Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

All of these

Half

Whole

Broken out

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

Decimal

Metric

Fractional

Architectural

3. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Feet only

Even numbers

Inches only

Feet and inches

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

Full

Quarter

Broken out

Half

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

Site plan

Floor plan

All of these

Foundation

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

Half section

Quarter section

Removed section

Revolved section

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

The PDF file

Paper space

Model space

The Finished plot

8. 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

9. 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

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

Fused deposition modeling

Selective laser sintering

Solid ground curing

Stereo lithography apparatus

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11. 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

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

Basic thread

Major diameter thread

Internal thread

External thread

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

Line

Polyline

Ellipse

Circle

14. 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

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

Pitch

Root

Lead

Crest

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

Floor plan

Foundation

Building section

Elevations

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

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided prototyping

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided engineering

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

Transverse

Filleted

Straight

Angular

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

All of the above

Architectural working

Mechanical

Isometric

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

Leader

Extension

Center

Dimension

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

Roof pitch angles

Roof overhangs

Finished floor elevations

All of these

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

Scale factor

Designer's intent

Size of the sheet

None of these

23. 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

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

Line type

All of these

Sheet number

Layer set

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

Y-axis

All of these

X-axis

Z-axis

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

Removed section

Broken-out section

Half section

Revolved section

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

Hidden

Center

Phantom

Dashed

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

Product proposals

Development plans

Document reviews

Engineering change orders

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

Symmetric section

Quarter section

Half section

Full section

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

Offset

Explode

None of these

Copy

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

1 : 2

1 : 1

1 : 4

2 : 1

32. 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

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

Double-line

Single-line

Centerline piping

Standard piping

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

Series of thread

Major diameter

Lead

Thread pitch

35. 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

36. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

Roof pitch

Siding

All of these

Window style

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

Publicly funded

Commercial

Residential

Aerospace

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

Thin parts

All fasteners

Bolts

Rivets

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

Half

Whole

Revolved

Broken out

40. The site plan illustrates _________.

The roof plan

Where the house sits on the property

The floor plan

Where the garage and driveway are located

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

Form

Union

Add

Attach

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

Production size

Actual size

Dimensioned size

Basic size

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

Linear and continuous

Baseline and continuous

Quick dim and linear

Baseline and linear

44. 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

See the entire bounding area to hatch

Turn ISO grid off

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