AutoCAD for Design and Drafting 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-assessment

57 questions

1. A few weeks after sending a client a shared file link, a CAD designer receives a complaint that the link is not working. What is the reason that the shared link no longer works?

The shared drawing had been renamed.
Shared links expire after (7) days.
The shared drawing had been deleted.
The CAD designer retracted the shared link.

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2. Refer to exhibit.

In the floor plan shown, the visual properties of the walls and doors should match. Both layers, A-WALL and A-DOOR, have the color property set to CYAN. Which layer property should be modified so that the objects on both layers appear the same?

Linetype
Transparency
Freeze
Color

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3. While drawing a line, which two symbols would be used to enter relative polar coordinates? (Select two.)

Select 2 answers below.

<
@
!
*
;

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4. The BOUNDARY command is taking a long time to create a boundary in a complex drawing. What should a CAD designer do to improve the efficiency of this command?

Change the boundary object type to Region.
Purge and audit the current drawing.
When picking an internal point, pick a point closer to the potential boundary objects.
Create a Boundary set by selecting fewer objects to be analyzed.

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5. Refer to exhibit.

While using the WBLOCK command to export a block to a drawing file, a CAD Designer notices that the Base point option is disabled. What would cause this?

The current drawing needs to be saved before WBLOCK can export the block.
The current drawing’s base point will be used as the exported drawing’s base point.
The block’s base point is already defined in the block definition.
No block has been selected in the dialog yet.

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6. Refer to exhibit.

A CAD designer notices that an arc (represented in red in the exhibit) is missing from a drawing. Which two Arc methods could be used to draw the missing arc? (Select two.)

Select 2 answers below.

Start, Center, Length
Continue
Start, End, Direction
Start, Center, Angle
Center, Start, Length

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7. What workflow should a CAD designer use to make it possible to edit grips simultaneously?

Press and hold the Control key down while selecting grips.
Press and hold the Shift key down while selecting grips.
Select grips using the STRETCH command.
Right-click on each grip as it’s selected.

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8. Refer to exhibit.

What AutoCAD feature is indicated by the green dotted reference lines shown in the exhibit?

Object snap tracking
Dynamic Input
User Coordinate Systems
Snap Mode

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9. The current drawing is missing a number of predefined annotation scales. What should be done to resolve this?

Use the Reset option in the SCALELISTEDIT command.
Insert another drawing that contains the missing annotation scales.
Use the AUDIT command to correct any missing annotation scale issues.
Use the SCALE command.

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10. The Quick Access toolbar (Tool bar) can be customized by using what method? [Note: Mac terminology appears in parenthesis.]

Double-click on any empty space on the Quick Access toolbar (Tool bar).
Left-click and drag any tool from the ribbon and place it on the Quick Access toolbar (Tool bar).
Click the Customize icon in the lower right corner.
Right-click on the Quick Access Toolbar (Tool bar) and choose Customize.

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11. Refer to exhibit.

A CAD designer has received feedback that the company no longer wants to use the hand-lettered type font in tables. What should the designer do to ensure that existing and future tables comply with this request?

Use SelectSimilar to select all tables. Use the Properties palette to change the text style.
Explode the table and change the text style of all hand-lettered text.
Edit the table style and change the Data cell style to use a different font file.
Edit the table style and change the Data cell style to use a different text style.

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12. Refer to exhibit.

The selected dimension text in the exhibit has been moved and needs to be restored to its original location. Which multifunctional grip function should be used?

Move Text Only
Reset Text Position
Stretch
Move with Dim Line

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13. While comparing two drawings, a CAD designer would like to import selected objects from the compared drawing into the current drawing. What is the most efficient workflow that could be used?

Use the Import Objects feature.
Attach the compared drawing as an xref and bind it to import objects.
Use DesignCenter to import the changes.
Toggle the visibility to only show the compared drawing and use the clipboard to copy/paste objects into the current drawing.

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14. While reviewing a drawing, a CAD designer notices that the objects in a paper space viewport are a different color than they are in model space. What would cause this to occur?

The paper space layout does not have a page setup assigned.
The objects’ color has been set to ByBlock
A color override has been applied to the layers in the viewport.
A color override has been applied to the objects in the viewport.

