CSWP-CDES

Learn how to become a Certified SolidWorks Professional (CSWPCDES) COSMOSWorks Designer Specialist.

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COSMOSWorks Designer

Exam Length: 2 hours

Minimum Passing grade: 70%

All candidates receive electronic certifcates, business card logos and personal listing on CSWP directory when they pass.

Exam features hand calculations in the following areas:

• Free body diagrams - Resolving Reaction force and moments
• Basic stress and strain calculations
  • Shear stress, Axial stress
  • Lateral strain, Axial strain
• Calculating material properties
  • Elastic modulus
  • Poisson's ratio

Exam features hands-on challenges in many of these areas:

• Geometry
  • Defeaturing
  • Idealization
  • Clean up (Ex: suppressing cosmetic features)
• Material
  • Understanding ductile and brittle materials
  • Understanding material failure theories
  • Creating and modifying material properties
• Meshing
  • Draft/High quality solid mesh
  • Application of mesh controls on areas of interest
• Contacts
  • Simulating interactions between parts of an assembly
  • Modeling contacts based on loading type (Bending, Axial, shear)
• Restraints
  • Fixed - Easy to use. Ramifications if any?
  • Using Symmetry to reduce model size
  • Using Symmetry to constrain rigid body motions
  • Bolt connectors - simplify assembly analysis
• Loads
  • Force loading with respect to reference plane
  • Load distribution based on selecting one or more geometry in same selection set
  • Load manipulation while using symmetry
• Results
  • Significance of vonMises stress
  • Significance of Principal stresses
  • Significance of stress intensity
  • Factor of safety calculations
  • Getting reaction forces
  • Getting results on components of interest

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