ENGINEERING DRAWING QUIZ

PDM is the acronym for:

Project drawing management

Product data management

Project data manipulation

Product drawing manipulation

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This process recognizes the inherent interrelationships between design and manufacturing:

Design for manufacture

Design for assembly

Design for concurrent engineering

Design for manufacture and assembly

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Some common blocks used by architectural drafters include __________.

Door swings

Appliances

Ceiling fans

All of these

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In perspective drawings this is placed between the observer and the object:

Vanishing point / horizon

Station point

Ground line

Plane of projection / picture plane

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One way to evenly space dimensions on a drawing is to use the __________.

Dimension Space tool

Linear tool

Continue tool

Baseline tool

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Elevation drawings will include information about ________.

Siding

Roof pitch

Window style

All of these

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This is the theoretically exact size from which limits of size are determined:

Production size

Actual Size

Dimensioned size

Basic size

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Perspective drawings are classified according to their number of these features:

Vanishing points

Picture planes

Station points

Ground lines

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Traditional drafters need to be able to create several different line widths because ________.

Different line widths convey different information

The line width has to do with how dark it appear in the finished drawing

It makes no difference

They seem to transmit better in a fax machine

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The text height for room names should be set to ________for a drawing that will be plotted to a scale of ¼" = 1'-0".

6"

4"

8"

5"

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