Free Certification Exam

This one is hot off the press.

Richard Doyle just announced that they have partnered with the Certification team to give anyone that attends a SOLIDWORKS User Group meeting between June 15 and August 15, 2015 a free exam for CSWA, CSWP or CSWPA.

Folks, that's a 99 dollar bill put right into your pocket!

Here are the details:

• Open to all attendees of a summer SOLIDWORKS User Group meeting (June 15th - August 15th)
• Attendee must be physically present at a user group in order to receive a free SOLIDWORKS Certification exam voucher
• Attendee will ask the user group leader for ONE free CSWA, CSWP or CSWPA voucher and provide his name and email address to user group leader
• User group leader will send the list of names and email addresses to Certification Team
• The SOLIDWORKS Certification team will send special test vouchers and instructions to attendees for the requested exam. 
• Vouchers will expire one month from the date they are sent to the attendee
• Find a Group here:  http://www.swugn.org/swugn/directory.htm

To make sure your SWUGLeader is in the know, you might want to have this blog on your phone to show him or have him contact Richard.

Ready, Set, SWUG!!!
Bryan

Marie’s Tips to Passing the CSWP Exam

So, I am departing from the norm on this post.  Marie Planchard, Director of Education Community, SOLIDWORKS presented at our SWUG meeting last night.  She makes an awesome presentation on education and SOLIDWORKS.  If you can snag her for a meeting, I highly recommend it.

Part of her presentation as the title suggests was Tips and Tricks.  With her permission, I'm posting them below.  I'll start getting into mine in the next few posts, but I wanted to share hers with everyone.  I've added my comments in { } to help clarify things that she said verbally.

Thanks Marie for your support of Education, Certification and SWUG. 

Bryan

• Use Global Variables and Equations
• {watch} Number of Decimal Places (Precision) 
• The first multiple choice is right on
• Read the next series of problem variables carefully {They change}
• Problem 1: A=110
• Problem 2: A=120
• Problem 3: A=135
• Reference Coordinate System - Know the Direction of X and Y axis
• {be familiar with} Width Mate and Angle Mate
• Material - exactly {if it says Aluminum 6160, don't use plain Aluminum}
• {Understand} Mass Properties - Mass, Moment of Inertia based on material
• CSWP = passing 3 parts of the exam