Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

Stereo lithography apparatus

Selective laser sintering

Solid ground curing

Fused deposition modeling

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

Decimal

Fractional

Metric

Architectural

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

Baseline and continuous

Linear and continuous

Quick dim and linear

Baseline and linear

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

Hidden line

Hatch

Center line

Zero

5. 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

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

Circle

Line

Ellipse

Polyline

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

Model space

The Finished plot

Paper space

The PDF file

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

Broken out

Quarter

Full

Half

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

Series of thread

Major diameter

Lead

Thread pitch

10. 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

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

Half section

Revolved section

Removed section

Quarter section

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

Building section

Floor plan

Elevations

Foundation

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

Choose various line types

Select a different text style

Produce a visible grid system

Control the accuracy of the drawing

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

Angular

Transverse

Filleted

Straight

15. The site plan illustrates _________.

Where the garage and driveway are located

The roof plan

The floor plan

Where the house sits on the property

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

Double-line

Standard piping

Centerline piping

Single-line

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

Soil and waste

Gas and soil

Water and gas

Water and steam

18. 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

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

Bolts

Thin parts

Rivets

All fasteners

20. 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

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

All of these

Site plan

Floor plan

Foundation

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

1 : 2

1 : 4

1 : 1

2 : 1

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

Explode

Offset

Copy

None of these

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

Sheet number

All of these

Line type

Layer set

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

Hatch line

Dimension line

Center line

Poly line

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

Form

Add

Union

Attach

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

Turn ISO grid off

See the entire bounding area to hatch

Set the layer to Defpoints

Set Ortho on

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

Extension

Center

Leader

Dimension

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

Major diameter thread

Internal thread

External thread

Basic thread

30. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

All of these

Roof pitch

Window style

Siding

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

Roof pitch angles

All of these

Roof overhangs

Finished floor elevations

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

All of these

Whole

Half

Broken out

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

Actual size

Dimensioned size

Production size

Basic size

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

Crest

Lead

Pitch

Root

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

Size of the sheet

Designer's intent

Scale factor

None of these

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

Quarter section

Full section

Symmetric section

Half section

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

Product proposals

Engineering change orders

Development plans

Document reviews

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

All of the above

Isometric

Mechanical

Architectural working

39. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Feet and inches

Even numbers

Feet only

Inches only

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

Publicly funded

Residential

Commercial

Aerospace

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

Broken out

Revolved

Half

Whole

42. 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

Windows

Centers of cabinets

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

All of these

X-axis

Z-axis

Y-axis

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

Broken-out section

Half section

Revolved section

Removed section

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