Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

Rivets

All fasteners

Bolts

Thin parts

2. 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

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

Publicly funded

Residential

Aerospace

Commercial

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

Roof pitch angles

Finished floor elevations

Roof overhangs

All of these

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

Angular

Straight

Transverse

Filleted

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

Form

Attach

Add

Union

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

Architectural

Decimal

Fractional

Metric

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

Designer's intent

None of these

Scale factor

Size of the sheet

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

Major diameter

Series of thread

Thread pitch

Lead

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

Fused deposition modeling

Stereo lithography apparatus

Solid ground curing

Selective laser sintering

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11. The site plan illustrates _________.

Where the garage and driveway are located

The floor plan

The roof plan

Where the house sits on the property

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

Floor plan

Foundation

Building section

Elevations

13. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Even numbers

Feet only

Feet and inches

Inches only

14. 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

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

Crest

Pitch

Lead

Root

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

Set Ortho on

Set the layer to Defpoints

Turn ISO grid off

See the entire bounding area to hatch

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

Layer set

Line type

Sheet number

All of these

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

Engineering change orders

Product proposals

Development plans

Document reviews

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

Production size

Dimensioned size

Basic size

Actual size

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

None of the above

Roof overhang

Plumbing drain lines

Sidewalk

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

Removed section

Quarter section

Half section

Revolved section

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

Phantom

Hidden

Dashed

Center

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

Standard piping

Single-line

Double-line

Centerline piping

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

Full

Quarter

Broken out

Half

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

Quick dim and linear

Baseline and linear

Linear and continuous

Baseline and continuous

26. 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

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

Dimension

Center

Extension

Leader

28. 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

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

The PDF file

The Finished plot

Paper space

Model space

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

Half

All of these

Broken out

Whole

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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.

Broken out

Whole

Half

Revolved

32. 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

Insure that Ortho is on

Read the coordinate position on the Dynamic Readout

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

Symmetric section

Half section

Quarter section

Full section

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

All of these

Y-axis

X-axis

Z-axis

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

1 : 2

1 : 1

2 : 1

1 : 4

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

All of these

Site plan

Floor plan

Foundation

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

Broken-out section

Revolved section

Half section

Removed section

38. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

All of these

Roof pitch

Siding

Window style

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

Hidden line

Zero

Center line

Hatch

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

Windows

Centers of cabinets

Door openings and walls

All of these

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41. 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

Center line

Dimension line

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

Basic thread

Internal thread

External thread

Major diameter thread

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

Circle

Ellipse

Line

Polyline

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

Mechanical

Architectural working

All of the above

Isometric

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