COSMOSWorks Designer Specialist
Certified SolidWorks Professional
A Certified SolidWorks Professional is an individual that has successfully passed our advanced skills examination. Each Certified SolidWorks Professional COSMOSWorks Designer Specialist (CSWP-CDES) has proven their ability to analyze parametric parts and moveable assemblies with SolidWorks Simulation.
All candidates receive electronic certifcates, business card logos and personal listing on CSWP directory when they pass.
Exam details:
Exam Length: 2 Hours
Min Passing grade: 70%
Type: Hands-on exam
Recommended Training:
Exam Topics
Exam features hand calculations in the following areas:
- Free body diagrams - Resolving Reaction force and moments
- Basic stress and strain calculations
- Shear stress, Axial stress
- Lateral strain, Axial strain
- Calculating material properties
- Elastic modulus
- Poisson's ratio
Exam features hands-on challenges in many of these areas:
- Geometry
- Defeaturing
- Idealization
- Clean up (Ex: suppressing cosmetic features)
- Material
- Understanding ductile and brittle materials
- Understanding material failure theories
- Creating and modifying material properties
- Meshing
- Draft/High quality solid mesh
- Application of mesh controls on areas of interest
- Contacts
- Simulating interactions between parts of an assembly
- Modeling contacts based on loading type (Bending, Axial, shear)
- Restraints
- Fixed - Easy to use. Ramifications if any?
- Using Symmetry to reduce model size
- Using Symmetry to constrain rigid body motions
- Bolt connectors - simplify assembly analysis
- Loads
- Force loading with respect to reference plane
- Load distribution based on selecting one or more geometry in same selection set
- Load manipulation while using symmetry
- Results
- Significance of vonMises stress
- Significance of Principal stresses
- Significance of stress intensity
- Factor of safety calculations
- Getting reaction forces
- Getting results on components of interest
Online Testing Procedure
You can obtain certification online by visiting the SolidWorks Website. The process is to first purchase the exam, take the exam, and then print the certificate.
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| Purchase the Exam | Take the Exam | Print the Certificate |
| You must first visit the SolidWorks web store, choose the exam to take then make a purchase. | To take the certification exam you download a 'Virtualtester Client' from the SolidWorks web site. | When you achieve a certification, SolidWorks provides 24-hour access to your electronic certificates. |
Go to the SolidWorks Website and purchase/take a SolidWorks Certification Exam
