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How can I help my students become SOLIDWORKS Certified?

  • In today’s competitive job market, CAD professionals need every advantage they can get, and the SOLIDWORKS® Certification Program gives your students a proven edge. With SOLIDWORKS Certification, students will demonstrate their expertise with SOLIDWORKS 3D solid modeling, design concepts, and sustainable design and their commitment to professional development.

    Any educator with a SolidWorks Education Edition license of 45 seats or greater with a current subscription can administer the exam for free to every student in the class.

  • SOLIDWORKS Exam Lengths

    CSWA – 3 hours

    CSWP – 3 hours 20 minutes (All segments total)

    CSME – 4 hours

Certified SolidWorks Associate – CSWA

Educators play a vital role in developing the next generation of engineering and design innovators. Offering SolidWorks CSWA Academic certification helps students become well-versed in both basic knowledge of engineering fundamentals and industry practices, along with SOLIDWORKS CAD software and its methodologies and simulation principles.

The CSWA – Academic Exam is divided into five major sections which are described below. Questions in the exam are provided randomly from a pool of available questions. The questions refer to an in-depth, illustrated, dimensioned model. The minimum passing grade is 165 out of 240 points.

  • Drafting Competencies

    • Miscellaneous questions on drafting functionality

    Basic Part Creation and Modification

    • Sketching
    • Extrude Boss
    • Extrude Cut
    • Modification of Key Dimensions

  • Intermediate Part Creation and Modification

    • Sketching
    • Revolve Boss
    • Extrude Cut
    • Circular Pattern

  • Advanced Part Creation and Modification

    • Sketching
    • Sketch Offset
    • Extrude Boss
    • Extrude Cut
    • Modification of Key Dimensions
    • More Difficult Geometry Modifications

  • Assembly Creation

    • Placing of Base Part
    • Mates
    • Modification of Key Parameters in Assembly

Certified SolidWorks Professional – CSWP

The current release of the CSWP Exam has been broken down into three separate segments. This new system means you no longer have to set aside a block of time to take the entire exam in one sitting. The segmented exam allows you to take each segment at any time, and in any order, and if you choose you can take all three in a row. Once you pass a segment, you will not have to take it again. If you fail a segment, you will be able to purchase just that segment and take it again. Once all three segments have been successfully completed, you will automatically receive your CSWP Certification.

Exam may feature hands-on challenges in some of these areas:

  • Segment 1: (70 Minutes – 75 points to pass/105 points maximum)

    • Creating a part from a drawing
    • Using linked dimensions and equations to aid in modeling
    • Using equations to relate dimensions
    • Updating parameters and dimension sizes
    • Mass property analysis
    • Modifying geometry on initial part to create a more complex part
    • Modifying parameters on the part at different stages while maintaining all other dimensions and design intent

  • Segment 2: (50 Minutes – 77 points to pass/104 points maximum)

    • Creating configurations from other configurations
    • Changing configurations
    • Creation of configurations using a Design Table
    • Mass properties
    • Changing and/or rearranging features of an existing SOLIDWORKS part

  • Segment 3: (80 Minutes – 77 points to pass/109 points maximum)

    • Creating an assembly
    • Adding parts to an assembly
    • Doing collision detection when moving a part in an assembly
    • Interference detection
    • Basic and advanced mates
    • Inserting subassemblies
    • Replacing a part with another part in an assembly
    • Creating a coordinate system
    • Using a coordinate system to perform mass properties analysis

Certified SolidWorks Expert – CSWE

All candidates receive electronic certificates, business card logos and personal listing on CSWE directory* when they pass. To show up in the directory, this option must be set in your online certification account.

Exam may feature hands-on challenges in some of these areas:

    • Lofts
    • Sweeps
    • In-context assembly changes
    • Imported part modification
    • Belts and chains
    • Sketch blocks
    • Multi-bodies
    • In-context assembly design
    • Sketch pictures
    • Spring modeling
    • Move/Copy bodies
    • Split tool
    • Assembly Mates
    • 3D Sketch
    • Advanced Weldments
    • Sheet Metal Import and Modification
    • Assembly Configurations
    • Advanced Bill of Materials Functionality