Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

Product proposals

Document reviews

Development plans

Engineering change orders

2. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Feet and inches

Even numbers

Feet only

Inches only

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

Full

Half

Broken out

Quarter

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

Centers of cabinets

Windows

Door openings and walls

All of these

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

X-axis

All of these

Y-axis

Z-axis

6. 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

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

Center line

Zero

Hidden line

Hatch

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

Rivets

All fasteners

Thin parts

Bolts

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

Explode

Copy

Offset

None of these

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

See the entire bounding area to hatch

Set Ortho on

Set the layer to Defpoints

Turn ISO grid off

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

Double-line

Single-line

Centerline piping

Standard piping

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

None of the above

Roof overhang

Sidewalk

Plumbing drain lines

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

Removed section

Revolved section

Half section

Broken-out section

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

Aerospace

Commercial

Publicly funded

Residential

16. The site plan illustrates _________.

The roof plan

The floor plan

Where the garage and driveway are located

Where the house sits on the property

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

Extension

Dimension

Center

Leader

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

Baseline and continuous

Quick dim and linear

Linear and continuous

Baseline and linear

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

Paper space

The PDF file

Model space

The Finished plot

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

Insure that Ortho is on

Enter 3 for the length of the line

Pull the line from away from the starting point very carefully

Read the coordinate position on the Dynamic Readout

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

Water and gas

Soil and waste

Gas and soil

Water and steam

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

Computer-aided prototyping

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided engineering

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

Scale factor

None of these

Size of the sheet

Designer's intent

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

Phantom

Dashed

Hidden

Center

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

Quarter section

Half section

Removed section

Revolved section

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

Internal thread

Major diameter thread

External thread

Basic thread

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

Lead

Root

Crest

Pitch

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

1 : 1

1 : 4

2 : 1

1 : 2

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

Half section

Symmetric section

Full section

Quarter section

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

Thread pitch

Series of thread

Major diameter

Lead

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

Basic size

Actual size

Production size

Dimensioned size

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

Fractional

Decimal

Metric

Architectural

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

Elevations

Foundation

Floor plan

Building section

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

Architectural working

Mechanical

Isometric

All of the above

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

Form

Union

Add

Attach

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

Fused deposition modeling

Selective laser sintering

Stereo lithography apparatus

Solid ground curing

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

Site plan

Foundation

All of these

Floor plan

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

Line type

Sheet number

All of these

Layer set

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

Transverse

Straight

Angular

Filleted

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

Circle

Ellipse

Polyline

Line

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41. 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

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

Control the accuracy of the drawing

Produce a visible grid system

Choose various line types

Select a different text style

43. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

Roof pitch

Siding

Window style

All of these

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

Finished floor elevations

Roof pitch angles

All of these

Roof overhangs

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