TLE – DRAFTING with Answer Key

1.When a designer or an ordinary person translates his or her own design idea with the use of paper and
pencil, what is the name of the activity?

a. Architectural delineation

b.Freehand Sketching

c.Geometric Construction

d.Drafting

2.After two dimensional drawings are done and all the shapes and sizes being laid-out, the next step to
be executed to complete the process is_.

Dimensioning

Tolerancing

Specifications

Sectional Drawing

3.With the help of drawing instruments such as T-square and triangles, one produces quick and accurate
delineations for an intended project. The process is considered as:

Drafting

Pictorial Drawing

Graphics

Shape and Size Descriptions

4.Technical drafting involves the manipulation of the elements of geometry to make accurate
description of shapes. Which term is referred to by engineering’s and drafting professionals all over
world?

Blueprint Reading

Geometric Construction

Line Weight

Measurement
5.Objects to be drawn are not always solid in nature and if we want to explain complex objects to the
reader of our blueprints we need an imaginary cut through the component or an assembly drawing to
portray exactly what is inside. This element is called:

Sectioning

Parallel Perspective

Etching

Dimensioning

6.To make drawings look more professional, the notes, dimensions, and other specifications must be
professionally executed. In manual drafting this is called:

Lettering by the hand

Scaling

Drawing of views

Legibility

7.In various engineering fields, multiple line weights are being to emphasize areas of drawing. It is also
standardized in order for a uniform interpretation drawing. The term is called:

Horizontal Line

Center line

Alphabet lines

Dimensioning

8.It is about placing units of measure to the height, width, and length of an object to convey accurate
instructions to part. In old English it is called “dimensions”. IN drafting this means:

Tolerance

Datum

axis

dimensioning

9.Which is a method of

representing the exact shape and size of an object drawn to scale on “set of planes” which sometimes
are called planes of projection? It is also known as 3-view drawing.
Orthographic Projection

Perspective Construction

Isometric Drawing

Fourth Dimension

10.Which technique in pictorial drawing appears like 3-dimensional but the lines are exactly 30 degrees
from horizontal part of the object?

Isometric Drawing

Cabinet Drawing

Oblique Drawing

Perspective Drawing

11.As far as the appearance of the drawing is concerned, it is the most important part for the usefulness
of the drawing it can be ruined if it is done carelessly:

Painting

Lettering

Etching

Calligraphy

12.There are six secrets of lettering namely: form, proportion, stability, density, and spacing. Identify the
sixth secret by completing the adage: “A good draft man will never letter without use of:

Line

Guidelines

Horizontal lines

Border lines

13.Five guidelines are accepted in the drafting field. Which of them are laid-out to touch the capital
letter c aside from the base line?

Base line

Cap line

Drop line
Waist line

14.Which of these are positioned to limit letter g aside from waist line?

Base line

Cap line

Drop line

Waist line

15.Of the many styles of letters, the most commonly used are script or italics, gothic, old English and
roman. Which of them is most commonly used in college diploma?

Roman

Script or italics

Old English

Gothic

16.Time is gold so a drafter must not get into a habit of making excessively time-consuming letters.
Single-stroke letters are advised with:

Rapidity of stroke

Sloppiness

Laziness

Free and natural

17.A grade 9 student understood that the Roman letters consist of thick and thin lines and was asking to
him. What were those small thin lines at the end of every letter except O? in the drafting field the lines
are called:

Serifs

Stem

Dash line

Ditto

18.Prior to the introduction of Computer Aided Design and Drafting there are tools in lettering which are
made of either plastic or aluminum on which the drafter just traced the letters using a technical pen to
produce each letter. The instrument is called:
Lettering template

Lettering box

Leroy guide

Pressure sensitive guide

19.For beginning drafters the suggested height of letters to practice first is 6mm and then shift to a
height of:

30mm

3mm

1mm

50mm

20.In the field of Drafting, each line has a specific meaning. This is to establish a uniform way when
interpreting complex blueprints of objects and other mega projects. These lines are called:

Alphabet of Lines

Alpha numeric of Lines

Language of Lines

Lines of Sight

21.Based on the Blueprint, machinist is about to drill a 16mm diameter hole on a piece of
100mmx120mm flat bar. Which line in the alphabet of lines must he look for first?

Hidden Line

Phantom Line

Center Line

Section Line

22.When drawing the different views in orthographic projection, a drafter must acknowledge that there
are hidden edges that must be emphasized in order to produce complete drawing information. Which
line is he going to use?

Hidden Line

Section Line
Center Line

Object Line

23.A drawing teacher on a local high school was discussing a feature on which the surface appears to
have imaginary cut along the cutting plane line. Which line is she going to apply to the surface where the
cutting plane cut through?

