Cert Prep: Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional

Course details

Become a Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional (CSWP). This course prepares you to take the latest version of the CSWP exam (introduced at SOLIDWORKS World 2018), and master the techniques necessary to design and analyze parametric parts and moveable assemblies using a variety of complex features in SOLIDWORKS. Instructor Gabriel Corbett provides an overview of the CSWP requirements, and reviews the 30+ skills you will be tested on during the exam. These include equations and linked variables, convert and offset entities, the Shell tool, the Hole Wizard, materials, configurations, design tables, and assembly techniques. He also breaks down the three segments of the exam (part modeling, configurations, and assemblies), providing strategies that will help you pass each section within the required time limit.

Learning objectives
CSWP exam overview
Working with the sketch tools
Performing sweeps and lofts
Smoothing corners with Fillet and Chamfer
Creating linear and circular patterns
Designing multibody parts
Setting mass properties
Working with materials
Inserting components
Setting up reference geometry
Moving and rotating components
Working with suppression states
Using a design table to build configurations
Establishing standard drawing views
Segment 1: Modeling parts
Segment 2: Modifying and configuring parts
Segment 3: Building assemblies

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - How to use the exercise files

1. The CSWP Exam

03 - Certification exam software settings
04 - Exam information
05 - Exam-taking techniques
06 - Download the testing software

2. Exam Skills

07 - Sketch entities
08 - Sketch tools
09 - Sketch relations
10 - Boss and Cut features
11 - Revolve
12 - Sweeps and lofts
13 - Fillets and chamfers
14 - Draft
15 - Shell
16 - Hole Wizard
17 - Linear and circular patterns
18 - Linked dimensions
19 - Equations
20 - Mirror
21 - End conditions for features
22 - Multibody parts
23 - Rib
24 - Feature scope
25 - Mass properties
26 - Materials
27 - Inserting components
28 - Restraints
29 - Standard mates
30 - Reference geometry
31 - In-context features
32 - Interference collision detection
33 - Suppression states
34 - Move and rotate components
35 - Assembly features
36 - External references
37 - Design tables
38 - Drawing view types

3. Segment 1 - Part Modeling (70 Minutes)

39 - Model a part from a drawing
40 - Linked dimensions and equations
41 - Equation-based model changes
42 - Modify the part and add complexity
43 - Add structural changes to the part

4. Segment 2 - Part Modifications and Configurations (50 Minutes)

44 - Part modification - Change the angle
45 - Modify a cutout
46 - Work with Shell modifications
47 - Adjust thicknesses
48 - Remove features from parts
49 - Modify complex parts
50 - Add switch configurations
51 - Suppress and unsuppress features

5. Segment 3 - Assemblies (80 Minutes)

52 - Create a coordinate system
53 - Add advanced mates to an assembly
54 - Rigid and flexible assemblies
55 - Collision detection and interference detection
56 - Modify physical properties
57 - Gear Mate
58 - Path Mate
59 - Replace a part in the assembly

Conclusion

60 - Next steps