Attention CSWP's

[macduff]

Just in from SWW2012. SW just announced that CSWP's will no longer be able to attend the special after hours event. You'll need to be a CSWE to attend future events.

Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2010 SP 5.0
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[handleman]

Not a huge surprise. A side effect of dumbing down the CSWP test and reducing its price to get more CSWPs is that you get more CSWPs. It's now truly a worthless cert.

-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

CSWE(litism) at it's finest.

I'm glad I didn't get sucked into the CSW? spiral.

 

[JMirisola]

Well that sucks!

Jeff Mirisola
Director of Engineering
M9 Defense
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[TheTick]

Waiting for the CSWB. Certified SolidWorks Blackshirt.

 

[kellnerp]

Bummer. I never upgraded, but I took the 6 hour CSWP test in NOLA years ago when it was something.

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[KevinDeSmet]

I don't think dumbing down the price was a bad thing, think about, why should it have to cost so much? No reason. Look at CATIA examsn, they go for 250$ a pop and they're just a Q&A multiple choice, not even actually using CATIA! rip. off.

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[macduff]

Paul,
You might be onto something here. I bet if the older CSWP kick and scream a little, they might take/make an acceptation. They're saying the folks that took the exam this past Sunday at the show, 50 of them passed the exam. This is adding now a lot of folks to the CSWP & CSWE pool. I think it's well over 500 folks now.

Colin


Colin Fitzpatrick (aka Macduff)
Mechanical Designer
Solidworks 2010 SP 5.0
Dell T5500 Windows 7 Pro (64-bit)
Xeon CPU 2.53 GHz 6.00 GB of RAM
nVida Quadro 4000 2 GB
3D Connexion-SpaceExplorer

 

[kellnerp]

I can kick and scream pretty good. My disadvantage is that I am still on 2009. A lot of the test is on whatever the current version is. In fact when I took the test I had '99 but the test was in 2000. Add to that I am still on XP and the 7 GUI is a bit strange to me.



TOP
CSWP, BSSE

http://www.engtran.com

http://www.niswug.org

http://www.linkedin.com/in/engineeringtransport

Phenom IIx6 1100T = 8GB = FX1400 = XP64SP2 = SW2009SP3
"Node news is good news."