Center Line

Dimension Line

Section line

invisible Line

24.There are six principal views of an object, TV, FV and RSV, RV, LSV, BV. Which the views are accepted
by the industry as standard multi-views according to the 3rd angle projection?

Top view, front view, and right side view

Side view, bottom view, and rear view

Right side view, left side view, and bottom view

Front view, rear view and side view

25.A group of students is experimenting on views in orthographic projection. They extract first the front
view of a simple object using a transparent material as discussed by their teacher. What technique are
they using?

Glass box technique

Onion skin technique

Japanese paper technique

Polycarbonate technique

26.Orthographic projection goes farther than right angle. A drafter can actually extract views for more
details of the object provided that the projectors are parallel to each other and normal to the plane of
projection. The additional plane is called:

Frontal plane

Auxiliary plane

Profile plane
Horizontal plane

27.All of objects have distinct limits which can be considered as the width, depth, and height. So when a
drafter is working on the difference in elevation between any two points, measured as the perpendicular
distance between a pair of horizontal lines, he is now engaged in the_ of the object?

Depth

Height

Width

Bottom

28.When an engineer is engaged in the preparation of views prior to formal drafting activities, he
practically bases his information on actual and accurate observation. This process is regarded as:

Pencil and paper exercise

Glass box technique

Orthographic sketch

Order drawing

29.After all the views are given, the drafter must now work on the real form of the objects based on
actual result of the orthographic projection. This process is called:

Pictorial drawing

Depth dimensioning

Height dimensioning

Center dimensioning

30 In isometric drawings, the angle used to aid the construction of the object is 30 degrees and all
vertical line are equal lengths or scale but in oblique drawing the angle used is:

40 degrees

45 degrees

30 degrees

60 degrees

31.In oblique drawing, the depth of the object is reduced to ½ in case of cabinet oblique, ¾ in case of a
general oblique, and true or same measurement in:
Width

Cavalier

Specific

Object

32.Which technique is commonly used around the world as a graphic method or representing a 3-
dimensional object and intended to combine the illusion of depth, with the undistorted presentation of
the object’s principal dimension?

Cavalier oblique

Isometric drawing

Cabinet oblique

General oblique

33.When an observer stands in the middle of a street, the end of the street seems to narrow as far as his
eyes can see. Then he tries to draw the buildings as it appears on his visual observations. The process is
called_.

Perspective drawing

Isometric drawing

Diametric drawing

Cabinet drawing

34.A student in drafting has done three views; his next task is to indicate the dimensions to complete
the information. What is the distance of the first dimension from the views?

1”

2”

1/8”

½”

35.There is a good reason why we should not place dimensions directly on the itself. This is to avoid?

Super dimensioning

Overcrowding of dimensions
Inaccurate dimensions

Aligned dimension

36.The radius of an arc should always be specified by the drafter in the form of a symbol which
denotes_.

rad

ra

37.It is important to the drafting students to place the overall dimension of a part or view to appear
more pleasing to the reader. It is placed starting from the_.

Shortest dimension line outside the view

Longest dimension line outside the views

Longer dimension inside the view

Shorter dimension inside the view

38.Some drafter often place dimensions every while the maybe permitted in some drafting classes let us
keep in mind that these are repetitions and can be avoided. This is referred to as_.

Superfluous dimension

Unidirectional dimensioning

Aligned dimensioning

Tolerance dimensioning

39.In the rule of sectional drawing, all visible edges exposed by the cutting-plane line must be
emphasized and series of lines can now be drawn. This process is called_.

Filling-up of section lines

Eliminating hidden lines

Eliminating object lines

Symmetrical objects
40.There are situations in executing sectional drawings that every drafter must be familiar with
especially when dealing with blow-up part of an object. We find this very reasonable with tiny and
complicated parts. This refers to_.

Detail sections or spot details

Dual dimensioning

Aligned objects

Isometric objects

41.For a professional looking section detail, which additional feature shall a drafter include to really
portray the drawing?

Line symbols

Common section line symbols for materials

Material line weight

Symmetric object line

42.There are several types of section- a full section which the cutting plane line passes across entire
object and half section on which the cutting plane passes through an object which is_.

Symmetrical

Orthographic

Offset drawing

Common section

43.When a section is to be detailed according to the intended parts, assembly is called_.

Assembly of parts

Assembly section

Assembly of materials

Assembly of common section

44.The world has adopted the metric system of dimensioning but some countries used it voluntarily
depending on the situation they practice. What is the name of their approach?

