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SOLIDWORKS Design Professional (CSWP)

The Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional (CSWP) is one of the most recognized and sought-after credentials in the engineering and manufacturing industries. Earning your CSWP demonstrates to employers that you have mastered the core competencies of parametric part design, configurations, and assembly modeling in SOLIDWORKS at a professional level.

The CSWP exam is made up of three segments that can be purchased and taken together or individually, giving you the flexibility to work through the certification at your own pace.

How it works:

  • Segments can be taken in any order and at any time.
  • Once a segment is passed, it does not need to be retaken.
  • If a segment is failed, only that segment needs to be repurchased and retaken.
  • Once all three segments are successfully completed, your CSWP certification is awarded automatically.

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All three segments are added to your cart by default. If you only want to purchase one or two segments, you can remove the others from your cart before checkout.

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Requirements

SOLIDWORKS 2015 or later is required to take the exam. Any use of a previous version will result in the inability to open some of the testing files.

Exam Length

3 hours 20 minutes (All segments total)

Prerequisite

None.

Note: K–12 students taking this exam through a SOLIDWORKS Academic Certification Provider are required to pass the SOLIDWORKS Design Associate (CSWA) certification prior to attempting the CSWP.

Minimum Passing grade

See details below

Language Availability

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

About the Exam

Certification Benefits

All candidates who pass the CSWP exam receive an electronic certificate, business card logos, and a personal listing in the CSWP online directory. To appear in the directory, this option must be enabled in your online certification account.

Exam Structure

The CSWP exam is divided into three separate segments, so you no longer need to set aside a single block of time to complete the entire exam. You may take the segments in any order, at any time, or all three in a row if you prefer. Once all three segments are successfully completed, your CSWP certification is awarded automatically.

Exam Content by Segment

Each segment focuses on a different area of SOLIDWORKS expertise. The topics within each segment are grouped below by skill area.

Standard SOLIDWORKS Tools Covered in the Exam

The CSWP exam draws on a broad set of standard SOLIDWORKS tools across the segments. These are organized below by function.

Sketching

  • Sketch entities — lines, rectangles, circles, arcs, ellipses, and centerlines
  • Sketch tools — offset, convert, and trim
  • Sketch relations
  • Dimensions and linked dimensions
  • Equations

Part Features

  • Boss and cut features — extrudes, revolves, sweeps, and lofts
  • Fillets and chamfers
  • Draft and shell
  • Hole Wizard
  • Rib and mirror
  • Linear, circular, and fill patterns
  • Feature conditions — start and end
  • Feature scope
  • Move/Delete face

Multi-Body and Reference Geometry

  • Multi-body parts
  • Reference geometry — planes, axis, and mate references
  • Design tables

Assemblies

  • Inserting components — new and existing
  • Standard mates and advanced mates
  • In-context features
  • Interference detection
  • Collision detection in an assembly
  • Suppression states
  • Move/Rotate component
  • Assembly features
  • External references

Materials and Analysis

  • Materials
  • Mass properties
  • Restraints
  • Dimensions and model items

Re-test Policy

There is a minimum 14 day waiting period between every attempt of the same CSWP Segment exam. Also, an exam credit for that CSWP Segment must be purchased for each exam attempt.

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