Onshape by PTC
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Onshape: SaaS CAD | The Future of CAD, available TODAY
What do you like best about the product?
Onshape is a full feature MCAD program, always updated, always available, no maintenance, no drama. Excellent to use. Features are being added all the time, but it's already full featured and a real pleasure to use. Designing in context of an assembly, capturing design intent with top-down part studios, without worrying about blow-ups or clunky workflows!
It's all done in the browser on your desktop, or if you want you can install an app on your phone or slate. It's also free BTW! But you need to play for a licence if you want your work to be confidential.
Also, easy to design and evaluate alternative ideas and review/roll-back with software development type tools, Git-like. fork a design and add branches for different ideas as required. Really easy to collaborate with fine grained access control. Allows comments at various places from collaborators too, so no need for lengthy emails and embedded screen shots.
If the legacy MCAD people were thinking about a new CAD system, without worrying about what has been; this would be their common thought-destination. And now with PTC/Creo/Windchill IP and client base, it can only get stronger.
Installing a desktop application and maintaining it with various service packs, what a needless kafuffle!?
It's all done in the browser on your desktop, or if you want you can install an app on your phone or slate. It's also free BTW! But you need to play for a licence if you want your work to be confidential.
Also, easy to design and evaluate alternative ideas and review/roll-back with software development type tools, Git-like. fork a design and add branches for different ideas as required. Really easy to collaborate with fine grained access control. Allows comments at various places from collaborators too, so no need for lengthy emails and embedded screen shots.
If the legacy MCAD people were thinking about a new CAD system, without worrying about what has been; this would be their common thought-destination. And now with PTC/Creo/Windchill IP and client base, it can only get stronger.
Installing a desktop application and maintaining it with various service packs, what a needless kafuffle!?
What do you dislike about the product?
Not a lot to dislike about Onshape. Sometimes the internet is down, rare to be honest, and you can always mitigate that with mobile data as required -- there is not a massive amount of data going back and forth. Sometimes I have dark imaginings of storing data in the cloud but have been much more relaxed about that since around 2002, with salesforce.com implementation!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Onshape for MCAD, generating assemblies, parts and drawings. It's great for all of the above. In particular, the part studio concept is brilliant for capturing design intent. Robust assemblies without assembling a load of bits and bobs with bottom-up and messing around with the fits. Easy to maintain. Just works like it should. And when you do assemble parts, 6 degrees of freedom solved in one interaction, or movement resolved and constrained to real life in a trice.
The Git-like branches and forks are also easy to use. You can make a complete copy of a design to try out new idea, or use branches to experiment with what-if scenarios and switch them on or off.
For me, the part studio concept is a terrific way of capturing design intent, where the necessary inter-related parts are all designed in the same space. Small or large changes can be enacted very quickly without much fuss. Much easier than changing different parts in a bottom-up assembly or figuring out what parameters do what in a driven design, sometimes a chore to figure out even if you did all the work yourself last month.
The Git-like branches and forks are also easy to use. You can make a complete copy of a design to try out new idea, or use branches to experiment with what-if scenarios and switch them on or off.
For me, the part studio concept is a terrific way of capturing design intent, where the necessary inter-related parts are all designed in the same space. Small or large changes can be enacted very quickly without much fuss. Much easier than changing different parts in a bottom-up assembly or figuring out what parameters do what in a driven design, sometimes a chore to figure out even if you did all the work yourself last month.
Good when designing but needs some more focus on long term approach.
What do you like best about the product?
I enjoy how intuitive some of the tools are when creating parts and drawings. When I first started it didn't take long to get up and going.
What do you dislike about the product?
The ability to design multiple parts in one part studio is easily abused by engineers especially when in a rush. Too many parts are created in one part studio and there is no easy way to unlinked them.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easy for team collaboration and data storing.
An engineer-centric CAD system
What do you like best about the product?
Onshape surfacing tools are great, especially the delete and heal face function. The move face function is also simple and robust.
The fact that I don't need an expensive workstation is also big bonus.
The fact that I don't need an expensive workstation is also big bonus.
What do you dislike about the product?
It takes a bit to get used to the mating methodology, as it's markedly different from other CAD packages.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Owning our own designs, interfacing with our vendors.
Simply the best
What do you like best about the product?
The easiest 3D modeling software there is. Access files from anywhere. Share files safely. No installation needed. Automatic upgrades.
What do you dislike about the product?
Missing a few features. 3rd party apps are intgrated but don't always work.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
With other software, accessing old files can be difficult do to upgrades. I have not had this problem with onShape. Old files are updated seamlisily.
Love using Onshape!
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use. Quick to create 3D models and drawings.
What do you dislike about the product?
Would love to have CAM software integrated into it. I know it's on its way.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Quick 3D Modelling. I always have limited time.
Great CAD experience, now in a browser!
What do you like best about the product?
That it's avaliable everywhere I have internet access.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the features are not as powerful as in Solidworks
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Onshape provides us with a universal, easy to access CAD platform without the expense of putting in IT infrastructure.
Onshape is an outstanding piece of software, perfect for my needs as a furniture designer.
What do you like best about the product?
It's a fluid process to go from a rough pencil and paper concept to form definition in Onshape. Modeling parts together in a part studio with the aid of variables to tweek proportions is intuitive and suits my working style making it easy to roughly iterate designs and then drill down to details when the time comes. The workflow from parts to assemblies is intuitive with streamlined mate features making it quick and easy to build assemblies, exploded views and add standard parts. Finally drawings extend the same ease of use making it a straight forward process to detail designs to standard in a proffesional manner.
