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Examination time
3 hours
Minimum score
70 %
About the exam
All participants receive electronic certificates and individual listing in the CSWA* directory on successful completion.
The exam may include practical exercises in some of the following areas:
- Sketch entities (lines, rectangles, circles, arcs, ellipses, construction lines)
- Sketching tools (offset, conversion, adjustment)
- Sketch relationships
- Embossing and material removal functions (extrusions, revolutions, sweeps, smoothing)
- Fillets and chamfers
- Linear, circular and zone repetitions
- Dimensions
- Function conditions (start and end)
- Mass properties
- Materials
- Inserting components
- Standard constraints (coincident, parallel, perpendicular, tangent, concentric, distance, angle)
- Reference geometry (planes, axes, stress references)
- Plan views
- Annotations
In case of failure
Don’t panic, it happens. What’s more, it’s not your fault – we know SOLIDWORKS crashed.
You’ll be able to retake it in 14 days, so get back to practicing in the meantime. You’ll need a new code for the exam.