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15. Refer to exhibit.

The holes for the original gasket design were created as a rectangular array. In the revised gasket, the upper-right hole needs to be positioned where the yellow centerlines are shown. What should the CAD designer do to update the array?

Use the Control key to select the circle in the array and use its grip to move it to the new location.
Use the ERASE command to remove the upper-right circle from the array, and draw a circle at the new location.
Delete the existing array and recreate it without the upper-right circle. Draw a new circle in the new location.
Use the STRETCH command, selecting the circle with a crossing polygon, to move the circle to the new location.

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16. When adding sheets to a PUBLISH sheet list, a CAD designer notices that the imported list includes Model and Layout tabs. What can they do when adding sheets to only add Layout tabs in the future?

Deselect Automatically load all open drawings.
Select drawings that only contain layouts.
Change the Include option to Layout.
Select the layouts only.

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17. Refer to exhibit.

A CAD designer copies a tree elevation from another drawing to the clipboard. While pasting it on a new elevation, the insertion point for the tree is at (A) instead of at the base of the tree trunk (B) as preferred. What should the designer do to ensure that the objects paste as preferred?

Use the Copy with Basepoint command.
Use Paste As Block instead of Paste.
Use the Paste to Original Coordinates command.
While pasting, right-click and choose a new base point.

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18. Refer to exhibit.

[Note: AutoCAD for Mac uses the Project Manager for sheet lists and sheet sets. The Mac terminology is included in parenthesis below. See the AutoCAD for Mac Help documentation for further details.]

A CAD designer has used Sheet Set Manager (Project Manager) to create the sheet index shown in the exhibit and prefers that the sheets are shown their respective discipline subsets (groups). What setting should be used when creating the sheet list (layout)?

Use Show Subheader option
Change the data type in the Column Settings.
Change the order in the Column Settings.
Use Populate from sheet selection.

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19. Refer to exhibit.

A CAD designer needs to create a layer filter that includes architectural layers (with an A- prefix) that contain objects. The filter should also be defined to accommodate any architectural layers brought in in the future from attached or bound references. After defining the initial filter shown in the exhibit, the preview is showing some unwanted layers. Which of the following filter definitions will provide the desired results?

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20. After restoring the World Coordinate System, a CAD designer notices that a previously created User Coordinate System (UCS) is no longer available. What step did the designer forget to take?

Save the drawing.
Select a UCS origin.
Assign the UCS.
Save the UCS.

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21. A CAD designer needs to combine the content within an attached xref into the current drawing. The xref's layers should remain distinct from those in the current drawing. What xref method will accomplish this?

Explode the xref.
Detach the xref and insert the dwg as an exploded block.
Bind the xref using the Insert option.
Bind the xref using the Bind option.

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22. Refer to exhibit.

When hovering over one of a polyline's grips, the dimensions displayed in the exhibit indicate what setting is turned on?

Tooltips are turned on.
MEASUREGEOM quick mode is enabled.
Dimensional constraints have been applied to the polyline.
Dynamic Input is enabled.

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23. A CAD designer wants the Properties palette to remain open (visible) but also wants to use a much of the screen as possible for the drawing canvas. What palette settings can be changed to achieve this?

Anchor the palette to the side of the screen.
Turn off the Auto-hide feature.
Change the palette’s background color to match the drawing area.
Apply a transparency to the palette.

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24. Refer to exhibit.

A CAD designer has imported client markups as a trace in the current drawing. During the import, Markup Assist reported that markups were detected, but when the designer turns on TRACEVIEW, the markups don’t appear to be identified. What does the designer need to do?

Delete the trace and reimport it.
Turn on Markup Assist mode via the toolbar.
Click the settings icon and adjust transparency.
The redlines need to be selected first to display the identified markup.

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25. A CAD designer restores a file from an online backup of a past project but is unable to open it. What should be done?

Use the AUDIT command to attempt to fix the file.
Use the RECOVER command to attempt to fix the file.
Attach the corrupt drawing as an xref to another drawing.
Use the Drawing Recovery Manager to attempt to open the corrupt file.

