AutoCAD Final Exam Review

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Drawing templates have the file extension

.DWT

If a predefined hatch pattern is defined as a set of parallel lines .5 unit apart at a 45 angle, applying a hatch scale of 2 and a hatch angle of 180 will result in an area hatch consisting of lines

1 unit apart at an angle of 225

Scientific unit display

1.4200E101

Paper space

2D environment used to lay out drawing for plotting

Which of the following is an example of polar coordinate entry

3<90

Model space

3D drawing environment where most of a drawing's line work and text reside

Architectural units

4'-8 3/16"

The color blue is autoCAD color index number

5

The Ortho Mode drawing tool restricts your cursor movement to

90 angles

What keyboard key(s) toggle(s) the full text command window on and off

<Ctrl><F2> keys

What keyboard key cancels any active command

<ESC> key

The keyboard key that turns off (deselects) grips is

<Esc>

To select multiple grips, you must hold down which key when picking the first grip

<SHIFT>

What keyboard key toggles between input fields when using the Dynamic Input feature

<TAB> key

Which of the following is an example of relative coordinate entry

@3,4

A layer is

A collection of color, line-type, lightweight, and other display settings

Layer

A collection of color, linetype, lineweight, transparency, and display settings

Page setup

A collection of plot settings that are applied to a drawing layout

RGB

A color model based on red, green, and blue color components

Drawing template

A drawing file used as a starting point when creating new drawings

Circle

A drawing object defined by a center point and a radius length

ACAD.PAT

A file that contains hatch pattern definitions

LTSCALE

A global scale factor applied to all linetypes

What is a Cartesian coordinate system

A grid-based system with the x, y, and z axis

Property filter

A layer filter based on matching criteria

Group layer filter

A layer filter based on user-selected layer names

Associativity

A link between drawing objects and dimension objects

Associativity

A link between two drawing objects so that when one changes, the other updates

Erase mode

A mode of OFFSET command that deletes the source object after it is offset

Extend mode

A mode of TRIM and EXTEND commands that allows you to trim or extend to implied intersection

Layer state

A saved collection of layer settings

Gradient fill

A solid pattern with a smooth transition from one color to another

point objects

A system of locating points using distance and direction

Cartesian coordinate system

A system of locating points using the x and y axis

DesignCenter

A tool used to share design information between AutoCAD drawings

Polar tracking works by displaying a dashed line referred to as

Alignment path

A selection set is

All currently selected objects

Complex line objects can be used for which of the following purposes

All of the above

Construction lines are used for

All of the above

Grip modes can be selected via

All of the above

Hatch patterns can be

All of the above

Layers in autoCAD are used for the following

All of the above

Most of AutoCAD's drawing tools can be toggled on and off by

All of the above

Object snaps can be selected by

All of the above

The Zoom Realtime tool allows you to

All of the above

The difference between the window selection method and the crossing section method is

All of the above

The main benefit of using CAD is:

All of the above

To move the drawing display area back and forth without changing the drawing's zoom scale factor, you should use

All of the above

You can draw a polyline rectangle with the RETANG command by

All of the above

You can use polyline widths to create

All of the above

the BREAK command

All of the above

when you are creating a selection set, you can remove objects by

All of the above

LENGTHEN command

Allows you to display and modify the length of objects

In the TRIM command, when selecting objects to trim, holding down the <SHIFT> key

Allows you to extend objects to the cutting edges

Group filters

Are not based on any specific criteria

Points

Are stored as a single coordinate in space

Object snap tracking can display alignment paths

At all polar increment angles

Grips appear

At key points on drawing objects

Status bar

AutoCAD mini-dashboard at the bottom of the AutoCAD window

Implied window

Automated window, crossing, or lasso selection option

Implied windowing allows you to

Automatically create a window crossing or lasso selection

Deleting a layer

Can be done only when a layer is unused

The command line

Can be turned off

Drawing templates

Can contain both geometry and drawing settings

BREAK command

Can convert a circle into an arc and turn a single object into multiple objects

JOIN command

Can convert an arc into a full circle

A solid fill pattern

Can use any valid AutoCAD color

Property filters

Can use wildcards

Which of the following is NOT a valid method of drawing a circle

Center Circumference

Hatch islands

Closed areas within a hatch boundary

MEASURE

Command used to place points at a specified interval along an object

DIVIDE

Command used to place points at equal distances along an object

Polyline

Complex line object made up of one or more connected line segments

Revision cloud

Continuous line made of arcs that resembles a cloud, used to highlight markups and changes

