Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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1. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

Roof pitch

Window style

Siding

All of these

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

Metric

Fractional

Architectural

Decimal

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

Broken-out section

Removed section

Revolved section

Half section

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

Production size

Dimensioned size

Actual size

Basic size

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

Angular

Straight

Transverse

Filleted

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

Copy

Explode

Offset

None of these

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

Quarter section

Removed section

Half section

Revolved section

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

Add

Attach

Union

Form

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

Full

Broken out

Half

Quarter

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

External thread

Internal thread

Major diameter thread

Basic thread

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11. 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

Insure that Ortho is on

Pull the line from away from the starting point very carefully

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

All fasteners

Bolts

Rivets

Thin parts

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

Water and steam

Gas and soil

Soil and waste

Water and gas

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

1 : 2

2 : 1

1 : 4

1 : 1

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

None of these

Scale factor

Designer's intent

Size of the sheet

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

Select a different text style

Produce a visible grid system

Control the accuracy of the drawing

Choose various line types

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

Centers of cabinets

Windows

Door openings and walls

All of these

18. 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

Set Ortho on

Turn ISO grid off

Set the layer to Defpoints

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

All of these

Foundation

Site plan

Floor plan

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

The Finished plot

The PDF file

Paper space

Model space

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21. 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

22. The site plan illustrates _________.

The roof plan

The floor plan

Where the garage and driveway are located

Where the house sits on the property

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

Broken out

Whole

All of these

Half

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

Architectural working

Mechanical

Isometric

All of the above

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

Dashed

Hidden

Center

Phantom

26. 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

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

Layer set

Line type

Sheet number

All of these

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

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided prototyping

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

Pitch

Root

Crest

Lead

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

Commercial

Residential

Publicly funded

Aerospace

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

Half

Whole

Broken out

Revolved

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

Ellipse

Line

Circle

Polyline

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

Document reviews

Engineering change orders

Development plans

Product proposals

34. 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

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

Foundation

Building section

Floor plan

Elevations

36. 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

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

Standard piping

Double-line

Single-line

Centerline piping

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

Baseline and linear

Quick dim and linear

Linear and continuous

Baseline and continuous

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

X-axis

Z-axis

Y-axis

All of these

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

Full section

Half section

Quarter section

Symmetric section

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

Roof pitch angles

Roof overhangs

Finished floor elevations

All of these

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

Dimension

Center

Extension

Leader

43. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Even numbers

Feet only

Inches only

Feet and inches

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

Major diameter

Lead

Thread pitch

Series of thread

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