A Certified SolidWorks Associate (CSWA) is an individual that has successfully passed SolidWorks fundamental skills examination. Each CSWA has proven their ability to design parts and assemblies using a variety of core features in SolidWorks.

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

Exam Length: 3 hours
Minimum Passing grade: 70%