Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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

Isometric

All of the above

Mechanical

Architectural working

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

Product proposals

Engineering change orders

Document reviews

Development plans

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

1 : 4

1 : 2

2 : 1

1 : 1

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

Size of the sheet

Designer's intent

Scale factor

None of these

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

Floor plan

Foundation

Building section

Elevations

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

Center line

Poly line

Hatch line

Dimension line

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

Major diameter thread

External thread

Internal thread

Basic thread

9. The site plan illustrates _________.

The floor plan

The roof plan

Where the house sits on the property

Where the garage and driveway are located

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

Line type

Sheet number

Layer set

All of these

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11. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

Siding

All of these

Roof pitch

Window style

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

The Finished plot

Paper space

Model space

The PDF file

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

Baseline and continuous

Baseline and linear

Quick dim and linear

Linear and continuous

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

Rivets

Bolts

Thin parts

All fasteners

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

Major diameter

Series of thread

Lead

Thread pitch

16. 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

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

Insure that Ortho is on

Read the coordinate position on the Dynamic Readout

Pull the line from away from the starting point very carefully

Enter 3 for the length of the line

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

Metric

Architectural

Fractional

Decimal

19. 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

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

Actual size

Basic size

Dimensioned size

Production size

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

Lead

Root

Pitch

Crest

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

Straight

Angular

Transverse

Filleted

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

Sidewalk

Roof overhang

Plumbing drain lines

None of the above

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

All of these

Z-axis

X-axis

Y-axis

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

Floor plan

All of these

Site plan

Foundation

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

Quarter section

Half section

Full section

Symmetric section

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

Ellipse

Line

Circle

Polyline

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

Removed section

Half section

Quarter section

Revolved section

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

Half section

Removed section

Revolved section

Broken-out section

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

Commercial

Aerospace

Publicly funded

Residential

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

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided design

Computer-aided prototyping

Computer-aided manufacturing

32. 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

33. 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

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

Finished floor elevations

All of these

Roof pitch angles

Roof overhangs

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

Choose various line types

Select a different text style

Produce a visible grid system

Control the accuracy of the drawing

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

Half

Whole

All of these

Broken out

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

Windows

All of these

Door openings and walls

Centers of cabinets

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

Centerline piping

Single-line

Double-line

Standard piping

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

Turn ISO grid off

Set Ortho on

See the entire bounding area to hatch

Set the layer to Defpoints

40. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Inches only

Feet and inches

Feet only

Even numbers

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

Explode

Copy

None of these

Offset

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

Add

Attach

Form

Union

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

Extension

Center

Leader

Dimension

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

Revolved

Broken out

Half

Whole

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