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CSWA

As a Certified SolidWorks Associate (CSWA), you will stand out from the crowd in today’s competitive job market. CSWA certification is proof of your SolidWorks® expertise – cutting-edge skills that businesses seek out and reward.

Recommended Self-paced training:
SolidWorks Tutorials

Exam Length: 3 hours

Minimum Passing grade: 70%

All candidates receive electronic certifcates and personal listing on the CSWA 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

  • Boss and cut features - extrudes, revolves, sweeps, lofts

  • Fillets and chamfers

  • Linear, circular and fill patterns

  • Dimensions

  • Feature conditions – start and end

  • Mass properties

  • Materials

  • Inserting components

  • Standard mates - coincident, parallel, perpendicular, tangent, concentric, distance, angle

  • Reference geometry – planes, axis, mate references

  • Drawing sheets and views

  • Dimensions and model items

  • Annotations

  • SimulationXpress

 

*This option must be set in your online certification account to show up in the directory

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