VIEWRES system variable

Controls arc and circle smoothness

ZOOMFACTOR system variable

Controls mouse thumb wheel zoom increment

Snap mode

Controls movement of cursor to specific x and y increments

COPY command

Copies objects a user-supplied distance and angle

ARRAYPATH command

Copies objects equidistantly along a path

By default, angles in AutoCAD are measured

Counterclockwise

By default, in which direction are positive angles measured in AutoCAD

Counterclockwise

MIRROR command

Creates a mirror image of objects about a mirror axis line

Breaking an Xline

Creates two rays

The defualt three-letter file extension for AutoCAD is

DWG

An ellipsis (...) next to an object snap AutoSnap marker indicates the object snap is

Deferred

Object snap tracking

Displays dashed alignment paths at object snap points

Polar tracking

Displays dashed alignment paths that temperately restrict cursor to preset angle increments

The rectangular grid display area is determined by the

Drawing limits

The command that breaks a complex line object down into individual lines and arcs is

EXPLODE

grips

Editing points that appear at key locations on drawing objects when they are selected

Which drawing units are specifically based on imperial (feet-inches) units

Engineering and architectural

To create a clockwise polyline arc using the Angle option, you can

Enter an angle less than 0

A grid unit always equals 1 inch

False

Angles in AutoCAD are always measured counterclockwise

False

Any command can be used transparently when another command is active

False

AutoCAD can create one-, two-, and three-color gradient fills

False

Construction lines extend to your drawing limits

False

DesignCenter is used only to insert bloces from other drawings

False

Drawings can use only imperial or metric units

False

Entering a negative angle when using the polyline arc Angle option creates a counterclockwise arc

False

Hatch objects cannot be modified you must delete and re-create them

False

Holding down the <SHIFT> key during the CHAMFER command allows it to draw fillet curves

False

It is possible to use the Ortho Mode and Polar Tracking drawing tools at the same time

False

Line-weight appears only when you plot a drawing

False

Objects must actually touch each other for the TRIM command to work

False

Objects must touch end to end to be used as hatch boundaries

False

Objects on a layer that is frozen can be seen but not modified

False

Point objects do not plot

False

Point style can be set separtely for each point

False

Polar tracking angles are always measured from the AutoCAD base angle (0)

False

Text is always mirrored when you use the MIRROR command

False

The BREAK command converts rays into Xlines

False

The LENGTHEN command doesn't work with arcs

False

The Length option in the ARC command determines the actual arc length

False

The Precious selection option will select the previous object that was added to a drawing

False

The UNITS command controls how precisely coordinates are stored in the drawing

False

The Zoom Previous tool will also undo the last command

False

The eRase option of the TRIM and EXTEND commands will undo any changes made during the command

False

The grid display controls the cursor movement

False

The layer control drop-down list always shows all the layers in a drawing

False

The mouse pointer changes from an arrow to a microscope when the Zoom Realtime too is selected

False

The mouse wheel button always activates the Pan tool

False

The snap and grid spacing must always be the same

False

The traditional approach to modifying mentioned in question 1 is referred to as the noun/verb approach

False

There is only one layout allowed in a drawing file

False

To move an object, you must always select the object first and then start the MOVE command

False

Turning off the Show/HIde Linewieght toggle on the AutoCAD status bar turns off all poyline widths

False

User-defined hatch patterns are always drawn with a continuous linetype

False

You cannot modify hatch pattern definitions

False

You must always pick an acquired point when using object snaps

False

You must always specify z coordinate when locating 2D points in CAD, even if z=0

False

You must specify a negative inside diameter to draw a solid (filled) donut using the DONUT command

False

the JOIN command requires that line segments must lie end to end with no gaps or overlaps

False

the OFFSET command cannot be used on closed objects

False

the PEDIT command's Spline option can be used to create a true B-spline

False

Dynamic input

Feature that allows you to enter input information near the mouse cursor

The maximum gap size that objects can be apart and still be joined using the PEDIT's command Join option is called

Fuzz distance

model space is

Generally used to draw objects that exist in the real world

object snaps

Geometric points on objects such as the end-points or midpoint of a line or the center of an arc or circle

an object with the color of ByLayer

Gets its color setting from its layer

objects

Graphical drawing elements, such as lines,arcs, circle, polylines, and text

An RGB color number of 0,255,0 is what color

Green

Which of the following settings does NOT allow you to control point specifications

Grid

Cartesian coordinate system

Grid based system where points are represented by their x and y coordinate values

