Mechanical Design (CSWA–Mechanical Design)
Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate in Mechanical Design
The CSWA certification is proof of your SOLIDWORKS expertise with cutting-edge skills that businesses seek out and reward.
Recommended Training Courses
- SOLIDWORKS Tutorials
- SOLIDWORKS Essentials
Exam Length
3 hours
Minimum Passing grade
70%
About the Exam
All candidates receive electronic certificates and personal listing on the CSWA directory* when they pass.
Exam may feature hands-on challenges in some of these areas:
Exam may feature hands-on challenges in some of these areas:
- Sketch entities – lines, rectangles, circles, arcs, ellipses, centerlines.
- Sketch relations.
- Fillets and chamfers.
- Dimensions.
- Mass properties.
- Inserting components.
- Reference geometry – planes, axis, mate references.
- Drawing views
- Sketch tools – offset, convert, trim.
- Boss and cut features – extrudes, revolves, sweeps, lofts.
- Linear, circular, and fill patterns.
- Feature conditions – start and end.
- Materials.
- Standard mates – coincident, parallel, perpendicular, tangent, concentric, distance, angle.
- Annotations
Re-test Policy
There is a minimum 14 day waiting period between every attempt of the CSWA exam. Also, a CSWA exam credit must be purchased for each exam attempt.
