Design for Manufacturing Professional Certification Prep

Outline

Pre-test

Before you begin this course, test your skills by taking the following assessment to see where you stand. Keep track of your incorrect answers to know which skills you should study. You'll have a chance to take this same practice test again at the end of the course to see how you've improved.

All questions must be answered to submit your assessment.

Pre-test

37 questions

1.
A mechanical engineer invites a collaborator to their project to inspect a design for additive manufacturability. The engineer requests that the collaborator verify that the internal cavities of the part can be manufactured on their additive machine. However, when the collaborator opens the file, they do not see any internal geometry. Which of the following tools can be used to inspect any internal geometry within the part?

Deposition Analysis
Draft Analysis
Section Analysis
Accessibility Analysis

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2. A mechanical engineer is creating geometry with several holes that will be used to mount it to a wall using bolts. Multiple hole sizes are added to regions of the part. The engineer is unsure of what bolt size is available in their shop but wants to get the design finalized before checking. What workflow will enable the engineer to add placeholder dimensions for all bolt sizes and quickly modify them once confirming available hardware?

Dimension one hole and apply a Fix/UnFix constraint to all other holes. Only the dimensioned hole will need to be changed to modify the remaining bolt sizes
Create a parameter for each unique bolt size and use it to dimension the holes. Once hardware dimensions are confirmed, modify parameter values.
Dimension all the holes individually with anticipated diameters and redefine them all after confirming hardware dimensions.
Dimension one hole and apply an equal constraint between the dimensioned hole and all other holes. Only the dimensioned hole will need to be changed to modify the remaining bolt sizes

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3. A mechanical engineer wishes to create a ballooned drawing of their exploded view created in the Animation workspace. How can the engineer create the drawing?

In the Design workspace, right-click the top-level component and select Create Drawing
In the Animation workspace, select Publish > Exploded View Drawing
From the Workspace dropdown menu, select Drawing > From Animation
Drawings cannot be made for exploded views, only single components, and assemblies

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4. A mechanical engineer has created a part and produced a cloud render for it in the Render workspace. The engineer would like to create a render each time a change is made to the design and saved in an attempt to document the design process. How can the engineer accomplish this by automatically creating renders for each saved change?

The engineer must manually create the renders as there is no such automatic function
Drag and drop a previously configured render in the “Render on Save” tab of the Rendering Gallery to automatically generate renders
The engineer must select the “Post-processing” option on a previously configured render in the Rendering Gallery and select “Render on Save”
The engineer must select the Auto-Render option by opening a previously configured render in the Rendering Gallery

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5. A mechanical engineer is creating a complex sketch that contains a closed profile with several curved sketch entities such as splines and arcs. The engineer uses multiple lines to fully define the curved entities. When the engineer goes to extrude the closed profile, they are unable to select only the desired regions because of the overlapping lines that were used to define the splines and arcs. How can the engineer resolve this issue and correctly select a profile to extrude?

Change the Selection mode to Paint Selection
Convert the reference lines to construction geometry
Add driven dimensions to the reference lines
Fix the reference lines using the Fix/UnFix constraint

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6.
A mechanical engineer is experimenting with creating a handle feature with the Rib tool. As pictured in the exhibit, what option in the Rib tool dialog distinguishes Feature A from Feature B?

Depth Options > To Next
Thickness Options > One Direction
Feature B cannot be created using the Rib tool
Depth Options > Depth

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7. A mechanical engineer is creating a drawing for a drone assembly. The colleague requested that the drawing report mass information for all components, however when the engineer creates the Parts List table, there is no mass column. What should the engineer do?

Right-click on the table and select Columns > Mass
Double-click on the table and enable the Mass column in the Parts List menu
Right-click on the table entry in the Browser and select Columns > Mass
The mass cannot be reported in a Parts List drawing, the engineer must report that data somewhere else

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8.
A Mechanical Engineer is determining optimal setup orientations for a part that is to be milled on a 2.5 axis CNC machine. For the part pictured in the exhibit, which numbered region would have a red colorization if an Accessibility Analysis is performed using the XY plane as the direction?

Region 1
Region 2
Region 4
Region 3

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9. What distinguishes the Component Color Swatch functionality from Component Color Cycling?

Component Color Swatch affects the colorization of components in the Design window and the Timeline while Component Color Cycling only affects the component-specific operations in the Timeline
Component Color Swatch only applies a colorization to component-specific operations in the Timeline while Component Color Cycling also affects the components in the Design window
Component Color Swatch changes the Physical Material of components while Component Color Cycling changes the Appearance of components
There is no difference, both have the same functionality

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10. A mechanical engineer creates a Cylinder primitive using the Form toolset and is attempting to connect a sink drain to the outlet. When using Edit Form to rotate the primitive and extrude, undesired distortions appear. Which workflow in the Form toolset is better suited for this application?

