Solidworks Sketching and 2D Drawing 5 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: Which SolidWorks sketch tool creates a polygon with all sides equal and all vertices equidistant from a center point?
- Rectangle
- Polygon (Correct answer)
- Ellipse
- Parallelogram
Correct answer: Polygon
The Polygon tool lets you specify the number of sides and whether to inscribe or circumscribe the polygon relative to a circle, producing a regular polygon.
Question 2: In a SolidWorks drawing, what is a 'broken-out section view' used for?
- Showing a portion of the interior by removing a user-defined area of material (Correct answer)
- Cutting the entire part along a defined plane
- Displaying a scaled-up detail of a small feature
- Projecting an auxiliary view from an angled face
Correct answer: Showing a portion of the interior by removing a user-defined area of material
A broken-out section view exposes internal features by removing a closed spline-bounded region of the drawing view, without creating a full section cut.
Question 3: What does the 'Dynamic Mirror' sketch tool do in SolidWorks?
- Mirrors selected entities about a line after they are drawn
- Automatically mirrors new sketch entities about a centerline in real time as you draw (Correct answer)
- Creates a mirror copy of the entire sketch about the Y-axis
- Reflects the sketch about the model's plane of symmetry
Correct answer: Automatically mirrors new sketch entities about a centerline in real time as you draw
Dynamic Mirror activates a live mirroring mode so that each entity you draw is simultaneously duplicated symmetrically about the selected mirror line.
Question 4: Which relation would you apply to force the endpoint of a line to lie exactly on a circle's circumference?
- Tangent
- Coincident (Correct answer)
- Concentric
- Collinear
Correct answer: Coincident
A Coincident relation between a point and a circle forces that point to lie on the circle entity (its circumference), not at its center.
Question 5: In a SolidWorks 2D drawing, 'reference dimensions' (also called driven dimensions) are displayed how?
- In bold with an asterisk
- In parentheses (Correct answer)
- With a REF tag beneath them
- In a dashed box
Correct answer: In parentheses
Reference (driven) dimensions are shown in parentheses in SolidWorks drawings to distinguish them from driving dimensions that control the geometry.
Question 6: What is the purpose of the 'Intersection Curve' sketch tool in SolidWorks?
- Trims sketch entities where they cross each other
- Creates a sketch curve where two surfaces or a surface and a plane intersect (Correct answer)
- Projects silhouette edges of the part onto the sketch plane
- Finds the midpoint between two curves
Correct answer: Creates a sketch curve where two surfaces or a surface and a plane intersect
Intersection Curve generates a 3D sketch entity (or 2D if on a plane) that represents the exact intersection line between two selected surfaces or between a surface and the active sketch plane.
Question 7: When setting up a SolidWorks drawing sheet, what does the 'scale' property in Sheet Properties control?
- The size of annotation text
- The ratio between model dimensions and their representation on the sheet for views that inherit sheet scale (Correct answer)
- The zoom level of the screen display only
- The paper size printed by the default printer
Correct answer: The ratio between model dimensions and their representation on the sheet for views that inherit sheet scale
The sheet scale sets the default display ratio (e.g., 1:2) for all drawing views placed on that sheet that are set to use the sheet scale rather than a custom scale.
Solidworks Sketching and 2D Drawing 5
Which SolidWorks sketch tool creates a polygon with all sides equal and all vertices equidistant from a center point?