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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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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