Spur gear design normally begins with selecting this:
Rack size
Tooth size
Gear size
Pitch diameter
Correct Answer :
D. Pitch diameter
Related Questions
When designing a home for a client, one of the most important predesign considerations that an architect needs to address is ________.
How much money the client is willing to spend
The site on which the house is to sit
The nearest grocery store
Whether or not there is a curb and gutter system
This is used to indicate that a surface is to be machined:
Finish mark
Machining mark
Roughness indicator
Coordinate mark
This is a conical-shaped recess around a hole, often used to receive a tapered screw head:
Boss
Spotface
Counterbore
Countersink
The MASSPROP shortcut will provide the following information.
Mass
Volume
Bounding box
All of the above
This type of surface may be a plane, a single curved surface, or a warped surface:
Edge surface
Ruled surface
Auxiliary surface
Developed surface
The first step in creating a traditional technical drawing is to ________.
Draw a series of guide lines
Set up the meter line
Align the paper so that it will be positioned square to the parallel bar
Sharpen the leads in the technical pens
A half-moon protractor is divided into how many degrees?
360
180
270
310
A fillet is a rounded surface on the ________ corner of a part.
Inside
Outside
Radial
Isoplane
When drawing a line using the relative coordinate system a line is created from ________.
0, 0
The ending point of the last line
The beginning point of the last line
None of the above
When creating a block the drafter needs to pay particular attention to selecting a base point because it determines the ________.
Scale
Rotation angle
Insertion point
Color
In some circumstances an entire drawing can be inserted into a different drawing as a block. When this is used the base point will default to ________.
0, 0
10, 10
20, 20
30, 30
Drafters should use a ________ in a section view of a mechanical part that includes the cylindrical view of a threaded hole.
Center line
Hatch line
Poly line
Dimension line
Switches and relays should be shown in this position with no operating force or applied energy:
Normal
Closed
Offset
Application
Isometric drawings are often used by ________ to help illustrate complex designs.
Mechanical engineers
Piping drafters
Aerospace engineers
All of the above
These are lines drawn on a map to locate, in the plan view, points of equal ground elevation:
Contours
Elevations
Profiles
Hatches
The architectural drafter usually begins a set of working drawings by creating the ________ plan first.
Foundation
Floor plan
Elevations
Building section
Architectural drawings used to construct a house are often plotted with a scale of ¼ = 1'-0. What scale is this?
Quarter
Half
Full
Double
In this type of view, the cutting plane line indicates both the location of the cutting plane and the direction of sight:
Removed section
Revolved section
Auxiliary section
Partial section
When the receding lines are true length, and the projectors are at 45 degrees to the plane of projection, the oblique drawing is called this:
Cabinet projection
Cavalier projection
Axonometric projection
Isometric projection
A drafter who develops technical drawings of a highway overpass would most likely be a ________ drafter.
Architectural
Civil
Mechanical
Process piping
In this type of dimensioning, allowance must be made for bends:
Angular
Tolerance
Datum
Sheet metal
In this type of drawing, vertical pipes may be revolved into the horizontal plane:
Standard view
Elevation view
Transverse piping
Developed piping
The text used on a typical detail sheet should be ________.
Placed horizontally
In bold text
In an architectural text style
None of the above
The 3-D commands on the Modeling toolbar include ________.
Box
Sphere
Extrude
All of the above
In this type of concrete, the steel is pre-tensioned before the superimposed load is applied:
Aggregate
Pre-stressed
Reinforced
Preloaded
Some traditional board drafters preferred the drafting machine over the parallel straight edge because it could be used without the need for________.
Circle templates
Triangles
Technical pens
Lettering guides
The most common geometric form used in gears today is this:
Involute profile
Convolute profile
Base circle
Spur circle
When using the descriptive geometry method to create an auxiliary view the drafter should __________.
Rotate the snap grid to the same angle of the inclined plane
Offset the right vertical line of the front view
Rotate the top line of the front view 45 degrees
Offset the top line of the front view 2 inches
This type of auxiliary view is projected onto a plane that is perpendicular to one of the principal planes of projection:
Primary
Secondary
Revolved
Successive
Center lines are used to locate or represent the centers of ________.
Arcs
Circles
Hidden round features
All of the above