3. CSWP – Professional level certification

Recommended courses

• CSWA certification
• CSWP exam preparation course
• Mock exam

About the exam

The exam may include practical exercises in some of the following areas:

Part 1: (70 minutes – 75 points to pass/105 points maximum)

• Creating a part from a drawing
• Use linked dimensions and equations to facilitate modeling
• Using equations to establish relationships between dimensions
• Update parameters and dimensions
• Mass property analysis
• Modify the geometry of an initial part to create a more complex part
• Modify part parameters at different stages while maintaining all dimensions and design intent

Part 2: (50 minutes – 77 points to pass/104 points maximum)

• Creating configurations from other configurations
• Modifying configurations
• Creating configurations using a part family
• Mass properties
• Modify and/or rearrange the features of an existing SOLIDWORKS part

Part 3: (80 minutes – 77 points to pass/109 points maximum)

• Creating an assembly
• Adding parts to an assembly
• Collision detection when moving a part in an assembly
• Interference detection
• Basic and advanced constraints
• Subassembly insertion
• Replacing one part with another in an assembly
• Creating a coordinate system
• Using a coordinate system to analyze mass properties

The standard SOLIDWORKS tools that can be used during the exam are… In fact, just about everything!

• 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
• Remains
• Hull
• Drilling assistance
• Linear, circular and zone repetitions
• Linked odds
• Equations
• Symmetry
• Dimensions
• Function conditions (start and end)
• Multi-body parts
• Nervure
• Function area
• Mass properties
• Moving/deleting a face
• Materials
• Forced travel
• Inserting components (new and existing)
• Standard and advanced constraints
• Reference geometry (planes, axes, stress references)
• Functions in context
• Interference detection
• Deletion states
• Moving/rotating a component
• Assembly functions
• Collision detection in an assembly
• External references
• Part families
• Dimensions and model objects

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.