CSWA Prep Course

CSWA certification

An entry level certification designed to measure the SOLIDWORKS skills of pre-professional users.

Before starting the exam:

Open SolidWorks, open new part file, set units, and set material.

Global Variables

Used in SOLIDWORKS in both Sketches and Features to control the value of a dimension.

Model View

A single view based on a predefined view orientation.

Projected View

A projected view is an orthographic projection of a parent view at 90 degrees. (Right, Top, Left, B

Auxiliary View

An auxiliary view is a projected view that is normal to a reference edge.

Section View

Created by cutting the parent view using a section line in order to see inside details.

Partial Section View

A section view that does not cut through the entire model.

Aligned Section View

Special types of section views that allow you to show details of a section created at an angle.

are commonly used for drawing with rotational symmetry such as wheels or flanges that have holes or other features arrayed in a circular pattern.

Aligned Section View

In an aligned section view, if a standard section line cannot be drawn vertically or horizontally to go through the center of a feature then is used that does not line up with the parent view.

angled section line

Broken-Out Section View

Cut away a portion of an assembly in order to expose the inside.

Detail View

Show portions of a model that are difficult to see in the parent view.

Relative to Model View

Define views by selecting any face from the model that does not require a parent view or have a view arrow.

Standard 2 View

Creates 3 default orthographic views of the model (Top, Front, Right Side).

Break View

Create a break/gap in a model so that the view can fit on a smaller drawing sheet.

Cropped View

Omit a portion of a view and are enclosed using a sketch, such as a spline, and is similar to a detail view but does not create an additional zoomed in view.

Alternate Position View

Show a range of motion in a 2D drawing and will usually be an assembly and a superimposed view in a different line font indicating how one or more components can move.

It is possible to have multiple Alternate Position Views in a single drawing. True or false?

True

Empty View

Can be used to hold manually sketch entities in a drawing

Predefined View

Used to preselect model orientations, positions, and scales to use one a drawing template.