3DEXPERIENCE Mechanical Designer - Professional

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3DEXPERIENCE Mechanical Designer - Professional As a certified 3DEXPERIENCE Mechanical Designer - Professional, you have proven your knowledge and skills with CATIA modeling techniques after initial training and a minimum of three months of regular practice using CATIA Mechanical Design core products (Part Design, Assembly Design, and Drafting). This exam proposes hands-on challenges based on industrial use cases that will require you to design, modify and analyze parts and assemblies. Understanding of design intent and drafting principles is assessed in multiple-choice questions.

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• Duration: 3 hours
• Target audience: End-users; Students
• Recommended preparation courses, part of the Perform as a Mechanical Designer Learning Path
  • Explore the Collaborative Business Innovator Role
  • Practice CATIA Part Design
  • Practice CATIA Assembly Design
  • Practice CATIA Drafting
  • Practice CATIA Mechanical Systems Design
• Required Product: 3DEXPERIENCE platform R2016x or higher
• Number of questions: 19 
• Minimum score to pass: 210 points out of 300 (70%)
• Available Languages: Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish
• Prerequisite skills
  • Ability to search parts in the 3DEXPERIENCE database
  • Ability to use the following 3DEXPERIENCE apps: Part Design, Assembly Design, Mechanical Design Systems and Drafting
  • Ability to understand a dimensioned drawing
• Skills tested
  • Ability to design solid parts: sketch 2D profiles, offset profiles, create extruded and revolution features, create repetitive geometry, split a part using a surface, add dress-up features (fillets, drafts…) to a part, apply material, analyze the geometry (mass, center of gravity)
  • Ability to build assemblies: create a part in context, engineering connections, create and simulate a mechanism, analyze interferences and solve clashes, apply material, calculate the weight of components, and the mass and center of gravity of an assembly
  • Understand design intent applied to solid parts and assemblies such as: reordering and update principles, specification tree features and nodes, impact of modifications, degrees of freedom
  • Understand Drafting capabilities applied to parts and assemblies such as view creation, dimensions and annotations, compass usage, dimension links, projection methods, sections and views, bill of materials, overload properties