Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional (CSWP)
Solid Modeling Specialist
A Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional is an individual that has successfully passed our advanced skills examination. Each CSWP has proven their ability to design and analyze parametric parts and moveable assemblies using a variety of complex features in SOLIDWORKS.
All candidates receive electronic certifcates, business card logos and personal listing on CSWP directory when they pass.
Exam details:
Exam Length: 3 Hours and 30 minutes
Min Passing grade: 75%
Type: Hands-on exam
Recommended Training:
Exam Topics
Exam features hands-on challenges in these areas:
Segment 1: (90 Minutes)
- Create a part from a drawing
- Use linked dimensions and equations to aid in modeling
- Use of equations to relate dimensions
- Update of parameters and dimension sizes
- Mass property analysis
- Modification of geometry on initial part to create a more complex part
Segment 2: (40 Minutes)
- Creating configurations from other configurations
- Changing configurations
- Mass properties
- Changing features of an existing SOLIDWORKS part
Segment 3: (80 Minutes)
- Creating an assembly
- Adding parts to an assembly
- Doing collision detection when moving a part in an assembly
- Mates
- Replacing a part with another part in an assembly
- Creating a coordinate system
- Using a coordinate system to perform mass properties analysis
Standard SOLIDWORKS tools that may be covered in the exam include:
- 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
- Draft
- Shell
- Hole Wizard
- Linear, circular and fill patterns
- Linked dimensions
- Equations
- Mirror
- Dimensions
- Feature conditions – start and end
- Multi-body parts
- Rib
- Feature scope
- Mass properties
- Move/Delete face
- Materials
- Restraints
- Inserting components - new and existing
- Standard mates and advanced mates
- Reference geometry – planes, axis, mate references
- In-context features
- Interference detection
- Suppression states
- Move/Rotate component
- Assembly features
- Collision detection in an assembly
- External references
- Design tables
- Dimensions and model items
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