AutoCAD electrical quizzes with answers and PDF eBook

1. Which user interface element should you leave open all the time in AutoCAD Electrical?

2. Which of the following ribbon tabs are specific to AutoCAD Electrical as opposed to Vanilla AutoCAD?

3. Which of the following tools enables navigation between panel and schematic representations of the same component, even if they are on separate drawings?

4. Which of the following user interface elements remain unused in AutoCAD Electrical and can be safely turned off in the program Options?

5. Which of the following user interface elements would you utilize if you had not yet decided upon a manufacturer and part number, but still wanted to add a specific component symbol to a drawing?

1. What can you do to cause the Previous and Next Project Drawing (arrow icons) to leave drawing tabs   open after you switch to the previous or next project drawing?

2. Which of the following standard acronyms represents the national standards of China?

3. What is the file extension for ASCII project files in AutoCAD Electrical?

4. What is the replaceable parameter code which represents the Sheet Number as a string?

5. Which tool is used to change the way drawings are shown in the Project Manager?

1. After updating the drawing property “Description 1,” what must you do to cause that information to show up on its associated title block?

2. In an exploded title block when copying an existing attribute and using it for a new purpose, which aspect of attribute definitions must have a unique value?

3. What must you name an attribute tag to hold the current date?

4. What is the name of AutoCAD Electrical’s invisible attribute which stores information right on the title block’s base drawing?

5. What must you name an ASCII text file containing custom labels for project description line numbers such as “LINE4 = Engineer,” for example?

1. Which of the following tools is used to move the buses of a ladder?

2. Which of the following tools allows you to add a single wire connecting the buses of a single ladder?

3. Why would ??? appear as attribute values when creating signal arrows on ladder buses?

4. What is the name of a wire number’s default layer?

5. How many unique wire numbers can the wires in an electrically connected network that contains 3 wires have?

1. Which of the following tools is used to transfer a component from one wire to another?

2. Which of the following tools allows you to transfer a single component to a new location along a wire?

3. Where can you save frequently used circuits for easy reuse on another day?

4. Which of the following does not insert schematic components?

5. You have just defined a new circuit as a block. Which tool would you use to add this circuit to the User Circuits page of the Icon Menu?

1. Which tool would you use to efficiently add 15 terminals to the rungs of a ladder?

2. Which tool would you use to insert jumpers between terminals?

3. What does the following user interface represent?

4. How many splice components are there to choose from in the Icon Menu?

5. Which button allows you to add descriptors to connector pins in the Insert / Edit Component dialog box?

1. Which tool creates a PLC which can adjust its point spacing to match the rung spacing of the ladder where it is inserted?

2. Which tool inserts a single fixed PLC symbol block with multiple in/out points?

3. What does the following symbol represent?

4. Which button would you click to list Line 1 component descriptions on wires connected to a PLC?

5. Which tool can create a set of PLC I/O drawings sourced from spreadsheet data?

1. Which tool would you use to insert a schematic component from an existing project drawing as a footprint on a panel drawing?

2. Which button inside the Schematic Components dialog box allows you to access picking a “just like footprint” in an existing panel drawing?

3. What are the numbered circles below examples of?

4. What does the green outline in the following picture represent?

5. What does the letter G represent inside this button footprint?

1. Which of the following file types can you export reports in?

2. Which of the following panel reports allows you to include both component footprints and nameplates in the report?

3. To run automatic reports, which file type represents the format file which is output from the Report Format Setup command?

4. Which type of report can the Missing Catalog Data command output?

5. Which command identifies duplicate wire numbers in the active drawing or project?