Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

Fractional

Decimal

Metric

Architectural

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

Angular

Transverse

Straight

Filleted

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

Actual size

Production size

Dimensioned size

Basic size

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

Pitch

Root

Crest

Lead

5. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Feet only

Feet and inches

Even numbers

Inches only

6. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

Roof pitch

Window style

Siding

All of these

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

Quarter section

Revolved section

Half section

Removed section

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

Selective laser sintering

Fused deposition modeling

Solid ground curing

Stereo lithography apparatus

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

1 : 2

1 : 1

1 : 4

2 : 1

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

Water and gas

Water and steam

Soil and waste

Gas and soil

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

Publicly funded

Commercial

Aerospace

Residential

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

Double-line

Centerline piping

Standard piping

Single-line

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

Dashed

Phantom

Hidden

Center

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

Half section

Removed section

Broken-out section

Revolved section

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

Set the layer to Defpoints

Set Ortho on

Turn ISO grid off

See the entire bounding area to hatch

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

All of these

Line type

Sheet number

Layer set

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

Whole

Broken out

Half

All of these

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

Isometric

All of the above

Mechanical

Architectural working

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

Roof pitch angles

All of these

Roof overhangs

Finished floor elevations

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

Half

Full

Broken out

Quarter

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

None of the above

Plumbing drain lines

Roof overhang

Sidewalk

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

Offset

None of these

Explode

Copy

23. The site plan illustrates _________.

The floor plan

Where the house sits on the property

Where the garage and driveway are located

The roof plan

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

Major diameter

Thread pitch

Series of thread

Lead

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

Windows

Door openings and walls

Centers of cabinets

All of these

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

Center line

Poly line

Hatch line

Dimension line

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

Linear and continuous

Baseline and linear

Baseline and continuous

Quick dim and linear

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

Rivets

All fasteners

Bolts

Thin parts

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

Designer's intent

Scale factor

Size of the sheet

None of these

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

Quarter section

Half section

Full section

Symmetric section

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31. 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

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

Hatch

Hidden line

Center line

Zero

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

Center

Dimension

Leader

Extension

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

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided prototyping

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

X-axis

All of these

Z-axis

Y-axis

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

Floor plan

Site plan

Foundation

All of these

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

Basic thread

External thread

Internal thread

Major diameter thread

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

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

Insure that Ortho is on

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

Form

Add

Union

Attach

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

Elevations

Floor plan

Foundation

Building section

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

Model space

Paper space

The Finished plot

The PDF file

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

Product proposals

Development plans

Engineering change orders

Document reviews

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

Circle

Polyline

Ellipse

Line

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

Revolved

Broken out

Half

Whole

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