Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

Water and steam

Water and gas

Gas and soil

Soil and waste

2. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Even numbers

Feet only

Inches only

Feet and inches

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

Major diameter

Lead

Series of thread

Thread pitch

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

Center

Dashed

Hidden

Phantom

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

1 : 1

1 : 2

1 : 4

2 : 1

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

Roof overhangs

Roof pitch angles

All of these

Finished floor elevations

7. 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

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

Add

Form

Attach

Union

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

Building section

Elevations

Floor plan

Foundation

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

Broken out

All of these

Whole

Half

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

Model space

The Finished plot

Paper space

The PDF file

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

All of the above

Isometric

Mechanical

Architectural working

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

Produce a visible grid system

Select a different text style

Choose various line types

Control the accuracy of the drawing

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

Line

Circle

Polyline

Ellipse

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

Residential

Aerospace

Commercial

Publicly funded

16. 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

Insure that Ortho is on

Enter 3 for the length of the line

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

Basic size

Actual size

Production size

Dimensioned size

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

Sheet number

Layer set

Line type

All of these

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

Dimension line

Poly line

Center line

Hatch line

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

Size of the sheet

Scale factor

None of these

Designer's intent

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

Foundation

Site plan

All of these

Floor plan

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

Revolved

Half

Broken out

Whole

23. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

Window style

All of these

Roof pitch

Siding

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

Half section

Revolved section

Removed section

Broken-out section

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

Turn ISO grid off

Set the layer to Defpoints

See the entire bounding area to hatch

Set Ortho on

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

Centerline piping

Double-line

Standard piping

Single-line

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

Half section

Symmetric section

Quarter section

Full section

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

Broken out

Quarter

Full

Half

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

Baseline and continuous

Linear and continuous

Quick dim and linear

Baseline and linear

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

Extension

Dimension

Leader

Center

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31. 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

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

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided prototyping

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided design

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

X-axis

All of these

Z-axis

Y-axis

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

Document reviews

Product proposals

Engineering change orders

Development plans

35. The site plan illustrates _________.

The roof plan

Where the garage and driveway are located

Where the house sits on the property

The floor plan

36. 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

Centers of cabinets

Windows

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

Plumbing drain lines

Roof overhang

None of the above

Sidewalk

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

Decimal

Metric

Fractional

Architectural

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

Angular

Filleted

Transverse

Straight

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

Internal thread

Basic thread

Major diameter thread

External thread

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

Quarter section

Removed section

Half section

Revolved section

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

Explode

Offset

None of these

Copy

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

Thin parts

Bolts

All fasteners

Rivets

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

Lead

Root

Pitch

Crest

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