Professional advanced certifications address very specific functions within SOLIDWORKS. Often, these certifications are applicable to more specific industries compared to the CSWP certificate. All these certificates are advanced specializations of the CSWP certificate. Advanced certificates offered by SOLIDWORKS are as follows:

• Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional Advanced—Sheet Metal (CSWPA-SM): This focuses on applications related to sheet metal. This includes bending sheet metal into different shapes, as well as conducting different related analyses. 
• Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional Advanced—Weldments (CSWPA-WD): This focuses on applications related to welding. This includes welding both sheet metals and different formations such as frames. 
• Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional Advanced—Surfacing (CSWPA-SU): This focuses on modeling surfaces of irregular shapes, such as car bodies and computer mice. 

• Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional Advanced—Mold Making (CSWPA-MM): This focuses on making molds for productions. This includes molds for both metal and plastic parts. 
• Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional Advanced—Advanced Drawing Tools (CSWPA-DT): This focuses more on generating 2D engineering drawings to help communicate models to different parties. These can include internal quality teams or external manufacturers.