SW API Certification Exam

[Austin Schukar]

Has anyone here taken the API Professional certification exam? If so, what were your thoughts on it? The example test was not very thorough.

We have exam codes to use and I'm thinking about burning another.

[zwei]

I will be taking mine this friday... (I dun really expect to pass but more to get the hang of it...)
I will provide more inputs once i took it

[Austin Schukar]

I will be taking mine this friday... (I dun really expect to pass but more to get the hang of it...)
I will provide more inputs once i took it

Good luck

[zwei]

So.........
Long story short
I just finished and manage to pass the cswp-api (barely)...(Dint really expect that i will pass...)

My key takeaway

• Have the API help page open, a lot of the question can be answered by searching even if you never see the command before... Link: https://help.solidworks.com/2018/englis ... 602782#Pg0

• Having https://www.codestack.net/solidworks-ap ... s-diagram/ open is also very helpful

• Some of the theory question is quite tough to me since it involve some theory like interface and accessor (which i never really bothered before...)

• The hands-on is challenging but fun , some of them is harder where you need to transverse some feature/dimension and do some counting etc

• A lot of the question are multiple choice question and some of them is in the form of code so you can try and error each of the option to brute force through it

• Some question can be solved without setting up a proper macro, use whatever method that you find most comfortable (eg: instead of writing out the code to find the longest name, i just print each of the name and find it using excel)

Some of the question require more time and effort than others. The questions also provide some insight on the difficulty level of each question.
To be honest, i barely have enough time to complete all question (i think i just guess through the last 2~3 question).

^{On second thought... i should never take the exam during midnight}

My suggestion is maybe skip the theory question in the front if you dont have any answer for it so that you have more time to work on the question which involve hands-on.

For some reason my tangix tester client crashed like 5 times during the test.. i guess even tangix finally joined solidworks family of crashing eh?

[mattpeneguy]

So.........
Long story short
I just finished and manage to pass the cswp-api (barely)...(Dint really expect that i will pass...)

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My key takeaway

• Have the API help page open, a lot of the question can be answered by searching even if you never see the command before... Link: https://help.solidworks.com/2018/englis ... 602782#Pg0

• Having https://www.codestack.net/solidworks-ap ... s-diagram/ open is also very helpful

• Some of the theory question is quite tough to me since it involve some theory like interface and accessor (which i never really bothered before...)

• The hands-on is challenging but fun , some of them is harder where you need to transverse some feature/dimension and do some counting etc

• A lot of the question are multiple choice question and some of them is in the form of code so you can try and error each of the option to brute force through it

• Some question can be solved without setting up a proper macro, use whatever method that you find most comfortable (eg: instead of writing out the code to find the longest name, i just print each of the name and find it using excel)

Some of the question require more time and effort than others. The questions also provide some insight on the difficulty level of each question.
To be honest, i barely have enough time to complete all question (i think i just guess through the last 2~3 question).

^{On second thought... i should never take the exam during midnight}

My suggestion is maybe skip the theory question in the front if you dont have any answer for it so that you have more time to work on the question which involve hands-on.

For some reason my tangix tester client crashed like 5 times during the test.. i guess even tangix finally joined solidworks family of crashing eh?

Were you using an approved graphics card?

Congratulations btw.

[Austin Schukar]

So.........
Long story short
I just finished and manage to pass the cswp-api (barely)...(Dint really expect that i will pass...)

image.png

My key takeaway

• Have the API help page open, a lot of the question can be answered by searching even if you never see the command before... Link: https://help.solidworks.com/2018/englis ... 602782#Pg0

• Having https://www.codestack.net/solidworks-ap ... s-diagram/ open is also very helpful

• Some of the theory question is quite tough to me since it involve some theory like interface and accessor (which i never really bothered before...)

• The hands-on is challenging but fun , some of them is harder where you need to transverse some feature/dimension and do some counting etc

• A lot of the question are multiple choice question and some of them is in the form of code so you can try and error each of the option to brute force through it

• Some question can be solved without setting up a proper macro, use whatever method that you find most comfortable (eg: instead of writing out the code to find the longest name, i just print each of the name and find it using excel)

Some of the question require more time and effort than others. The questions also provide some insight on the difficulty level of each question.
To be honest, i barely have enough time to complete all question (i think i just guess through the last 2~3 question).

^{On second thought... i should never take the exam during midnight}

My suggestion is maybe skip the theory question in the front if you dont have any answer for it so that you have more time to work on the question which involve hands-on.

For some reason my tangix tester client crashed like 5 times during the test.. i guess even tangix finally joined solidworks family of crashing eh?

Wow - nice! Congrats. Thanks so much for the write-up. Think I'm decent enough at navigating the help interface, but yeah, I wasn't sure how much programming theory questions would be asked, since I'm not formally trained.