Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

1 : 1

2 : 1

1 : 2

1 : 4

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

Actual size

Dimensioned size

Production size

Basic size

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

Bolts

All fasteners

Rivets

Thin parts

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

Foundation

Floor plan

Elevations

Building section

5. The site plan illustrates _________.

The roof plan

Where the garage and driveway are located

Where the house sits on the property

The floor plan

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

Thread pitch

Series of thread

Lead

Major diameter

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

Line type

Layer set

Sheet number

All of these

8. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Inches only

Even numbers

Feet and inches

Feet only

9. 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

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

Roof overhangs

Roof pitch angles

All of these

Finished floor elevations

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

Metric

Decimal

Architectural

Fractional

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

Filleted

Straight

Angular

Transverse

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

All of these

Site plan

Floor plan

Foundation

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

Phantom

Center

Dashed

Hidden

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

Single-line

Centerline piping

Double-line

Standard piping

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

Quarter section

Revolved section

Half section

Removed section

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

Hidden line

Center line

Hatch

Zero

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

Architectural working

All of the above

Isometric

Mechanical

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

Leader

Extension

Dimension

Center

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

Half

Revolved

Whole

Broken out

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

None of these

Designer's intent

Scale factor

Size of the sheet

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

Soil and waste

Gas and soil

Water and gas

Water and steam

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

Door openings and walls

All of these

Centers of cabinets

Windows

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

The PDF file

Model space

Paper space

The Finished plot

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

Produce a visible grid system

Control the accuracy of the drawing

Choose various line types

Select a different text style

26. 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

Read the coordinate position on the Dynamic Readout

Pull the line from away from the starting point very carefully

Insure that Ortho is on

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

Crest

Lead

Root

Pitch

28. 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

Turn ISO grid off

Set Ortho on

Set the layer to Defpoints

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

Center line

Hatch line

Dimension line

Poly line

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

Baseline and linear

Linear and continuous

Quick dim and linear

Baseline and continuous

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

Stereo lithography apparatus

Solid ground curing

Selective laser sintering

Fused deposition modeling

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

Commercial

Publicly funded

Residential

Aerospace

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

Major diameter thread

Basic thread

External thread

Internal thread

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

Full

Half

Quarter

Broken out

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

Revolved section

Removed section

Broken-out section

Half section

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

Computer-aided prototyping

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided manufacturing

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

X-axis

All of these

Y-axis

Z-axis

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

Sidewalk

Plumbing drain lines

None of the above

Roof overhang

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

All of these

Half

Whole

Broken out

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

Add

Form

Union

Attach

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

Polyline

Circle

Line

Ellipse

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

Half section

Full section

Symmetric section

Quarter section

43. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

Window style

Roof pitch

Siding

All of these

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

Engineering change orders

Development plans

Product proposals

Document reviews

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