CSWP
A Certified SolidWorks Professional is an individual that has successfully passed our advanced skills examination. Each CSWP has proven their ability to design and analyze parametric parts and moveable assemblies using a variety of complex features in SolidWorks.
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
