First CSWEs in Oregon and Washington - Shounco Design AE's

We are proud to announce the Shounco Design Studios application engineers are the first Certified SOLIDWORKS Experts in the states of Oregon and Washington.

Defined by SolidWorks;

"A Certified SOLIDWORKS Expert is someone who easily demonstrates the ability to utilize advanced functions and features to solve complex modeling challenges inside SolidWorks. A CSWE will be well rounded in their knowledge of all areas of the SOLIDWORKS software. A CSWE is able to solve practically any modeling problem given to them, and is traditionally the go-to SOLIDWORKS user among their colleagues."

The CSWE exam is the most challenging exam that SOLIDWORKS offers to users. Just to qualify to take the CSWE exam, a candidate must have:

• Successfully passed the CSWP exam
• Successfully passed at least three advanced topic exams

The 3 hour exam tests their knowledge in the following areas:

• Lofts
• Sweeps
• In-context assembly changes
• Imported part modification
• Belts and chains
• Sketch blocks
• Multi-bodies
• In-context assembly design
• Sketch pictures
• Spring modeling
• Move/Copy bodies
• Split tool

Congratulations to Shayne Prichard, Kris Dubuque, Clem See and Michael Zocchi!