Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

Lead

Crest

Root

Pitch

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

Revolved

Whole

Half

Broken out

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

Model space

The Finished plot

Paper space

The PDF file

4. 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

5. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Feet and inches

Inches only

Feet only

Even numbers

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

Document reviews

Engineering change orders

Product proposals

Development plans

7. The site plan illustrates _________.

Where the garage and driveway are located

The floor plan

Where the house sits on the property

The roof plan

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

Baseline and linear

Linear and continuous

Quick dim and linear

Baseline and continuous

9. 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

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

Basic size

Actual size

Dimensioned size

Production size

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

Series of thread

Major diameter

Lead

Thread pitch

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

Designer's intent

Scale factor

Size of the sheet

None of these

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

Standard piping

Single-line

Double-line

Centerline piping

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

Symmetric section

Quarter section

Half section

Full section

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

Plumbing drain lines

Sidewalk

None of the above

Roof overhang

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

Architectural working

Isometric

Mechanical

All of the above

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

Dimension line

Center line

Poly line

Hatch line

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

Solid ground curing

Fused deposition modeling

Stereo lithography apparatus

Selective laser sintering

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

Sheet number

Layer set

All of these

Line type

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

Revolved section

Broken-out section

Removed section

Half section

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

Building section

Foundation

Floor plan

Elevations

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

Internal thread

Basic thread

External thread

Major diameter thread

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

Rivets

All fasteners

Thin parts

Bolts

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

Line

Polyline

Ellipse

Circle

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

1 : 4

1 : 2

1 : 1

2 : 1

26. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

Siding

Window style

Roof pitch

All of these

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

Center

Dimension

Leader

Extension

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

Aerospace

Publicly funded

Residential

Commercial

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

Form

Add

Union

Attach

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

Z-axis

Y-axis

All of these

X-axis

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

Windows

All of these

Centers of cabinets

Door openings and walls

32. 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

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

Filleted

Angular

Transverse

Straight

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

Finished floor elevations

All of these

Roof overhangs

Roof pitch angles

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

Decimal

Fractional

Metric

Architectural

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

Foundation

Floor plan

Site plan

All of these

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

Insure that Ortho is on

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

38. 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

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

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided prototyping

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided manufacturing

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

Half

Full

Quarter

Broken out

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

Broken out

Half

All of these

Whole

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

Removed section

Revolved section

Half section

Quarter section

43. 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

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

Select a different text style

Control the accuracy of the drawing

Produce a visible grid system

Choose various line types

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