Create a 3D spline that connects the start and end points and use the Pipe tool to create the tube.
Create a 3D spline that connects the start and end points and use the Revolve tool to create the tube
Create a 3D spline that connects the start and end points and use the Thicken tool to turn the sketch into the tube.
There is no alternative to using the Cylinder primitive in conjunction with Edit Form

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11.
A mechanical engineer is looking to perform a sweep operation for a circular profile along a curved path. The engineer would like to create the circular profile between the path and guide rail pictured in Figure A of the exhibit. How can the engineer get only the reference points for a 2-Point Circle on the active sketch plane, as shown in Figure B?

This cannot be done in the current active sketch plane; the points must have been added in the original curved profile sketches
Use the Intersect tool to obtain the points at which the curved sketch profiles meet the active sketch plane
Use the Intersection Curve tool to obtain the points at which the curved sketch profiles meet the active sketch plane
Use the Project tool to obtain the points at which the curved sketch profiles meet the active sketch plane

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12.
When working with the Form toolset in the Design workspace, a mechanical engineer creates a Cylinder primitive as shown in the exhibit. Which of the pictured Cylinder primitive dialogs corresponds to the form body?

Configuration 2
Configuration 1
Configuration 4
Configuration 3

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13.
What is the least number of setups that can be used to manufacture the part pictured in the exhibit using a 3-axis milling configuration?

1
2
3
More than 3

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14. A mechanical engineer is designing a part that will have several intricate geometries and will be subject to high temperature environments. The part itself will not be encountering any significant loading during operation. Which of the following additive manufacturing process and material configurations is most reasonable to produce a high-resolution prototype of the described part with the desired properties?

DED with titanium alloy powder
FDM with PLA filament
SLA with a high temp resin
SLM with aluminum powder

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15. A mechanical engineer creates a drawing for a large assembly and places a Parts List table. The engineer notices that ballooned numbers are automatically populated on the associated view, but they are all incorrectly numbered. How can the engineer resolve this issue?

The engineer can launch the Renumber tool from the Tables menu and select the balloons in the proper sequence
The engineer must double-click on the table in the Part Number column and type out the correct number associated to each component
The numbering is dependent on the order in which components were designed and cannot be modified unless the design is recreated in the appropriate order
The engineer can launch the Align Balloons tool from the Tables menu and select the balloons in the proper sequence

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16.
Pictured in the exhibit is a Browser for a bracket mounting assembly. Which of the entities, if modified, will carry its changes to an externally linked design?

Construction Block: 1
Mount Plate
Brace Mounts
TI64 Unrestricted Outcome v1:1

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17.
A mechanical engineer is designing a traffic cone and would like to define a parametric Extrude operation that uses the sketch pictured in Figure A of the exhibit to create the opening shown in Figure B. The parametric relationship should be able to update the operation if the height of the cone changes. Which of the pictured Extrude operation dialogs can accomplish this assuming any selected objects are the bottom base of the cone?

Select 2 answers below.

Configuration 1
Configuration 3
Configuration 4
Configuration 2
Configuration 5

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18.
A mechanical engineer is modeling a curved pipe using the Surface toolset in the Design workspace. The engineer has finalized the surface body of the pipe, as seen in Figure A of the exhibit and would like to convert it to a solid body as seen in Figure B. What tool in the Surface toolset can accomplish this?

Create > Thicken
Create > Convert to Solid
Modify > Press Pull
Create > Extrude

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19.
Which of the following Browser options was used to modify the visual appearance of the bracket component?

The component was isolated
The component’s opacity was reduced
All appearances for the component were removed
The component was grounded

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20. A mechanical engineer has imported a model of a car bumper into Fusion 360. The model contains several connected surface bodies that the engineer would like to convert into a single solid body. What workflow can the engineer use to do this?

Stitch all the surface bodies together and use the Convert to Solid tool to create a single solid body
Stitch all the surface bodies together and use the Patch tool to create a single solid body
This cannot be accomplished using the Surface toolset
Stitch all the surface bodies together and use the Thicken tool to create a single solid body

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21. A mechanical engineer imports a bracket subassembly into a larger assembly for positioning and motion analysis. When the engineer applies a joint to a component in the smaller subassembly, only the selected component is correctly positioned while the remaining components remain in their original locations. How can this be resolved?

Use the Freeze/UnFreeze tool on the entire subassembly to ensure they are joined
Individual Rigid joints must be created for all components within the subassembly before applying a joint with the larger assembly
Create a Rigid Group for the subassembly prior to adding it to the larger assembly and applying the joint
Ground the imported subassembly before applying the joint

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22.
What type of construction plane was used to create the plane shown in the exhibit?

Plane at Angle
Plane Along Path
Plane Through Spline
Offset Plane

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23.
Referring to the sketch in the exhibit, what sequence of selections could have been made to define symmetry constraints between the annotated geometry? Select all that apply.

Select 2 answers below.

D, A, E
A, E, B
B, E, C
C, E, B
A, D, E

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24.
A mechanical engineer would like to use an FDM additive manufacturing process to produce the geometry pictured in the exhibit. Which of the pictured orientations should the engineer select if they want no supports in the mount holes and minimal supports everywhere else?