Selection set

Group of one or more objects selected in a drawing

The default units in AutoCAd are

Inches

Command line

Interface used to enter commands using the keyboard and display command prompts

the LTSCALE setting

Is a global scale factor applied to all objects' linetypes

The HATCHEDIT command

Is used to modify hatch patterns

Polar array

Items copied in a circular pattern

rectangular array

Items copied in a rectangular pattern of rows and columns

Paper space is primarily used for

Laying out multiple 2D sheets for plotting purposes

Which of the following is NOT a property common to all objects

Length

The system variable that controls whether the middle mouse button activates the Pan tool is

MBUTTONPAN

The system variable that controls whether text is reversed when it is mirrored is

MIRRTEXT

Drawing Window

Main window in AutoCAD where you create and modify drawing objects

CHAMFER command

Moves objects a user-supplied distance and angle

MOVE command

Moves objects a user-supplied distance and angle

STRETCH command

Moves or stretches objects a user-supplied distance or angle

Ploygon

Multi sided polyline object created by inputting the number of sides

scale factor

Multiplier applied to annotation features such as text and dimensions

Dimensions

Must be erased and redrawn if the model changes

AutoCAD linetypes

Must be loaded into the drawing before they can be used

Surveyor's units

N32d8'26"E

the Zoom tools are located on the

Navigation bar

A hatch boundary

None of the above

A one-color gradient fill transitions only between

None of the above

selecting objects first and then selecting a modify command is reffed to as what type of editing process

Noun/verb

Hard-coded object properties

Object properties set independently of an object's layer

layer

Object property used to organize drawing information

Alignment path

Object snap tracking vector used to locate a point

running object snap

Object snaps that are on continuously

Copying an object parallel to an existing object is called

Offsetting

The system variable that allows you to suppress the object selected is not a polyline prompt when converting an arc or line into a polyline using the PEDIT command is named

PEDITACCEPT

The system variable that controls whether an old-format poly line is created or a new optimized poly line is created when you use the PLINE command is named

PLINETYPE

Pan tool

Pans interactively

The Zoom Window tool zooms in your drawing when you

Pick two points

The box that appears at the mouse cross hairs when you are prompted to select objects is called

Pickbox

Rectangle

Polyline object with four sides that can be created with two points

Turning a layer off

Prevents objects on the layer from being seen

In the FILLET command, when selecting the objects to fillet, holding down the <SHIFT> key

Puts a 0 radius corner at the intersection of the two objects

The two major different snap styles are

Rectangular and polar

Grid mode

Rectangular pattern of evenly spaced lines

The @ symbol is used to denote

Relative coordinate entry

ERASE command

Removes objects from a drawing

Ortho mode

Restricts cursor movement to the horizontal x and vertical y axes

Zoom Previous tool

Returns to the previously zoomed view

ROTATE command

Rotates objects a user-supplied rotation angle around a user-specified base point

While creating a rectangular array, the array angle

Rotates the array

Quadratic B_spline

Rougher of the B-spline curves

Donut

Round polyline object that can be a ring or a solid circle

SCALE command

Scales objects a user-supplied distance and angle

Acquired point

Selected point used to create complex object snaps

In the TRIM command, when asked to select cutting edges, pressing <ENTER>

Selects all of the objects in the drawing as cutting edges

Turning an object snap on via the Object Snap tab of the Drafting Settings dialog box is referred to as

Setting a running object snap

The dashed ling that appears around the edge of a layout

Shows a visual indication of the area that will be printed

Grips

Small squares that appear when an object is selected

Arc fit polyline

Smooth polyline curve consisting of arcs joining each pair of vertex points with the curve padding through all vertices

Spline fit polyline

Smooth polyline curve that uses the vertices of the selected polyline as the control points to create an approximate B-spline

Cubic B-spline

Smoother of the B-spline curves

Which of the following is not a valid method for constructing an arc

Start, End, Length

In the following command line prompt, what would you ty[e to use the Ttr option? Specify center point for circle or [3P 2P Ttr (tan tan radius)]

T<enter>

right hand rule

Technique for visualizing the x,y, and z axes

Construction line

Temporary lines used to lay out a drawing

Object snap override

Temporary object snap that can be used for one pick point

Drawing limits

The active drawing area. In layout space, it determines the size of your paper

Gap tolerance

The allowable open area allowed when detecting boundary edges

Hatch boundary

The edges of a hatched area

linetype

The pattern of a line

Hatch pattern

The pattern used to fill a hatched area

Lineweight

The printed width of a line

Hatching

The process of filling in a closed area with a pattern

Panning

The process of moving around the drawing by shifting the display

Fillets radius

The radius of a rounded intersection

Boundary set

The set of objects used when detecting boundary edges

The boundary set is

The set of objects used when detecting boundary edges

object properties

The settings that control how and where a drawing object is shown in the drawing

In a rectangular array, the row distance represents

The vertical (Y) spacing of the arrayed objects

A circle can be drawn tangent to three objects

True

A layout can have only one viewport

True

A search filter takes effect only while the LAYER command is still active

True

All objects in an AutoCAD drawing have a layer property

True

An ellipse must have different major and minor axis lengths

True

Annotaion features such as text and dimensions must usally be scaled by the reciprocal of the drawing's plotted scale to appear the correct size

