Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

Roof overhangs

Roof pitch angles

Finished floor elevations

All of these

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

Major diameter

Lead

Thread pitch

Series of thread

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

Center line

Dimension line

Poly line

Hatch line

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

Scale factor

Size of the sheet

None of these

Designer's intent

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

Floor plan

Site plan

All of these

Foundation

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

Lead

Pitch

Root

Crest

7. The site plan illustrates _________.

The roof plan

Where the house sits on the property

Where the garage and driveway are located

The floor plan

8. 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

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

Quarter

Broken out

Full

Half

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

Baseline and continuous

Baseline and linear

Linear and continuous

Quick dim and linear

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

Revolved

Half

Whole

Broken out

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

Angular

Straight

Filleted

Transverse

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

Internal thread

External thread

Major diameter thread

Basic thread

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

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided prototyping

15. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Feet and inches

Even numbers

Feet only

Inches only

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

Leader

Dimension

Extension

Center

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

Fractional

Metric

Decimal

Architectural

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

Insure that Ortho is on

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

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

Hidden line

Center line

Zero

Hatch

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

Residential

Commercial

Aerospace

Publicly funded

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

Broken-out section

Revolved section

Removed section

Half section

22. 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

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

Quarter section

Full section

Half section

Symmetric section

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

Engineering change orders

Product proposals

Document reviews

Development plans

25. 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

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

Phantom

Hidden

Center

Dashed

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

Basic size

Actual size

Production size

Dimensioned size

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

None of the above

Plumbing drain lines

Sidewalk

Roof overhang

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

Standard piping

Double-line

Centerline piping

Single-line

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

Line

Polyline

Circle

Ellipse

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31. 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

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

Removed section

Quarter section

Half section

Revolved section

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

Rivets

Bolts

All fasteners

Thin parts

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

Set the layer to Defpoints

See the entire bounding area to hatch

Turn ISO grid off

Set Ortho on

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

Attach

Form

Add

Union

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

Produce a visible grid system

Choose various line types

Select a different text style

Control the accuracy of the drawing

37. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

Roof pitch

Siding

Window style

All of these

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

The PDF file

The Finished plot

Paper space

Model space

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

Floor plan

Building section

Foundation

Elevations

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

All of these

Line type

Layer set

Sheet number

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

Half

All of these

Whole

Broken out

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

All of the above

Mechanical

Isometric

Architectural working

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

X-axis

Z-axis

All of these

Y-axis

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

1 : 4

2 : 1

1 : 2

1 : 1

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