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26. A CAD designer has applied lineweights to the layers but doesn’t have a quick way to toggle the lineweight display on or off. What change should be made to the interface to make it easier to toggle lineweight visibility?

Customize the status bar to include the Lineweight toggle.
Use the LWDISPLAY command.
Use the CUI editor to make the Lineweight toggle visible on the status bar.
Create a command alias in the ACAD.PGP file to toggle the lineweight display.

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27. Refer to exhibit.

When moving a palette to the left side of the screen, the palette changes into a box as shown in the exhibit, indicating it’s going to be docked. When this occurs, what should be done to prevent the palette from docking?

Double-click on the docked palette's title bar to undock it.
Press and hold the Control key and release the left mouse button.
Press the Tab key to cycle through all the docking options.
Right-click on the palette before moving it and select the Auto-hide option.

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28. Refer to exhibit.

In the exhibit at the left, all the computers are the same color (magenta). When a CAD designer selects them, however, the Properties palette shows the color property as "VARIES". The blocks are all on the same CPU layer and that layer's color is set to Magenta. Why would the Properties palette report "VARIES" for the color property?

Some of the selected objects have a color override.
One or more of the blocks contains objects not created on layer 0.
Some objects within the block definition have a color override.
The colors of the selected objects are not ByLayer.

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29. After combining a collection of lines and arcs into a polyline with the PEDIT command, a CAD designer notices that its dashed linetype creates some undesired gaps at a number of the vertices. What can the designer do to remedy this?

Explode the polyline and rejoin the objects using the Linetype Gaps option set to No.
Use the LINETYPE command to reload the Dashed linetype and reapply it to the new polyline.
Change objects to Continuous linetype before using PEDIT, then change polyline to Dashed.
Use the Properties palette to disable the polyline’s linetype generation.

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30. What should be done to prevent a viewport’s scale from being changed accidentally?

Lock the viewport’s layer.
Lock the viewport.
Freeze the viewport.
Freeze the viewport’s layer.

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31. A drawing contains a number of blocks that are no longer used. A CAD designer would like to ensure that these blocks are removed. After purging, more blocks appear in the list of Named Items Not Used. What option should the designer have used in the PURGE dialog to purge these additional blocks at the same time?

Purge Unnamed Objects
Perform Multiple Purges
Repeat Purge for all Unused Blocks
Purge Nested Items

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32. Refer to exhibit.

A CAD designer has selected the desk block in cubicle 6063 and notices that the grip representing the block’s insertion point is oddly located. They would prefer the base point to be in the corner. What does this tell the designer about the block?

The block's base point is incorrect in the block definition.
The block is corrupt and needs audited.
The block was created from the clipboard using Paste as Block.
The block was inserted incorrectly.

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33. To eliminate the need to add annotation scales to annotative objects when a viewport’s scale changes, what setting should a CAD designer enable before changing the viewport scale?

Select all annotative objects and choose Add Current Scale.
Set the viewports Display Locked setting to No.
Turn on the Show Annotative Scale: Always option.
Turn on the Add Scales to Annotative Objects When the Annotation Scale Changes option.

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34. Refer to exhibit.

[Note: AutoCAD for Mac uses the Project Manager for sheet lists and sheet sets. The Mac terminology is included in parenthesis below. See the AutoCAD for Mac Help documentation for further details.]

A CAD designer wants to publish a sheet set (project), but Publish is disabled. What step is missing in the workflow?

No page setups were assigned to the sheets.
A drawing must be open to publish sheets.
The sheet Set (project) is locked.
The sheet set (project) is read only.

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35. A CAD designer has attached a PDF as an underlay and wants the PDF to plot without the frame around it. What workflow should be used?

Deselect the Plot underlay frames option in the PLOT dialog.
Put the PDF's frame on a non-plotting layer.
Adjust the PDFFRAMES variable to Display but not plot frames.
Re-attach the PDF and select the Plot Borders option.

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36. To ensure that a referenced drawing is always visible when its host drawing is referenced into another drawing, what external reference setting should a CAD designer use?

Path: Absolute
Path: Relative
Reference type: Attach
Reference type: Overlay

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37. A CAD designer is required by the client to use an SHX font for text, but needs to add italic text to a drawing. The SHX font does not have an italic option. What are the designer’s options?