Unidirectional system
Dual dimensioning system

Aligned system

Position dimensioning

45.A third-world country even for its stage can’t neglect drafting as part of its industrial pursuit is it
manual, mechanized, or automated. So a citizen of a third world country must have the necessary skill in
the use of:

Graphic or drafting language

Foreign language

Sign language

English language

46.Mr. John cross purchased a 12.00m x 9.00m (frontal) land along the road. Local building code
mandated that the building must have a set-back of 3.00m with respect to the edge of the paved
barangay road. What then is the total area of the land minus the building code?

80 square meters

81 square meters

90 square meters

79.90 square meters

47.Grade 10 students from a local central school in the North wanted to build a square culvert with one
side open for an irrigation system. The dimensions are; w=80, d=1.20, h =.80m, and the thickness is .
80m. What then is the set of drawings they need before giving it to an engineer to determine the size of
reinforcement bars?

Top view, front view, right side view, isometric

Top view, front view, bottom view, isometric

Top view, front view, rear view, isometric

Top view, side view

48.A half-moon protractor is divided into how many degrees?

360

180
270

310

49.A line drawn with a long section, short dash, and another long section is a_.

Hidden feature

Center of a circle

Center axis of a hidden cylinder

Center of a radius

50.Traditional drafters need to be able to create several different line widths because_.

Different line widths convey different information

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

They seem to transmit better in a fax machine

It makes no difference

51.Several of the tools used in traditional drafting include the following:

Parallel straight edge

45 degrees triangle

Circle template

All the above

52.A civil engineer working on a bridge design would probably rely on his _ scale for checking printed
drawings.

Engineer’s

Metric

Architect’s

None of the above

53.In order to connect fractional inches into decimal inches_____.

Look on a metric conversion chart

Divide the numerator by the denominator

All of the above

54.An engineer would be used to measure lines on a drawing where the scale factor reads _____.

¼” = 1’ – 0”

1/8” = 1’ =0”

1” = 100’

¾”= 1’ 0”

55.Referring to the fractional inches to decimal inches to millimeter conversion chart on page 55 what is
the equivalent mm measurement of 3/16 inch?

1.906

4.7625

5.958

14.6844

56.Some traditional board drafter preferred the drafting machine over the parallel straight edge because
it could be used without the need for _____.

Circle template

Triangles

Technical pens

Lettering guides

57.The first step in creating a traditional technical drawing is to;_______

Draw a series of guidelines

Set up the miter line

Align the paper so that it will be positioned square to the parallel bar

Sharpen the leads in the technical pen

58.When lettering a CAD drawing, for clarity you should limit the number of fonts to:

One
Two

Three

Any number

59.The primary unit of measurement for engineering drawings and design in the mechanical industries is
the:

millimeter

centimeter

meter

kilometer

60.These units are based on inch-foot and yard measurements:

international customary units

U.S. metric units

U.S. customary units

ISO international units

61.This is how axonometric, oblique, and perspective sketches show objects:

Orthographically

Pictorially

Obliquely

Parallel

62.This type of projection is when projectors are parallel to each other, but are at an angle other than 90
degrees to the plane of projection:

Oblique projection

Perpendicular projection

Aesthetic projection

Angular projection

63.There are two main types of projection:

Station-point and perspective

Parallel and convergent

Perspective and parallel

64.The top, front, and bottom and views align in this manner.

Horizontally

Vertically

According to the planar views

Parallel to the frontal plane

65.If a plane is parallel to the plane of projection, it appears;

True size

As a line or edge

Foreshortened

As an oblique surface

66.This line pattern is composed of three dashes, one long dash on each end with a short dash in the
middle:

Object

Hidden

Center

Phantom

67.This is the plane upon which the top view is projected:

Horizontal

Frontal

Profile

Base
68.An advance of this type of view is that each view shows the object all the way through as if it were
transparent.

Planar

Horizontal

Auxiliary

Orthographic

69.This type of surface is tipped to all principal planes of projection and does not appear true size in any
standard view.

Foreshortened

Parallel

Orthographic

Oblique

70.Isometric drawings are often used by ______to help illustrate complex designs.

Mechanical engineers

Piping drafters

Aerospace engineers

All the above

71.A fillet is a rounded surface on the ___corner of a part.

Inside

Outside

Radial

Isoplane

72.A round is a rounded surface on the ___corner of part.

Inside

Outside

Radial
Isoplane

73.The bounding box method for setting up an isometric drawing helps the drafter____.

Confine the isometric drawing of its maximum size

Figure what lines are to be illustrated vertical and horizontal

Position isometric drawing in paper space

None of the above

74.The offset tool should only be used for placing_____ in an isometric drawing.

