Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

Roof overhangs

All of these

Roof pitch angles

Finished floor elevations

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

Set Ortho on

Set the layer to Defpoints

Turn ISO grid off

See the entire bounding area to hatch

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

Line

Circle

Ellipse

Polyline

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

All of these

Y-axis

X-axis

Z-axis

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

Series of thread

Lead

Major diameter

Thread pitch

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

Fractional

Decimal

Architectural

Metric

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

Size of the sheet

None of these

Scale factor

Designer's intent

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

Broken out

Half

All of these

Whole

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

Gas and soil

Soil and waste

Water and steam

Water and gas

10. The site plan illustrates _________.

Where the house sits on the property

The roof plan

Where the garage and driveway are located

The floor plan

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

Straight

Angular

Filleted

Transverse

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

Paper space

The PDF file

Model space

The Finished plot

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

Revolved

Whole

Broken out

Half

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

Building section

Elevations

Floor plan

Foundation

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

Center

Dashed

Phantom

Hidden

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

Double-line

Centerline piping

Standard piping

Single-line

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

Line type

All of these

Sheet number

Layer set

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

Quick dim and linear

Baseline and continuous

Baseline and linear

Linear and continuous

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

Revolved section

Broken-out section

Half section

Removed section

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

Extension

Center

Dimension

Leader

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21. 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

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

Production size

Basic size

Actual size

Dimensioned size

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

1 : 4

1 : 2

1 : 1

2 : 1

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

Commercial

Residential

Publicly funded

Aerospace

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

All of these

Site plan

Foundation

Floor plan

26. 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

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

Copy

None of these

Offset

Explode

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

Product proposals

Development plans

Document reviews

Engineering change orders

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

Selective laser sintering

Stereo lithography apparatus

Fused deposition modeling

Solid ground curing

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

Roof overhang

None of the above

Sidewalk

Plumbing drain lines

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

Full

Broken out

Quarter

Half

32. 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

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

Choose various line types

Control the accuracy of the drawing

Produce a visible grid system

Select a different text style

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

All fasteners

Thin parts

Bolts

Rivets

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

Insure that Ortho is on

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

36. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

All of these

Window style

Roof pitch

Siding

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

Mechanical

All of the above

Architectural working

Isometric

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

Half section

Revolved section

Removed section

Quarter section

39. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Feet only

Inches only

Even numbers

Feet and inches

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

Dimension line

Hatch line

Center line

Poly line

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

Attach

Add

Union

Form

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

Quarter section

Full section

Symmetric section

Half section

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

Basic thread

Internal thread

Major diameter thread

External thread

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

Root

Crest

Pitch

Lead

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