Cert Prep: SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal

Prepare for the Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional Advanced Sheet Metal (CSWPA-SM) exam. Refresh your skills with flanges, hems, bend tables, and equations.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. Getting Ready for the CSWPA-SM Exam

• Certification exam software settings
• Exam info
• Exam taking techniques
• Downloading the testing software

2. Sheet Metal Tools

• Linear edge flange
• Edge flange profile
• Curved edge flange
• Miter flange
• Miter flange: Example 2
• Closed corner
• Gauge tables
• Bending calculations using K-Factor, bend deduction, and bend allowance
• Hem
• Jog
• Sketched bend
• Forming tool
• Unfold and fold
• Flatten
• Convert to Sheet Metal
• Sheet metal cut list properties

3. Sample Exam Questions

• Modeling a sheet metal part from a drawing
• Updating dimensions/equations
• Working with a flat pattern and K-Factor
• Modifying individual bends
• Adding hems
• Boundary area of a flat pattern

Conclusion

• Next steps