CSWA

As a Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate – Academic (CSWA – Academic), students will demonstrate their expertise with SOLIDWORKS 3D solid modeling software, design concepts, and sustainable design, giving them a competitive edge in today’s job market.

The CSWA – Academic certification is proof of your SOLIDWORKS® expertise with cutting-edge skills that businesses seek out and reward.

As a SOLIDWORKS Academic Certification Provider, you agree to offer the CSWA-Academic Exam in a proctored environment. Students that pass the CSWA-Academic Exam receive an electronic certificate listing their certification ID and educational institution name. The certification ID can be verified by schools and employers.

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CERTIFICATION

Once the exam succeeded, students can prove to employer their Solidworks competency thanks to:

  • – The online database of certified Solidworks users freely accessible to companies and recruiters to check candidate ID.
  • – A digital certificate with the name of the academic institution can be sent by e-mail to employers.
  • – A logo that can be inserted in e-mail, visit cards and resumes.

 

EXAM CONTENTS

Exam Length: 3 hours

Minimum Passing grade: 70%

Re-test Policy: There is a minimum 30 day waiting period between every attempt of the CSWA – Academic exam. Also, a CSWA exam credit must be purchased for each exam attempt.

Exam features hands-on challenges in many of these areas:

  • – Sketch entities – lines, rectangles, circles, arcs, lace bridal gowns 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 views
  • – Annotations

For further information or get yourself prepared for the exam, please, contact us here!

Once your certification CSWA obtained, you may consider to get to the next certification level: Certification of SolidWorks Professional (CSWP)