Engineering Drawing MCQs Practice Set-5

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1. 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

Enter 3 for the length of the line

Read the coordinate position on the Dynamic Readout

Insure that Ortho is on

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

Transverse

Straight

Filleted

Angular

3. The site plan illustrates _________.

Where the garage and driveway are located

Where the house sits on the property

The roof plan

The floor plan

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

Major diameter

Series of thread

Thread pitch

Lead

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

All of these

Broken out

Whole

Half

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

Zero

Hatch

Center line

Hidden line

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

Roof overhang

Plumbing drain lines

Sidewalk

None of the above

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

None of these

Explode

Copy

Offset

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

Broken out

Full

Quarter

Half

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

All fasteners

Bolts

Rivets

Thin parts

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

All of these

Door openings and walls

Windows

Centers of cabinets

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

Sheet number

Line type

Layer set

All of these

13. 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

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

Mechanical

Isometric

Architectural working

All of the above

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

Broken-out section

Half section

Revolved section

Removed section

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

Removed section

Half section

Quarter section

Revolved section

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

Elevations

Foundation

Building section

Floor plan

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

Center

Extension

Dimension

Leader

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

Water and gas

Water and steam

Gas and soil

Soil and waste

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

Product proposals

Document reviews

Engineering change orders

Development plans

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

Size of the sheet

Scale factor

None of these

Designer's intent

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

Foundation

All of these

Floor plan

Site plan

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

Quick dim and linear

Linear and continuous

Baseline and continuous

Baseline and linear

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

Z-axis

X-axis

Y-axis

All of these

25. 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

Whole

Half

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

Line

Polyline

Ellipse

Circle

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

Selective laser sintering

Stereo lithography apparatus

Fused deposition modeling

Solid ground curing

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

Computer-aided engineering

Computer-aided manufacturing

Computer-aided prototyping

Computer-aided design

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

1 : 4

2 : 1

1 : 1

1 : 2

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

Lead

Crest

Root

Pitch

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31. 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

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

Dashed

Hidden

Phantom

Center

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

Dimension line

Center line

Hatch line

Poly line

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

Decimal

Fractional

Metric

Architectural

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

Form

Attach

Union

Add

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

Half section

Symmetric section

Quarter section

Full section

37. Architectural dimensioning is usually done in ________.

Feet and inches

Inches only

Even numbers

Feet only

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

The PDF file

Paper space

Model space

The Finished plot

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

Standard piping

Double-line

Single-line

Centerline piping

40. Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

All of these

Roof pitch

Window style

Siding

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

Basic thread

External thread

Major diameter thread

Internal thread

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

Production size

Basic size

Dimensioned size

Actual size

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

Roof overhangs

All of these

Finished floor elevations

Roof pitch angles

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

Publicly funded

Residential

Aerospace

Commercial

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