CSWP Part Modeling & Assembly Design 5 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: In a SOLIDWORKS assembly, the 'Exploded View' feature is used to:
- Simulate component motion along their mates
- Separate components visually to show assembly sequence (Correct answer)
- Detect clashes between moving parts
- Create a bill of materials automatically
Correct answer: Separate components visually to show assembly sequence
Exploded View moves components apart along specified directions to illustrate how parts fit together for documentation or assembly instructions.
Question 2: Which SOLIDWORKS end condition creates an extrusion that stops exactly at a selected planar face or surface, even if the face is not flat?
- Blind
- Up to Surface (Correct answer)
- Through All
- Mid Plane
Correct answer: Up to Surface
Up to Surface terminates the extrusion exactly at the selected face, conforming to non-planar surfaces as well.
Question 3: What is the effect of adding a 'Draft' to an extruded boss in SOLIDWORKS?
- It rounds the top edges of the extrusion
- It tapers the sidewalls of the extrusion by a specified angle (Correct answer)
- It offsets the extrusion from the sketch plane
- It creates a hollow shell of the extrusion
Correct answer: It tapers the sidewalls of the extrusion by a specified angle
Draft applies a taper angle to the walls of the extrusion, typically used to allow molded parts to release from tooling.
Question 4: In SOLIDWORKS, the 'Hole Wizard' creates standardized holes. Which information is NOT required by the Hole Wizard?
- Hole type (e.g., counterbore, countersink)
- Standard (e.g., ANSI, ISO)
- Fastener size
- Material of the surrounding solid (Correct answer)
Correct answer: Material of the surrounding solid
The Hole Wizard defines hole geometry from standard, type, and fastener size; it does not consider the part's material.
Question 5: When a SOLIDWORKS part uses multiple bodies (multi-body part), which feature can combine them into a single solid?
- Intersect
- Combine (Correct answer)
- Split
- Move/Copy Bodies
Correct answer: Combine
The Combine feature merges, subtracts, or intersects multiple solid bodies within a single part into one resulting body.
Question 6: In an assembly FeatureManager tree, a component shown with a minus sign (–) prefix indicates:
- The component is suppressed
- The component is under-mated and has remaining degrees of freedom (Correct answer)
- The component has a rebuild error
- The component is a virtual part
Correct answer: The component is under-mated and has remaining degrees of freedom
A (–) prefix means the component is under-constrained — it still has one or more unconstrained degrees of freedom.
Question 7: Which SOLIDWORKS sketch tool creates an exact copy of existing model edges projected onto the active sketch plane?
- Offset Entities
- Convert Entities (Correct answer)
- Intersection Curve
- Face Curves
Correct answer: Convert Entities
Convert Entities projects selected model edges or faces onto the sketch plane as sketch geometry, fully linked to the original.
CSWP Part Modeling & Assembly Design 5
In a SOLIDWORKS assembly, the 'Exploded View' feature is used to: