position on the Dynamic Readout

Pull the line from away from the starting point very carefully

14. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Feet and inches

Inches only

Even numbers

Feet only

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

Symmetric section

Quarter section

Full section

Half section

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

Major diameter thread

External thread

Basic thread

Internal thread

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

Paper space

The Finished plot

The PDF file

Model space

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

Basic size

Production size

Dimensioned size

Actual size

19. 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

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

Baseline and continuous

Baseline and linear

Quick dim and linear

Linear and continuous

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

Aerospace

Commercial

Residential

Publicly funded

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

Solid ground curing

Fused deposition modeling

Stereo lithography apparatus

Selective laser sintering

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

Revolved section

Half section

Removed section

Quarter section

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

Centers of cabinets

Door openings and walls

Windows

All of these

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

Line

Polyline

Ellipse

Circle

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

Half

Broken out

Whole

All of these

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

Broken out

Quarter

Half

Full

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

Metric

Decimal

Architectural

Fractional

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

Lead

Crest

Pitch

Root

30. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

Siding

Window style

Roof pitch

All of these

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

Floor plan

Site plan

Foundation

All of these

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

Hatch

Zero

Center line

Hidden line

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

Designer's intent

Size of the sheet

Scale factor

None of these

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

Roof pitch angles

Roof overhangs

Finished floor elevations

All of these

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

Offset

Copy

Explode

None of these

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

Hidden

Phantom

Dashed

Center

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

Sidewalk

None of the above

Roof overhang

Plumbing drain lines

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

Rivets

Thin parts

Bolts

All fasteners

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

Engineering change orders

Document reviews

Development plans

Product proposals

40. The site plan illustrates _________.

Where the garage and driveway are located

Where the house sits on the property

The floor plan

The roof plan

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

X-axis

Y-axis

All of these

Z-axis

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

Turn ISO grid off

Set Ortho on

Set the layer to Defpoints

See the entire bounding area to hatch

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

1 : 1

2 : 1

1 : 4

1 : 2

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

Layer set

Sheet number

Line type

All of these

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