Orientation 4
Orientation 3
Orientation 2
Orientation 1

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25. An engineer is transforming components in an assembly in the Animation workspace. Which of the following workflows will enable the engineer to ensure that each transformation is recorded as its own segment such that they can be modified at a later time?

With the Transform tool active, select the component(s) of interest and toggle the “Split Transforms” option prior to moving them
With the Transform tool active, select the component(s) of interest and toggle the “Trail Line Visibility” option prior to moving them
This functionality is not possible, all consecutive movements on a selection of components will be recorded as a single operation
With the Transform tool active, select the component(s) of interest and enter each numerical transformation followed by a comma to segment them

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26. When a user first opens the Render workspace for a design, which of the following is true of the assigned backdrop?

The default backdrop is the same as that of the Design workspace and needs to be tuned for the render
The default backdrop is the last environment that was used in another render or the user is prompted to select the environment immediately upon opening the Render workspace
The default backdrop is a solid color
There is no backdrop in the Render workspace, only in the Animation workspace

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27. An engineer has animated the exploded view of a large assembly. The engineer would like to create the animations to return the components to their home positions but wants to ensure that the explosion animations remain independent. How can the engineer achieve this?

Create a New Storyboard > Clean
The desired outcome is not possible; in the new storyboard, the components must be re-exploded while in the Scratch Zone then reverted while in the timeline
Create a New Storyboard > Auto-Assemble
Create a New Storyboard > Start from end of previous

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28.
For the assembly pictured in the exhibit, an engineer is looking to restrict the Slider joint motion of the annotated shaft. What workflow should be used to prevent the shaft from extending out past its desired boundaries?

Capture the position of the shaft at its minimum, intermediate, and maximum locations to calibrate the joint
Joints cannot be restricted
Edit the Joint Limits for the slider assigned to the shaft and assign a Minimum and Maximum distance within which the shaft can move
Ground the components connected to the shaft to prevent it from extending past them

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29. A mechanical engineer is attempting to find a component from the Browser in the design, but it is obstructed by several other components. Which of the following Browser options will enable the engineer to focus on only the desired component?

Look At
Ground
Isolate
Remove all except selected

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30. Which of the following options in the Scene Settings menu of the Render workspace can be used to toggle the shadow of model(s) in the design?

Shadows cannot be toggled off in the Scene Settings menu, only the Display Settings
Object Shadow
Ground Plane
Object Backdrop

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31.
Which of the following joint types should be used to achieve the motion pictured for the bolt in the exhibit?

Cylindrical
Ball
Screw Helix
Planar

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32. Which of the following is a requirement to create a Turntable render for an assembly?

The Turntable render can only be created if a Motion Link for the rotation of the assembly is defined in the Design workspace
Turntable renders cannot be created for assemblies, only individual components, or bodies
The Turntable render can only be created from a previously rendered outcome in the Rendering Gallery
The animation for the Turntable render must first be created in the Animation workspace

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33.
Refer to the selected region of the Form body in the Exhibit. When raising the selection 0.5cm using Edit Form, what option distinguishes outcome A from outcome B?

Outcome A was scaled up 0.5cm instead of outcome B which was translated up 0.5cm
An extrusion using the ALT key was made to create Outcome B
The boundaries outside the selection of outcome A were Frozen prior to raising it
Soft Modification was enabled when raising the selection for outcome B

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34. An engineer is creating a Parts List for an assembly in the Drawing workspace but notices the Material column is incorrectly reporting the material for all components as Steel, despite the engineer already assigning the Appearances. Which of the following should be done?

The components must be hidden in the Browser of the Design workspace; the visibility should be toggled on
Steel is a place holder material and the user must double-click it to modify it with the correct material
The Appearances should be reassigned in the Render workspace
The Physical Material, not the Appearance, should be assigned to the components

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35. An engineer is creating several comments with snapshots in their design for a colleague. What functionality can be used to save the orientation of the part so that the engineer can return to the view if they accidentally orbit the model while making the comments?

There is no such functionality
Grounding the component in place
Capturing the position of the model
Creating a Named View

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36. A mechanical engineer has spent significant time designing a part and realizes midway through their modeling process that the Front view should correspond to a different region of the model. How can the engineer correct this error?

Use the Look At option to orient the model to the correct region, then select the Front face of the View Cube to reassign it
Orient the model to the region corresponding to the actual Front view, right-click the View Cube, and select Set current view as > Front
This cannot be done; the engineer must restart the modeling process
Create a construction plane parallel to the correct region, right-click and select Set current plane as > Front

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37. A mechanical engineer is designing a drone for a competition in which the mass is the primary criteria. The engineer has completed the design and would like to assign the appropriate materials and check the mass of the drone. How should the engineer proceed?

The mass of a design cannot be viewed; it must be manufactured and physically weighed
(1) Assign a Physical Material to the component of interest (2) select Export for manufacturing in the Tools tab of the Design Workspace (3) select Utilities > Manage Materials to view the mass
(1) Assign an Appearance to the component of interest (2) right-click it in the Browser (3) select Properties to view the mass
(1) Assign a Physical Material to the component of interest (2) right-click it in the Browser (3) select Properties to view the mass

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