Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate (CSWA)

Proficient in Engineering Principles & 3D visualization

As a Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate (CSWA), you will stand out from the crowd in today’s competitive job market. CSWA certification is proof of your SOLIDWORKS® expertise – cutting-edge skills that businesses seek out and reward. A Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate is an individual that has successfully passed the SOLIDWORKS fundamental skills examination.  Each CSWA has proven their ability to design parts and assemblies using a variety of core features in SOLIDWORKS.

 

 

Exam Topics

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

• 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 sheets and views

• Dimensions and model items

• Annotations

• SimulationXpress