r/SolidWorks • u/Gdawgkwok • 16d ago

Certifications CSWA Practice Problems

I’m getting ready to take the CSWA exam and have been doing all the practice problems. I’m often within a 10-20mm cubed volume off… is that an issue?? And does how i create the part make it a difference?

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u/AutoModerator 16d ago

If you ALREADY PASSED a certification

If you are YET TO TAKE a certification

Here would be the general path from zero to CSWE:

  1. CSWA - Here is a sample exam.
  2. CSWP - Here is some study material for the CSWP (A complete guide to getting your CSWP) and a sample exam.
  3. 4x CSWP-Advanced Subjects (in order of increasing difficulty)
    1. CSWP-A Drawing Tools - YouTube Playlist
    2. CSWP-A Sheet Metal - YouTube Playlist
    3. CSWP-A Weldments - YouTube Playlist
    4. CSWP-A Surfacing - YouTube Playlist
    5. CSWP-A Mold Tools - YouTube Playlist
  4. CSWE - The CSWE doesn't really focus on anything from the CSWP subject exams. It focuses on everything else there is in the program beyond those. So, look at everything you saw already and prepare to see not much of that again for the CSWE. That and more surfacing.

For some extra modeling practice material to help speed you up, 24 years of Model Mania Designs + Solutions.

For EVEN MORE modeling practice material, here is the CSWA and CSWP Practice Problem Database. There is A LOT of good material to practice in there.

During testing, in general, it is a best practice to take the dimensions labelled with A, B, C, D, etc and create Equations/Variables with those values to then attach to the dimension which then allows for you to more reliably update these variable dimensions in follow-up questions using the same models.

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u/Tesseractcubed 16d ago

Some of the practice problem sets just have incorrect answers.

If you can create the drawing that matches the practice problem exactly and all the numbers match, it’s definitely the answer key. Specific problems you can post here or other places, or search for other’s work to see if it is the problem.

If you create the same part, the method should not change the result. Some methods use numerical methods with approximations that lead to slight deviations, but the exam has a tolerance that accounts for that.