Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

Center

Leader

Dimension

Extension

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

Windows

Centers of cabinets

All of these

Door openings and walls

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

Production size

Actual size

Basic size

Dimensioned size

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

Roof overhang

None of the above

Plumbing drain lines

Sidewalk

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

Elevations

Building section

Foundation

Floor plan

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

Fractional

Decimal

Architectural

Metric

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

Line

Polyline

Circle

Ellipse

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

Choose various line types

Produce a visible grid system

Select a different text style

Control the accuracy of the drawing

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

Half section

Quarter section

Full section

Symmetric section

10. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

All of these

Siding

Window style

Roof pitch

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

Straight

Transverse

Angular

Filleted

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

Z-axis

All of these

X-axis

Y-axis

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

Double-line

Single-line

Centerline piping

Standard piping

14. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Feet and inches

Even numbers

Inches only

Feet only

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

Broken-out section

Revolved section

Half section

Removed section

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

Hatch line

Poly line

Center line

Dimension line

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

Development plans

Product proposals

Engineering change orders

Document reviews

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

Rivets

Thin parts

All fasteners

Bolts

19. The site plan illustrates _________.

Where the garage and driveway are located

Where the house sits on the property

The floor plan

The roof plan

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

Baseline and linear

Baseline and continuous

Linear and continuous

Quick dim and linear

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

Layer set

Sheet number

Line type

All of these

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

Fused deposition modeling

Solid ground curing

Stereo lithography apparatus

Selective laser sintering

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

Scale factor

None of these

Size of the sheet

Designer's intent

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

1 : 2

2 : 1

1 : 4

1 : 1

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

Mechanical

Isometric

Architectural working

All of the above

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

Lead

Major diameter

Thread pitch

Series of thread

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

Zero

Center line

Hatch

Hidden line

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

Model space

The Finished plot

Paper space

The PDF file

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

None of these

Explode

Copy

Offset

30. 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

Pull the line from away from the starting point very carefully

Read the coordinate position on the Dynamic Readout

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31. 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

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

Root

Pitch

Lead

Crest

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

Gas and soil

Soil and waste

Water and gas

Water and steam

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

Hidden

Center

Dashed

Phantom

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

Add

Form

Attach

Union

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

Publicly funded

Residential

Aerospace

Commercial

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

Whole

Broken out

Revolved

Half

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

Roof pitch angles

Roof overhangs

Finished floor elevations

All of these

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

Turn ISO grid off

Set the layer to Defpoints

Set Ortho on

See the entire bounding area to hatch

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

Half section

Revolved section

Removed section

Quarter section

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

Foundation

Floor plan

All of these

Site plan

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

External thread

Internal thread

Basic thread

Major diameter thread

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

Quarter

Half

Full

Broken out

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

All of these

Half

Whole

Broken out

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