CERTIFICATIONS

SOLIDWORKS software includes many advanced surfacing tools. The Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional Surfacing Specialist exam is used to gauge someone’s ability to utilize these tools in the creation of complex surfaces. Successful completion of this exam also shows the user’s ability to troubleshoot and fix broken surface bodies, or imported bodies that are incorrect.

Exam Prerequisites:
To qualify to take the CSWP - Mold Tools Exam, a candidate must have:

• SOLIDWORKS Essentials
• SOLIDWORKS Surfacing

The Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional Surfacing Specialist 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 90 days to retake the exam.

Minimum Passing grade: 75%
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:

• Spline Creation
• 3D Curve Creation
• Boundary Surface
• Filled Surface
• Swept Surface
• Planar Surface
• Knit Surface
• Trim Surface
• Untrim Surface
• Move Face
• Extend Surface
• Fillet
• Thicken