True

Architectural units are based on imperial (feet-inch) units

True

AutoCAd creates a backup file with a .BAK extension each time you save a drawing

True

DesignCenter can be used to create hatch objects

True

Dimensions can update to follow changes to your geometry

True

Drawing tools can be toggled on and off when a command is active

True

Hatch patterns are defined in .PAT files

True

If you zoom in as far as you can using the Zoom Realtime tool and you cannot zoom any farther, you should use the REGEN command to recalculate your display

True

It is possible to convert a curve fit polyline back into its original straight line segments

True

It is possible to create a window, crossing, or lasso selection using only one pick point

True

It is possible to create polylines that have a varying width from vertex point to vertex point

True

It is possible to draw a rectangle by specifying its total area

True

It is possible to enter a negative rotation angle when using the ROTATE command

True

It is possible to join multiple objects into one continuous polyline even when all the objects are not connect

True

It is possible to remove drawing tool buttons temporarily from the status bar

True

It is possible to select more than one grip at a time using the <SHIFT> key

True

It is possible to snap to the intersection of the two lines even if they don't visually cross but would if they were extended

True

It is possible to zoom past the extents of a drawing using the Zoom All tool

True

Layer 0 can not be deleted

True

Layer states can be exported and shared between multiple drawings

True

Layers can be imported from other drawing files

True

Line-types can be modified, and new line-types can be created

True

Model space is where you create most of the line work and text that represents your design

True

Modifying hatch boundary objects can result in losing associativity with their hatch patterns

True

Object snaps work only when you are prompted for a point at the command line

True

Objects on a layer that is turned off can still be modified

True

Polar tracking can be set to detect any angle

True

Polylines can be used to calculate an enclosed area

True

Text objects are treated as closed objects when determining a boundary

True

The BREAK command requires two separate points when breaking a circle

True

The DIVIDE command will break an object into pieces of equal length

True

The MEASURE command is used to measure the distance between two points

True

The color property of objects can be used to determine the object's line thickness when it is plotted

True

The displacement distance for the MOVE, COPY, and STRETCH commands is always relative

True

The main focus of the AutoCAD user interface is the drawing window

True

The mouse pointer changes from an arrow to a hand when the Pan tool is selected

True

The traditional approach to modifying objects in AutoCAD is to select the command first and the select the objects to modify

True

The window, crossing, and lasso selection option can be initiated automatically

True

There are two different types of polylines

True

There is only one model space allowed in a drawing file

True

When zooming using the mouse wheel, each click of the wheel zooms in or out by 10%

True

You can create only one hatch pattern at a time with the HATCH command

True

You can only use the REDO command immediatley after using the UNDO command

True

You can override page setup settings when you plot

True

a fillet radius can be drawn between two parallel objects

True

a layer can be deleted only if it is unused in the drawing

True

the EXTEND command can be used to trim objects

True

the MATCHPROP and PAINTER commands do the same thing

True

The clean Screen toggle allows you to

Turn off the ribbon and palettes

To convert an arc to a circle

Use the JOIN command

Entering a command transparently allows you to

Use the command while another command is already active

When creating a polar array, entering a negative angle to fill

Will copy in the clockwise direction

Double-clicking the mouse wheel will

Zoom extents

To make drawing objects appear larger on screen, you should

Zoom in

Zoom Realtime tool

Zooms interactively

Zoom Window tool

Zooms to a user-defined rectangular area

Zoom All tool

Zooms to the drawing limits

Zoom Extents tool

Zooms to the outermost visible drawing objects

dimension style

a collection of dimension settings that control how dimension objects act and are displayed

The Island Detection option

all of the above

By default, the polylines arcs created using the PLINE command's Arc option are

b and c

Using Cad requires that you scale your drawing as you create it so everything will fit on the printed paper size

false

A page setup

is a collection of plot settings

To draw a solid donut when using the DONUT command, specify an inside diameter

of 0.0000

Building a section set

the process of specifying the objects you wish to edit

Scrolling the wheel mouse will

zoom the drawing in and out


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