SolidWorks certifications can be used as a benchmark to measure your knowledge and competency with SolidWorks software.

CSWA

As a Certified SolidWorks Associate (CSWA), you will stand out from the crowd in today’s competitive job market.

CSWP

A Certified SolidWorks Professional is an individual who has successfully passed our advanced skills examination.

CSWE

A Certified SolidWorks Expert is someone who easily demonstrates the ability to utilize advanced functions and features to solve complex modeling challenges.

CSDA

As a Certified Sustainable Design Associate (CSDA), you will stand out from the crowd in today’s competitive job market by demonstrating an understanding of the principles of environmental assessment and sustainable design.

CSWP-Sheet Metal

The completion of the Certified SolidWorks Professional Sheet Metal exam shows that you have successfully demonstrated your ability to use SolidWorks Sheet Metal tools.

CSWP-Weldments

The completion of the Certified SolidWorks Professional Weldments exam proves that you have successfully demonstrated your ability to use the SolidWorks tools for Weldments.

CSWP-Surfacing

SolidWorks software includes many advanced surfacing tools. The Certified SolidWorks Professional Surfacing Specialist exam gauges your ability to use these tools in the creation of complex surfaces.

CSWP-Mold Tools

The Advanced Mold Tools exam will test your ability to use SolidWorks Mold Tools. Understanding SolidWorks Mold Tools will help you create a robust mold design in an efficient manner.

CSWSP-FEA

The Certified SolidWorks Simulation Professional exam tests your understanding of SolidWorks Simulation tools and simulation in general.

All certification testing is done online. The process for taking a test is as follows:

Step 1: Visit our online store to purchase your exam.

Step 2: When you're ready, take the exam on your computer.

Step 3: When you're done, access your account via the SolidWorks Certification Center and print your certificates.

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 with cutting-edge skills that businesses seek out and reward.

Recommended Self-paced training:
SolidWorks Tutorials

Exam Length: 3 hours

Minimum Passing grade: 70%

All candidates receive electronic certificates 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

• Annotations

A Certified SolidWorks Professional is an individual who has successfully passed our advanced skills examination.  Each CSWP has proven their ability to design and analyze parametric parts and moveable assemblies using a variety of complex features in SolidWorks software.

Recommended Training Courses:
SolidWorks Essentials, SolidWorks Drawings, Advanced Part Modeling and Advanced Assembly Modeling.

The current release of the CSWP Exam has been broken down into three seperate 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 Length: 3 hours 30 minutes (All segments total)

Minimum Passing grade: 75% in each segment
All candidates receive electronic certificates, business card logos and personal listing on CSWP directory* when they pass.

Exam features hands-on challenges in these areas:

Segment 1: (90 Minutes)

• 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

Segment 2: (40 Minutes)

• Creating configurations from other configurations
• Changing configurations
• Mass properties
• Changing features of an existing SolidWorks part
• Creation and modification of a Design Table in an existing part

Segment 3: (80 Minutes)

• Creating an assembly
• Adding parts to an assembly
• Doing collision detection when moving a part in an assembly
• Mates 
• Replacing a part with another part in an assembly
• Creating a coordinate system
• Using a coordinate system to perform mass properties analysis

Standard SolidWorks tools that may be covered in the exam include:

• 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
• Draft
• Shell
• Hole Wizard
• Linear, circular, and fill patterns
• Linked dimensions
• Equations
• Mirror
• Dimensions
• Feature conditions – start and end 
• Multi-body parts
• Rib
• Feature scope
• Mass properties
• Move/Delete face
• Materials
• Restraints
• Inserting components - new and existing
• Standard mates and advanced mates
• Reference geometry – planes, axis, mate references
• In-context features
• Interference detection
• Suppression states
• Move/Rotate component
• Assembly features
• Collision detection in an assembly
• External references
• Design tables
• Dimensions and model items

A Certified SolidWorks Expert is someone who easily demonstrates the ability to utilize advanced functions and features to solve complex modeling challenges.  A CSWE will be well rounded in their knowledge of all areas of the SolidWorks software. A CSWE is able to solve practically any modeling problem given to them, and is traditionally the go-to SolidWorks user among their colleagues.

Exam Prerequisites:

To qualify to take the CSWE exam, a candidate must have:

• Successfully passed the CSWP exam
• Successfully passed at least three advanced topic exams

 
The CSWE exam is meant to be the most challenging exam we offer, so therefore no sample exam is provided.  If the exam is not successfully passed, you will have to wait 180 days to retake the exam.

Exam Length: 3 hours 

SolidWorks 2009 or later is required to take the exam

Minimum Passing grade: 85%
All candidates receive electronic certificates, business card logos and personal listing on CSWP directory* when they pass.

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

As a Certified Sustainable Design Associate (CSDA), you will stand out from the crowd in today’s competitive job market by demonstrating an understanding of the principles of environmental assessment and sustainable design.  Employers can be confident that an individual with this certification understands the principles of environmental assessment and sustainable design.  

Recommended Self-paced Training:
Thoroughly review the Sustainable Design Guide at www.solidworks.com/sustainable-design.

Exam Length: 60 minutes 

Minimum Passing Grade: 80%

All candidates receive electronic certificates and personal listing on the CSDA directory* when they pass.

The CSDA Exam features theory-based questions in many of these areas:

• Introductory concepts of sustainability and sustainable business

• Broad sustainable design concepts, such as Design for Disassembly (DfD), Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), and Biomimicry

• The stages of a product life cycle

• Considerations for properly setting up an Environmental Assessment study, such as environmental indicators, scope of the assessment, and metrics to use

• Goal and Scope variables for an Environmental Assessment study, such as system boundary and functional unit

• Common tools for performing Environmental Assessments, such as Product Scorecards and Life Cycle Assessment

• Basic steps for performing a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) study

• Interpreting the results of a product Environmental Assessment 

• Universal strategies for sustainable design

• Proper communication of environmental assessment results and use of environmental marketing claims (green marketing)