Circles

Horizontal lines

Vertical lines

None of the above

75.When creating an isometric drawing in Auto CAD, the drafter can utilize the Dynamic input and Polar
Coordinate system to place both vertical and horizontal lines. A line created from one point 3 inches at
180 degrees would be a _____line.

Horizontal

Vertical

Inclined

None of the above

76.Auto CAD refers to isometric ellipses as ____

Ellipses

Isoellipses

Isocircle

Circles

77.These lines are used to indicate the measurement of objects and are represented by fine dark solid
lines.

Leader lines

Extensions lines
Dimensions lines

Center lines

78.If a drawing has an equal measure then it refers to __________.

Perspective drawing

Isometric drawing

Mechanical drawing

Oblique drawing

79.When parts that are not seen are represented by series of light dash lines then this line is classified as
_________.

Reference line

Visible line

Section line

Invisible line

80.One of the best practices of a good draftsman is to NEVER letter without __________.

Guide lines

Pencil

Lettering pens

Ink

81.If drawing has one surface that is parallel to the picture plane then this method is called ____.

Oblique drawing

Isometric drawing

Perspective drawing

Orthographic drawing

82.This pictorial view is normally seen by the observer’s eyes. Which one is it?

Isometric drawing

Oblique drawing
Perspective drawing

Orthographic drawing

83.The line used to show clearly the dimension limits as called ____?

Center line

Extension line

Dimension line

Phantom line or section line

84.A horizontal line used to determine the general height of lower case letters.

Base line

Cap line

Waist line

Drop line

85.Letters that are composed of uniform width elements are classified as _____.

Italic letters

Text letters

Gothic letters

Roman letters

86.Horizontal lines are best drawn using this instrument.

T-square

Ruler

Meter stick

Triangles

87.The drawing pencil of a draftsman is graded the softest, medium, and hardest. Which of the following
grades is the softest?

6B

HB
3B

9H

889Which grade of pencil is commonly used for lettering by a draftsman?

2H

HB

4H

6H

89.A drawing instrument that serves as guide in drawing vertical and diagonal lines as in triangles. It is
generally used in drawing horizontal lines. Which one is it?

Triangular scale

T- square

Triangle

French curve

90.Which is instrument is used in drawing curves except circles and arcs?

Compass

Protractor

French curve

Divider

91.To completely describe a cone, sphere, and rectangular pyramid the number of views needed is
______.

One

Two

Three

Six

92.This line is projected as a shorter line in a drawing.

Incline line
Vertical line

Curve line

Horizontal line

93.Boxing method is the most widely used method of drawing a/an _____.

Isometric view

Pictorial view

Mechanical view

Perspective view

94.Two intersecting lines which form right angles are called ____.

Straight lines

Parallel lines

Perpendicular lines

Tangent lines

95.A polygon is classified according to the number of sides. What do you call a four – sided polygon?

Pentagon

Quadrilateral

Hexagonal

Octagon

96.How many meters is thirty feet?

3 meters

30 meters

12 meters

9 meters

97.Drafting material used for fastening the drawing paper on the drawing table.

Compass
Divider

Masking tape

Triangle

98.The main function of this tool is to reproduce the measurements of an object to any size.

Compass

Protractor

Triangles

Triangular scales

99.This drafting tool is used to protect the rest of drawing when removing unnecessary lines.

Erasing shield

Eraser

Masking tape

Pencil sharpener

100.Best tool when measuring arcs, angles, and circles.

Eraser

Triangular scale

Protractor

Divider

Answer Key: 👇👇👇

1. B

2. A

3. A

4. b

5. a

6. a
7. c

8. d

9. a

10. a

11. b

12. b

13. c

14. c

15. c

16. d

17. a

18. b

19. b

20. a

21. c

22. c

23. c

24. a

25. a

26. b

27. c

28. c

29. c

30. b

31. c
32. b

33. b

34. b

35. d

36. b

37. a

38. a

39. a

40. a

41. b

42. a

43. a

44. b

45. a

46. b

47. a

48. b

49. c

50. a

51. d

52. a

53. b

54. c

55. b

56. b
57. c

58. b

59. a

60. c

61. b

62. a

63. b

64. b

65. a

66. c

67. a

68. d

69. d

70. d

71. a

72. b

73. b

74. c

75. b

76. C

77. c

78. b

79. d

80. a

81. a
82. c

83. b

84. c

85. c

86. a

87. a

88. b

89. b

90. c

91. b

92. a

93. a

94. c

95. b

96. c

97. c

98. d

99. a

100. c