{"id":20629,"date":"2013-12-04T09:27:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T14:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/?p=20629"},"modified":"2013-12-04T10:57:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T15:57:17","slug":"20629","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2013\/12\/20629.html","title":{"rendered":"CSWP-DRWT exam tests drawing tools in SolidWorks, not drafting &#8220;best practices&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Lucas of<a title=\"3DEngr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/3DEngr.com\"> 3DEngr.com <\/a>exaplains the SolidWorks CSWP advanced exam for Drawing Tools (CSWP-DRWT). <a title=\"CSWP Drawings Intro and Sample Exam\" href=\"https:\/\/www.3dengr.com\/2013\/11\/cswp-drawings-intro-and-sample-exam.html\"><strong>In his series of articles<\/strong><\/a>, he walks through each of the problems on the Drawing Tools practice exam (the exam you should try out before taking the actual test). He goes on to explain,<\/p>\n<ol>&#8220;They are not testing ISO\/ANSI standards, they are not testing best practices, they are not testing the ability to clearly show the function &amp; form of a model, there is no dimensioning or annotation questions. They are testing to see if you know how to use the various tools in SolidWorks- mostly views, BOMs and custom properties.&#8221;<\/ol>\n<p>Essentially, the exam doesn&#8217;t test your knowledge of ASME or ISO standards. The completion of the CSWP-DRWT exam shows that you&#8217;ve demonstrated your ability to use the tools found in the SolidWorks Drawing environment.<\/p>\n<p>For information on the test from SolidWorks and how to take the practice exam, please see the <a title=\"CSWP-Drawing Tools\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sw\/support\/29479_ENU_HTML.htm\"><strong>SolidWorks CSWP-DRWT page<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Lucas of 3DEngr.com exaplains the SolidWorks CSWP advanced exam for Drawing Tools (CSWP-DRWT). In his series of articles, he walks through each of the problems on the Drawing Tools practice exam (the exam you should try out before taking<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2013\/12\/20629.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":18511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,18],"tags":[1216],"class_list":["post-20629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-certification","category-solidworks","tag-drawing-tools"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}