Use a TrueType font instead of the SHX font.
Change the oblique angle property of the text.
Edit the SHX file to enable text to be italicized.
Change the Direction property of the text.

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38. A CAD designer realizes that every time annotation scales are changed, that scale is applied to all the annotative objects in the drawing. What setting should be changed to prevent this?

Use ISOLATE command to temporarily hide annotative objects to prevent scale being assigned.
Lock the layer that the annotative objects are on.
Deselect the Add Scales to Annotative Objects When the Annotation Scale Changes setting.
Lock the viewport that the annotative objects appear in.

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39. Refer to exhibit.

A CAD drawing of a new office shows has a wing that is angled at 18 degrees off of horizontal. To simplify laying out walls orthogonally in the wing and to be able to easily switch between the two areas, what workflow should the CAD designer use?

Turn on Polar tracking and set the angle to 18 degrees.
Rotate the plan temporarily as needed while working on each area.
Rotate the world coordinate system to 18 degrees.
Create and save a custom UCS for the angled wing.

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40. What two MVIEW options will create a non-rectangular viewport? (Select two.)

Select 2 answers below.

Polygonal
Fit
New
Object
Polyline

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41. A CAD designer left a drawing open overnight and the IT department performed a patch, causing the system to reboot. What occurs when AutoCAD restarts?

AutoCAD requires all drawings that had been opened to be recovered.
All the drawings that had been open at the time of the reboot are reopened automatically.
The Drawing Recover Manager opens to aid in recovering files impacted by the reboot.
AutoCAD offers to compare versions of the drawings that had been open with their autosave files.

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42. A company has a particular block that designers are encouraged to use frequently to bring in standard settings. What workflow should a CAD designer use to make this block easier to insert in the future?

After inserting the block initially, right-click on its thumbnail and select Copy to Favorites.
Select the thumbnail and choose Allow Docking from the right-click menu of the BLOCKS palette.
Insert the block the first time from the Favorites tab so that it will be added to that tab.
After inserting the block initially, drag and drop the thumbnail onto the Favorites tab.

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43. Refer to exhibit.

In the Page Setup Manager, a CAD designer notices that the Set Current option is disabled. What could be the issue?

The highlighted entry can’t be set current because it is the current layout.
The page setup named *Enlarged Plans* has errors that need resolved first.
No page setups are defined in the current drawing.
The Enlarged Plans layout already has a page setup assigned.

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44. After creating a transmittal using eTransmit and sending it to a client, the client reports that they are unable to open any of the drawings. What step did the CAD designer miss while creating the transmittal?

Did not discover what drawing file format the client needed.
Did not bind all the external references.
Did not choose the Place All Files in One Folder option.
Did not check the Include Fonts option.

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45. After importing a PDF, a CAD designer notices that the dashed lines in the PDF were converted into many individual line segments. What setting should the designer select when importing PDFs to avoid this issue in the future?

Infer linetypes from collinear dashes.
Convert solid fills to hatches.
Import linetypes automatically.
Join lines and arc segments.

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46. Refer to exhibit.

A CAD designer needs to add more spaces to a parking lot and starts the OFFSET command but doesn’t know the spacing that was used for the adjacent spaces. At this point, what workflow should the designer use?

Use the Measure option at the Specify offset distance prompt to establish the distance.
Use MEASUREGEOM to measure the distance of one of the spaces, then repeat OFFSET using this distance.
Pick two points of an existing space at the Specify offset distance prompt to establish the distance.
Use the Through option at the Specify offset distance prompt to establish the distance.

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47. A CAD designer opens a drawing. In a previous session, a field was created that reflected the length of a polyline. Now the field appears as a row of hash marks, instead of a length. What can the designer deduce from this scenario?

The line has been modified and the field needs updating.
The line that the field was linked to has been erased.
The field’s format is incorrect.
The field’s layer is locked and must be unlocked in order to be updated.

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48. Refer to exhibit.

A CAD designer needs to add a table to a drawing and would like to set all the column and row settings before inserting the table. The Insert Table dialog, however, is only letting the designer specify the number of columns or column width, not both. Similarly with rows. What table insertion option should be changed to permit presetting all the desired column and row settings in the Insert Table dialog?

