@TheCADWhisperer wrote:
@TrippyLighting wrote:
US$150! Really?
According to this list - that is the cost for Professional level exams, not the User level. (USA and Canada)
My comment was less aimed at the price alone, but whether the benefits of having such a certificate outweigh the cost/effort.
For Software Packages such as Autodesk Inventor or Solid Works, which combined cover 90% of the CAD software in professional use today, $150 is certainly not a large investment and it might give an Engineer at the beginning of his career an edge.
I am not sure I can see the benefit of such a certificate yet for Fusion 360.
I am not an educator and have little insight into what hiring managers are looking for nowadays. My guess is that these certificates are useful if you want to work for larger engineering firms. However, larger engineering firms usually are engaged in larger projects that require mature and feature-rich engineering software, which Fusion 360 isn't quite yet (IMHO).