# SOLIDWORKS Design Associate (CSWA)

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### SOLIDWORKS Design Associate (CSWA)

The CSWA certification is proof of your SOLIDWORKS® expertise with cutting-edge skills that businesses seek out and reward.

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#### Recommended Training Courses

- [SOLIDWORKS Academic Curriculum](/curriculum) (self-pace courses, practice problems, and more...)
- [SOLIDWORKS Design Essentials](https://www.solidworks.com/support/training/solidworks-essentials) (classroom)
- [CSWA Exam Prep Course](https://my.solidworks.com/training/path/14) (self-pace course)

Note: You must use at least SOLIDWORKS 2011 for this exam. Any use of a previous version will result in the inability to open some of the testing files.

#### Exam Length

3 hours

#### Minimum Passing grade

70%

#### Language Availability

English, Japanese, French, Spanish, German, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Portuguese, Italian, Korean, Russian, Czech, Polish, Thai, Turkish

#### About the Exam

All candidates who pass the CSWA exam will receive an electronic certificate, a digital badge, and a personal listing in the CSWA Online Directory. To appear in the directory, this option must be enabled in your online certification account after passing.

Exam may feature hands-on challenges in some 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 views
- Annotations

#### Re-test Policy

There is a minimum 14 day waiting period between every attempt of the CSWA exam. Also, a CSWA exam credit must be purchased for each exam attempt.

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