Onshape by PTC
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Forward thinking and growing cad.
What do you like best about the product?
The approach and constant development.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it freezes and crashes. There are things to do.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Collaborating, cloud data storing.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I genuinely would recommend Onshape, I like to work with it and I am looking forward to all the new improvements and developments it is growing weary fast. If you are not familiar you should give it a try, they have great learning center.
My go-to CAD program
What do you like best about the product?
-No PLM
-No VARS
-Work on any device, including a Chromebook
-Real time collaboration
-Can share files in real time with view only options
-Simultaneous flat pattern in sheet metal
-Quick and easy mate connectors
-Powerful part and assembly configuration tools
-Cheaper than other professional CAD programs
Additionally, the team is very responsive to support tickets and feedback. There are updates every 3 weeks or so that add features, stability, and improvements. They have been playing around with speed increases that are impossible on traditional CAD programs and can leverage the use of multiple servers operating in parallel.
-No VARS
-Work on any device, including a Chromebook
-Real time collaboration
-Can share files in real time with view only options
-Simultaneous flat pattern in sheet metal
-Quick and easy mate connectors
-Powerful part and assembly configuration tools
-Cheaper than other professional CAD programs
Additionally, the team is very responsive to support tickets and feedback. There are updates every 3 weeks or so that add features, stability, and improvements. They have been playing around with speed increases that are impossible on traditional CAD programs and can leverage the use of multiple servers operating in parallel.
What do you dislike about the product?
-can slow down on big assemblies or with less than stellar internet connections
-limited surfacing tools
-drawing tools are still behind Solidworks
-limited surfacing tools
-drawing tools are still behind Solidworks
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allows me to immediately share live documents with my clients without requiring them to buy a license.
Lets me use a Chromebook when traveling.
Lets me work from anywhere with internet access and I know I have latest files.
I never need to meet with a VAR
Real time collaboration
Lets me use a Chromebook when traveling.
Lets me work from anywhere with internet access and I know I have latest files.
I never need to meet with a VAR
Real time collaboration
Switched from SolidWorks after starting my own Design Consulting business
What do you like best about the product?
I really appreciate how easy it is to share my work and current progress with other team members. Whether it’s with other engineer collaborators, clients, or manufacturing partners, it’s been very easy for these partners to view and use the shared files I have sent.
I like not having to worry about my powerful workstation if I need to work on the road. Having the freedom to work remotely from a fast internet connection is great.
I like not having to worry about my powerful workstation if I need to work on the road. Having the freedom to work remotely from a fast internet connection is great.
What do you dislike about the product?
I did have some trouble with some of the advanced features such as certain surfacing tools that weren’t available at that time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Lower investment and annual costs for traditional enterprise solid CAD, which equates to lower overall costs for my small business.
Flexibility to work remotely
Flexibility to work remotely
My Experience with Onshape
What do you like best about the product?
I love Onshape's intuitive and easy-to-use interface compared with other CAD tools I have used. It just works. Onshape allows me to do graphically intensive CAD work on a laptop with minimal specs. It also allows me to easily collaborate with remote clients who can watch in real-time while I update their models. I am very impressed with the new features added with each software update. It shows that Onshape genuinely cares about their customers which you don't see from some of the larger CAD companies out there. For the price, you can't beat Onshape as a fully-featured parametric CAD tool. It has been (and continues to be) a big reason for my success in my design business.
What do you dislike about the product?
I'm still waiting for the photorealistic rendering capability to be added to Onshape. I think rendering should be integrated into the software (instead of using a secondary app). Not much to complain about though, I love it!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Collaboration. I am able to collaborate with clients in ways that simply weren't possible with other CAD tools. I save time with Onshape knowing my files are backed up and well organized without using additional software to accomplish this.
A huge benefit to Onshape is the price. Yes, there are cheaper CAD tools available, but none of them are as intuitive to use as Onshape. For most 3D modeling work, Onshape is on par or better than other CAD tools costing thousands more.
A huge benefit to Onshape is the price. Yes, there are cheaper CAD tools available, but none of them are as intuitive to use as Onshape. For most 3D modeling work, Onshape is on par or better than other CAD tools costing thousands more.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try it free first. You have nothing to lose. You may discover that will be a huge asset to your business!
Will not go back to traditional CAD
What do you like best about the product?
Low hardware cost to run the software. Great collaboration tool. It features a good set of design tools. I am able to run Onshape from just about any device and from any location with an internet connection.
What do you dislike about the product?
