Cert Prep: SOLIDWORKS Drawing Tools

Course details

CSWPA-DT certification shows proof of SOLIDWORKS expertise—the type of cutting-edge skill that businesses seek out and reward. Everyone who passes the CSWPA-DT (Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional Advanced Drawing Tools) exam has proven their mastery of the SOLIDWORKS drawing tools. This course prepares you to take the exam and stand out from the crowd in today's competitive job market. Gabriel Corbett shows you where to download the testing software, and goes through each of the objectives in detail, focusing on effective use of time and the most relevant knowledge needed to pass the exam. He covers creating complex projections and views, building a bill of materials (BOM), linking custom properties, adding notes and equations, and sorting and configuring the BOM. In the "Sample Exam Questions" chapter, he provides six sample questions and demonstrates how to address them using SOLIDWORKS.

Learning objectives
Downloading the testing software
Working with drawing views
Accessing data in the bill of materials
Using equations with BOM data
Importing model items
Creating complex views
Sample exam questions and answers

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Using the exercise files

1. Getting Ready for the CSWPA-DT

03 - Certification exam software settings
04 - Exam info
05 - Exam-taking techniques
06 - Downloading the testing software

2. Drawing Tools

07 - Basic view creation
08 - Section views
09 - Auxiliary views
10 - Alternate Position views
11 - Relative to Model views
12 - Broken-out section
13 - View focus when creating 2D geometry
14 - BOM table creation and modification
15 - Sorting the BOM
16 - BOM missing items
17 - Accessing custom properties in BOM
18 - Using equations with BOM data
19 - Item numbers and their display
20 - Hide show components
21 - Linked notes
22 - Importing model items
23 - Complex view creation

3. Sample Exam Questions

24 - Question 1 - View creation
25 - Question 2 - Projected view creation
26 - Question 3 - Section views
27 - Question 4 - BOM creation
28 - Question 5 - Reordering and modifying the BOM
29 - Question 6 - Using equations in the BOM

Conclusion

30 - Next steps