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.

Download a Sample CSWA Exam (PDF)

Recommended Self-paced training:
SolidWorks Tutorials

Exam Length: 3 hours

Minimum Passing grade: 70%
All candidates receive electronic certifcates and personal listing on the CSWA directory* when they pass.

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

*This option must be set in your online certification account to show up in the directory

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