Still lacks some features of old more established CAD tools. Revision management still needs to be fine tuned a little more.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The biggest problem we are solving is cost savings. Cheaper hardware cost to run Onshape, No server needed for storage or backups, Cheaper software cost versus previous CAD software.
Being a small company and needing other to collaborate occasionally is incredibly easy in this software. Finally, being able to sit down anyplace and work has been a great time saver. No lugging a workstation class laptop back and forth. Pull out a thin Chromebook or a phone and go to work.
Being a small company and needing other to collaborate occasionally is incredibly easy in this software. Finally, being able to sit down anyplace and work has been a great time saver. No lugging a workstation class laptop back and forth. Pull out a thin Chromebook or a phone and go to work.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try it and be open minded about cloud storage.
Using Onshape has been a great experience.
What do you like best about the product?
Coming from the world of Solidworks, my experience with Onshape has been great. Onshape is an intuitive, easy-to-use and worry-free CAD software. Don’t need to have a dedicated engineering computer, don’t have to worry about PDM or loosing your data. The software is always up-to-date and continually improved, and documents are always available in any device. With Onshape I can spend more time designing components versus maintaining the software and the computer.
What do you dislike about the product?
All considered, there isn't much to dislike about Onshape.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The major benefit of Onshape is that we don't have to worry about PDM, software and system updates and configuration changes. We just design.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Compare it head-to-head and you'll make the switch.
ONSHAPE: Designed for Cloud Collaboration
What do you like best about the product?
Onshape is highly integrated with the cloud and the opportunities for real design collaboration. It makes it possible for small teams to do big things. It eliminates the admin overhead that burden many deign teams. It is ground-up designed thus it does not have legacy issues hindering it.
What do you dislike about the product?
I can't say there's anything I dislike. What I do find challenging is my own and my team's need to make the paradigm shift from the workflows we're used to in legacy file-based systems to Onshape's fundamentally difference approach.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Real-time collaboration at an affordable price. I see a big benefit of credibility building with customers who we can allow a window into the current progress of their projects. Also, I can quickly scale my team to meet project demands using highly skill people from anywhere in the world.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Start slowly and incrementally. Understand how Onshape can interface with other solftware.
Modern, powerful, intuitive and PLM built-in!
What do you like best about the product?
The innovation that I most appreciate is ability to work simultaneously on documents. This means, there is no more "write access" or "check-in/check-out" to manage. This feature alone changed the whole way we work: people work directly in the live CAD instead of making local copies, working on their own for a while (days, weeks?) and then merging back their work to the main CAD (with all the hassle & surprise that this process represent). The CAD is always up-to-date!
What do you dislike about the product?
I'd say that routing has to be improved. To depend on internet for CAD is somewhat of a downside.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CAD management is much better that before (revisions, up-to-date issues, sharing with collegues/suppliers, etc.). People can now work from the floor plant, form their home or at a supplier's office. Also, we see a reduction in cost (laptops VS CAD PCs, no PDM servers to implement, etc.).
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The best advice I can give you is to dedicate someone in your company to test Onshape full-time and share his experience with the other CAD users. You'll be amazed.
A Powerful Solution For Small and Startup Companies
What do you like best about the product?
OnShape, provides much of the power of SolidWorks and other packages, in an affordable platform that also allows for remote access, collaboration, customer interfacing and marketing.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some characteristics to be mindful of. For instance, performance is very dependant on file (document) organization. But once you understand that, it is performs quite well. Also, revision control could be more intuitive, but it is functional. Most issues I have encountered have been immediately resolved by support.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Onshape is very cost effective and has allowed us to design and document on the level of a large company, with a handful of people.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The product is ever evolving and improving and provides excellent engineering and design capability to small and even large companies. It also had add on applications for graphics, FEA, etc. , giving the customer a big bang for their dollar.
Managing Partner
What do you like best about the product?
It was an easy transition from Solidworks. The cloud based approach gives flexibility and collaboration becomes far simpler. Onshape has allowed themselves to take a fresh approach to many modeling tasks.
What do you dislike about the product?
Onshape is still young so its missing certain functionality. For our designs, the surface modeling tools still need improvement. We are also strong believers in "shown dimensions" being carried into drawings.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
At this point, the only hard benefit is that it is more cost effective than Solidworks. There are many soft benefits, like collaboration, that are much harder to quantify.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
give it a hard look. We cannot take advantage of some of what they do extremely well (integrated PDM functionality) that may make this a slam dunk for some companies. For us, the collaboration tools are the key improvement over Solidworks. They are improving the product at a rapid pace
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