Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

Internal thread

External thread

Major diameter thread

Basic thread

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

Dimension line

Hatch line

Poly line

Center line

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

Broken out

Half

Full

Quarter

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

Sheet number

All of these

Layer set

Line type

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

Half section

Broken-out section

Removed section

Revolved section

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

Mechanical

Architectural working

All of the above

Isometric

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

Basic size

Production size

Dimensioned size

Actual size

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

Filleted

Transverse

Angular

Straight

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

Decimal

Fractional

Metric

Architectural

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

Paper space

Model space

The Finished plot

The PDF file

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

Solid ground curing

Stereo lithography apparatus

Selective laser sintering

Fused deposition modeling

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

None of these

Scale factor

Size of the sheet

Designer's intent

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

Enter 3 for the length of the line

Read the coordinate position on the Dynamic Readout

Insure that Ortho is on

Pull the line from away from the starting point very carefully

14. The site plan illustrates _________.

Where the house sits on the property

The floor plan

The roof plan

Where the garage and driveway are located

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

1 : 4

1 : 2

1 : 1

2 : 1

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

Residential

Publicly funded

Commercial

Aerospace

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

Quarter section

Revolved section

Removed section

Half section

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

Attach

Union

Form

Add

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

All of these

Roof pitch angles

Finished floor elevations

Roof overhangs

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

Floor plan

Foundation

Site plan

All of these

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

All fasteners

Bolts

Rivets

Thin parts

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

Floor plan

Foundation

Elevations

Building section

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

Copy

None of these

Offset

Explode

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

Series of thread

Major diameter

Lead

Thread pitch

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

Hatch

Center line

Hidden line

Zero

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

Select a different text style

Choose various line types

Control the accuracy of the drawing

Produce a visible grid system

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

Development plans

Document reviews

Engineering change orders

Product proposals

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

Crest

Pitch

Lead

Root

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

X-axis

Y-axis

All of these

Z-axis

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

Linear and continuous

Baseline and linear

Quick dim and linear

Baseline and continuous

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

Water and steam

Water and gas

Soil and waste

Gas and soil

33. 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

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

Set the layer to Defpoints

Turn ISO grid off

Set Ortho on

See the entire bounding area to hatch

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

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided prototyping

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

Symmetric section

Half section

Quarter section

Full section

37. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Feet only

Feet and inches

Even numbers

Inches only

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

Center

Dashed

Phantom

Hidden

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

Plumbing drain lines

Sidewalk

Roof overhang

None of the above

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

Half

Whole

All of these

Broken out

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41. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

Window style

Siding

Roof pitch

All of these

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

Standard piping

Centerline piping

Single-line

Double-line

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

Center

Leader

Extension

Dimension

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

Ellipse

Line

Polyline

Circle

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