Recommended Training Courses:
SolidWorks Essentials, SolidWorks Drawings,
Advanced Part Modeling and Advanced Assembly Modeling

Exam Length: 3 hours

Minimum Passing grade: 75%

All candidates receive electronic certifcates, business card logos and personal listing on CSWP directory when they pass.

Exam features hands-on challenges in many of these areas:

• Sketch entities - lines, rectangles, circles, arcs, ellipses, centerlines
• Sketch tools - offset, convert, trim
• Sketch relations
• 3D sketching
• Boss and cut features - extrudes, revolves, sweeps, lofts
• Fillets and chamfers
• Draft
• Shell
• Hole Wizard
• Linear, circular and fill patterns
• Mirror
• Dimensions
• Feature conditions – start and end
• Multi-body parts
• Combine – add, subtract, common
• Move/Copy body
• Split
• Join
• Rib
• Scale
• Indent
• Helix/Spiral
• Curves – projected, composite
• Splines
• Intersection curve
• Guide curves, hold lines
• Library features
• Feature scope
• Mass properties
• Move/Delete face
• Materials
• Linear static analysis
• Loads – force, pressure
• Restraints
• Optimizing - Factor of safety
• Max von Mises stress location
• Max displacement location
• Inserting components - new and existing
• Standard mates - coincident, parallel, perpendicular, tangent, concentric, distance, angle
• Advanced mates - symmetric, cam, width, gear, rack and pinion, limit
• Reference geometry – planes, axis, mate references
• In-context features
• Smart Components
• Smart Fasteners
• Smart Mates
• Interference detection
• Suppression states
• Move/Rotate component
• Exploded view
• Simulation
• Assembly features
• External references
• Design tables
• Drawing sheets and views
• Dimensions and model items
• Annotations
• Formats and templates
• Assembly views – configurations, broken out section view, alternate position view, exploded view
• Bill of Materials
• Custom properties