Cert Prep: SOLIDWORKS Weldments
1h 26mIntermediate2017-09-26
Authors
Gabriel Corbett
Product Designer, Instructor, and Speaker
Course details
Prepare for the Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional Advanced Weldments (CSWPA-WD) exam. Earning the CSWPA-WD certification shows proof of expertise—the type of the cutting-edge skills that businesses seek out and reward. This course prepares you to ace the exam, and stand out from the crowd in today's competitive job market.
Join Gabriel Corbett as he reviews the exam requirements, along with testing techniques and tips to make more effective use of your time. He refreshes your knowledge of fundamentals such as creating and saving weldment profiles, building sketches, trimming and extending weldments, applying corner treatments, and creating end caps and gussets. He also covers advanced weldment creation, profile alignment, and weldment cut lists. Last, but not least, he reviews questions from a sample exam and provides pointers for measuring parts correctly and verifying the unit system.
Learning objectives
Test-taking techniques
Placing and locating weldment profiles
Modifying corners
Placing gaps at corners and segment intersections
End caps and gussets
Modifying weldment parts
Creating a 3D sketch
Creating cut lists
Join Gabriel Corbett as he reviews the exam requirements, along with testing techniques and tips to make more effective use of your time. He refreshes your knowledge of fundamentals such as creating and saving weldment profiles, building sketches, trimming and extending weldments, applying corner treatments, and creating end caps and gussets. He also covers advanced weldment creation, profile alignment, and weldment cut lists. Last, but not least, he reviews questions from a sample exam and provides pointers for measuring parts correctly and verifying the unit system.
Learning objectives
Test-taking techniques
Placing and locating weldment profiles
Modifying corners
Placing gaps at corners and segment intersections
End caps and gussets
Modifying weldment parts
Creating a 3D sketch
Creating cut lists
Skills covered
SOLIDWORKSDassaultManufacturingProduct and Industrial DesignProduct and ManufacturingCert Prep
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
- 02 - Using the exercise files
1. Getting Ready for the CSWPA-WD
- 03 - Certification exam software settings
- 04 - Exam info
- 05 - Exam-taking techniques
- 06 - Downloading the testing software
2. Weldment Tools
- 07 - Weldment profile creation
- 08 - Placing the weldment profile in the weldment profile library
- 09 - Basic and advanced weldment part creation
- 10 - Locating a weldment profile
- 11 - Weldment corner modification
- 12 - Profile alignment
- 13 - Placing gaps at corners and segment intersections
- 14 - End caps
- 15 - Gussets
- 16 - Weldment part modification
- 17 - Using the Trim Extend command
- 18 - 3D sketch creation
- 19 - Cut list folder management in the weldment part
- 20 - Cut list creation in the weldment drawing
3. Sample Exam Questions
- 21 - Question 1 - Creating a weldment profile
- 22 - Question 2 - 3D sketch creation
- 23 - Question 3 - Initial part creation
- 24 - Question 4 - Vertical leg creation
- 25 - Question 5 - 3 Segment corner miter
Conclusion
- 26 - Next steps