Product Description

If you're looking for an authorized, reliable guide to prepare you to pass the Certified SolidWorks Associate (CSWA) exam, look no further-this is the only authorized CSWA preparation exam guide on the market today. Official Certified SolidWorks Associate CSWA Exam Guide covers the key topics contained on the exam with the aim of helping readers to master each topic as well as the exam itself. The book is more than a collection of practice exam questions because it also devotes attention to the concepts and implementation details that underlie the CSWA process, providing readers with a thorough and comprehensive foundation in SolidWorks. Each chapter includes specially crafted features that introduce key CSWA exam topics, explain them in detail, give the reader an opportunity to apply them in short tutorials, and identify areas of weakness. Ideal for anyone with a basic knowledge of SolidWorks and engineering fundamentals, this book will help you get the certification you need to land the best jobs, get the best promotions, and become a successful professional. Contents: Chapter 1: Basic Theory and Drawing Theory Chapter 2: Part Modeling Chapter 3: Advanced Part Modeling Chapter 4: Assembly Modeling Chapter 5: Advanced Modeling Theory and Analysis

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #352537 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 280 pages

About the Author
David Planchard is the President of D&M Education, LLC. Before starting D&M Education LLC, he spent over 25 years in industry and academia holding various engineering, marketing, and teaching positions and degrees. He has five U.S. patents and one International patent. He has published and authored numerous papers on equipment design. David is also a technical editor for Cisco Press. He is a member of the New England Pro/Users Group, New England SolidWorks Users Group, and the Cisco Regional Academy Users Group. David holds a BSME and a MSM. David is a SolidWorks Solution Partner and holds the Certified SolidWorks Associate CSWA Certification.

Marie Planchard is the Director of World Education Markets at SolidWorks Corporation. Before she joined SolidWorks, Marie spent more than 10 years as an engineering professor at Mass Bay College in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts. She has some 14 years of industry experience and has held a variety of management and engineering positions. Marie has co-authored a variety of books on SolidWorks, Pro/SHEETMETAL, and Pro/ENGINEER. The founder of the New England SolidWorks Users Group, she is an active corporate council member of the American Society of Engineering Education. Marie holds a BSME, MSME, and the Certified SolidWorks Professional (CSWP) Certification.

Customer Reviews

Read and Pass
This is a great book for SolidWorks users. I learned many new techniques going though the exersizes. In spite of four years of industrial exprience using SolidWorks, I would have failed the CSWA exam without this book, becasue many of the modleing methods on the test are not used in my industry.

Excellent exam preparation book
I enjoy the modeling techniques presented in the book which I did not encounter in my Solidworks training; it is always a good practice to learn for any software from different prospective. So this book does not only prepare you to the exam it also teaches you the most effective and smartest modeling techniques.

I pass the exam with 80% mark, but be careful guys, the parts in the exam was NOT easy.

A Must Read
I totally agree with the last reviewer, the CSWA exam is not a walk in the park. I had two semesters of SolidWorks at a local Community College and have been using SolidWorks since graduation last May.

In September, my manager requested that I take and pass the CSWA Certification program. This book is a very reliable resource for anyone interested in taking and passing the CSWA exam. I used this book as my major resource for preparing for the exam in which I passed yesterday......yeah baby!!!!

Actually I did quite well - thanks to this book. Else my chances would have been slimmer. Note: One of my co-workers took it the 1st time this week w/o using a certification study guide like this book and that person failed.

The book covers about 99% of the exam, "concepts and question types". The book is organized by exam sections, which is good because you know you're not wasting time on studying something that you do not need to know for the exam.

The cool thing about the CSWA Certification program is that it is the biggest active industry CAD exam. Now that I passed the exam, does this mean that I will be getting a raise???
Official Certified Solidworks Associate CSWA Exam Book