Select a different table style.
Insert the table and make the adjustments after the table is placed.
Use the Specify insertion point option.
Edit the selected table style to allow this flexibility.

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49. An annotative multileader is visible in two viewports, each with a different annotation scale. The multileader’s text is being cut off by the viewport and needs to be repositioned. How should a CAD designer fix the multileader in one viewport without affecting it in the other viewport?

Use the Properties palette to move the multileader text.
Use Synchronize Multi-scale Positions to fix the issue.
Modify the location of the multileader using the MOVE command in that viewport.
Use grip-stretch to move the multileader text.

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50. Refer to exhibit.

While grip editing a line with Dynamic Input enabled, three boxes are displayed as shown in the exhibit. What workflow should be used to enter a new value for box #1?

Press Control+Tab repeatedly until the focus is on box #1.
Press the Space bar repeatedly until the focus is on box #1.
Press the Tab key repeatedly until the focus is on box #1.
Press and hold the Shift key to suspend the grip edit and click in box #1.

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51. Refer to exhibit.

A CAD designer needs to transfer project files and folders from the company network (left path in exhibit) to a laptop (right path in exhibit). One of the xrefs is missing from the main drawing but all the files transferred successfully. How should the references' paths have been set up to accommodate this scenario?

The references should have been bound to the main drawing before transferring the files to the laptop.
Relative paths should have been used to accommodate the different drive letter and parent folders.
Their reference types should have been set to attach instead of overlay.
The references need to be reloaded in the main drawing,

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52. Refer to exhibit.

When using the COUNT command, a CAD designer notices the count of (4) Chair blocks appears to match what is shown on the plan. However, one of the chairs is shown in red which indicates there is an issue. What could the count issue be?

The red chair indicates that there are overlapping blocks.
The red chair is on a different layer than the adjacent blocks.
The red geometry is the result of an exploded chair block.
The red chair is a different scale than the adjacent blocks.

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53. Refer to exhibit.

A CAD designer notices that the upper drawing title is in two lines, even though the grips indicate that the text width is the same as the lower title. What should the designer do to return the upper title to a single line?

Edit the text and remove the carriage return or extra spaces causing the line break after SECTION.
Use Properties to set its Line Spacing Factor to 0.
Use Match Properties to inherit the Column property of the lower text.
In the MText editor, right-click and choose Remove All Formatting.

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54. While working in a paper space viewport, a CAD designer wants to create a new layer that should not appear in any other viewport. What method should be used?

In the Layer Properties Manager palette, right-click and choose New Layer VP Frozen in All Viewports.
In the viewport, use the Layer Properties Manager palette to create the new layer. Create the layer in the viewport; by default, it will be frozen in all other viewports.
In the viewport, use the Layer Properties Manager palette to create the new layer. Right-click on the layer created and choose VP Freeze Layer > In All Viewport Except Current.
Switch to model space, and use the Layer Properties Manager palette to create the new layer. Freeze it in model space, then switch back to the paper space layout and thaw it in the viewport it should appear in.

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55. Refer to exhibit.

A CAD designer needs to make updates to an existing data-linked table, however, the Contents field in the Properties palette is disabled. How can the cell contents be changed in the table?

Remove the read-only attribute of the Excel file that the data link references.
Unlock the layer that the table is inserted on.
Change the Cell locking property to Unlocked.
Double-click on the cell in the table instead; cell contents can’t be edited in the Properties palette.

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56. Refer to exhibit.

While using the MEASUREGEOM command, a CAD designer notices that the orange horizontal dimension does not show a distance. What does this indicate about the geometry?

The horizontal lines of the gasket opening are not parallel.
The two angles on the left side of the gasket opening are not truly 90 degrees.
The vertical lines of the gasket opening are not parallel.
The linework of the opening contains gaps.

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57. Refer to exhibit.

When hovering the cursor over annotative text, what does the badge beside the cursor indicate about the object?

It is annotative but currently has no annotation scales assigned.
Its annotation scales don’t match the current annotation scale.
It has more than one annotation scale assigned.
It has one or more unused annotation scales assigned.

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