The cloud nature of the software makes it extradinarily easy to share work with colleagues or to collaborate. The added benifit of a subscription based software is that it is continuously being updated. Support from the folks at Onshape has been great. I've never needed technical support for any software issues but the team has reached out on occasion to make sure my experiences have been good.
All in all this makes Onshape my go to CAD software for all my furniture designing needs with plenty of scope for my own professional development.
The cloud nature of the software makes it extradinarily easy to share work with colleagues or to collaborate. The added benifit of a subscription based software is that it is continuously being updated. Support from the folks at Onshape has been great. I've never needed technical support for any software issues but the team has reached out on occasion to make sure my experiences have been good.
All in all this makes Onshape my go to CAD software for all my furniture designing needs with plenty of scope for my own professional development.
What do you dislike about the product?
I sometimes require the need to add aditional detail to a drawing that does not form part of the imported model geometry. As there are limited sketching tools inside a drawing it took me sometime to realise that I could just sketch it out in a part studio and then import that sketch into a drawing. This is the only aspect that wasn't so intuitive for me but makes sense in hindsight.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Onshape provides an accessible modern CAD solution for design iteration, form definition and detailing intended for manufacturing. Thus it provides me with the perfect platform for designing and spec-ing furniture intended for production.
No updates or unexpected updates
What do you like best about the product?
Great cad with no need for expensive hardware. There are no software crashes and updates.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is no offline version with it being SaaS. Would be great to in low/no interest areas
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We completed all of our mechanical design, using Onshape. We do not have a initial cost for hardware does great benefit for cash flow.
Still looks like the future.
What do you like best about the product?
What do I like best about OnShape? Well no CAD software is perfect so you are always trying to wring the best out of what you have. This means productivity in terms of useful work done per hour and retun on investment in terms of £'s (in my case) spent on equipment/services per fee hour earned. OnShape hits both nails squarely on the head.
Total confidence that every hour spent on CAD work is retained and reusable design work or training investment. Not having to remember to save, recreating unsaved design work, sorting out which version to work on, unable to load legacy data, upgrading software. These are all non-fee-earning activities.
Get useful work done anywhere there is a descent network access, on a mid-range platform. I use to use a mobile workstation for presenting work and on-site workshops. The physical weight, concern of loosing the workstation and the cost of a replacement (in termes on £'s and time (3 days)) was, literally as well as figuratively, a weight off my shoulders when I changed to OnShape and a off-the-shelf laptop (replacement cost 1/4, replacement time 1/6, back up an running the same day).
Features are improving every quater, training and documentation is very good and its open source aspect is a untapped potential.
Total confidence that every hour spent on CAD work is retained and reusable design work or training investment. Not having to remember to save, recreating unsaved design work, sorting out which version to work on, unable to load legacy data, upgrading software. These are all non-fee-earning activities.
Get useful work done anywhere there is a descent network access, on a mid-range platform. I use to use a mobile workstation for presenting work and on-site workshops. The physical weight, concern of loosing the workstation and the cost of a replacement (in termes on £'s and time (3 days)) was, literally as well as figuratively, a weight off my shoulders when I changed to OnShape and a off-the-shelf laptop (replacement cost 1/4, replacement time 1/6, back up an running the same day).
Features are improving every quater, training and documentation is very good and its open source aspect is a untapped potential.
What do you dislike about the product?
Slow response to support. If you are use to having your hand held and needing instant support then the extra cost of other vendors is worth it.
If you are independant, resourceful and find you know more than the support team then OnShape is OK but they need to work on this.
Part of its strength is its ability to move stuff around and rename things without having to worry about conflicts and access rights. But, unless you have a bit of rigour and structure to your file handling you can get in an awful mess. With great power com great responibility... to be tidy!
Not being able to work off line or if the network is iffy (clients with rubbish wi-fi and uncooperative IT departments, the boonies, travelling).
But that said I have always found a way around this and it has never been a show stopper.
If you are independant, resourceful and find you know more than the support team then OnShape is OK but they need to work on this.
Part of its strength is its ability to move stuff around and rename things without having to worry about conflicts and access rights. But, unless you have a bit of rigour and structure to your file handling you can get in an awful mess. With great power com great responibility... to be tidy!
Not being able to work off line or if the network is iffy (clients with rubbish wi-fi and uncooperative IT departments, the boonies, travelling).
But that said I have always found a way around this and it has never been a show stopper.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
OnShape does not solve problems that other comprable CAD software achieves. It just does things differently.
The assembly relations is a more efficient mate building process.
The product data management is effortless.
The design release process will be more efficient,if ever get around to implementing it.
The assembly relations is a more efficient mate building process.
The product data management is effortless.
The design release process will be more efficient,if ever get around to implementing it.
Great program for 3d design
What do you like best about the product?
What I really like about Onshape is how easy to use, to collaborate with others. It also has a lot of features present in the majority of 3d modeling programs. Customer support is by far one of the best I've ever interacted with, so helpful and responsive. It was a very easy implementation to how we organize and use our parts library. I use it on a daily basis and I enjoy almost every minute of it.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have a Solidworks background, so some of the features are pretty similar and intuitive. That being said, the are a few quality of life upgrades I wish they would implement. One in particular is an actual 3d sketch feature, this would be absolutely helpful when we design steel frame enclosures.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows us to model our product in great detail, create helpful and accurate drawings for fabrication. BOM are helpful as well, they are very accurate and help a ton for our procurement department.
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