Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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1. 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

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

Major diameter thread

Internal thread

Basic thread

External thread

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

Basic size

Actual size

Production size

Dimensioned size

4. The site plan illustrates _________.

Where the garage and driveway are located

The floor plan

Where the house sits on the property

The roof plan

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

1 : 4

1 : 2

2 : 1

1 : 1

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

Product proposals

Engineering change orders

Document reviews

Development plans

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

Fractional

Architectural

Decimal

Metric

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

Centerline piping

Single-line

Standard piping

Double-line

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

Water and gas

Soil and waste

Gas and soil

Water and steam

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

All of these

Centers of cabinets

Door openings and walls

Windows

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

Revolved section

Removed section

Half section

Quarter section

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

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided prototyping

Computer-aided engineering

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

Center line

Zero

Hidden line

Hatch

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

Dimension

Leader

Extension

Center

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

Thread pitch

Series of thread

Major diameter

Lead

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

Site plan

Foundation

Floor plan

All of these

17. 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

Copy

Explode

Offset

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

Filleted

Angular

Transverse

Straight

19. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Even numbers

Feet and inches

Feet only

Inches only

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

Quick dim and linear

Linear and continuous

Baseline and linear

Baseline and continuous

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

Symmetric section

Full section

Half section

Quarter section

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

Publicly funded

Residential

Commercial

Aerospace

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

Half

Revolved

Whole

Broken out

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

Crest

Lead

Root

Pitch

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

Form

Add

Union

Attach

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

Architectural working

Mechanical

Isometric

All of the above

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

Roof overhangs

Roof pitch angles

All of these

Finished floor elevations

28. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

All of these

Roof pitch

Window style

Siding

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

All of these

Sheet number

Line type

Layer set

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

Select a different text style

Choose various line types

Produce a visible grid system

Control the accuracy of the drawing

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

Set Ortho on

Turn ISO grid off

See the entire bounding area to hatch

Set the layer to Defpoints

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

Model space

Paper space

The Finished plot

The PDF file

33. 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

Dimension line

Center line

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

Roof overhang

Sidewalk

None of the above

Plumbing drain lines

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

Quarter

Full

Broken out

Half

36. 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

Enter 3 for the length of the line

Read the coordinate position on the Dynamic Readout

Insure that Ortho is on

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

Broken-out section

Revolved section

Half section

Removed section

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

Floor plan

Building section

Elevations

Foundation

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

All of these

Z-axis

Y-axis

X-axis

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

Whole

Half

Broken out

All of these

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

Scale factor

None of these

Size of the sheet

Designer's intent

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

Bolts

Rivets

Thin parts

All fasteners

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

Circle

Line

Ellipse

Polyline

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

Selective laser sintering

Stereo lithography apparatus

Solid ground curing

Fused deposition modeling

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