What do you like best about the product?

The intuitive functionality is supported by a comprehensive library of courses which allowed me to teach myself CAD from scratch and design complex prototype parts ready for 3D printing and injection moulding. This is truely a program suitable for experts without the barriers for non-experts to develop their skills and produce fantastic results.

What do you dislike about the product?

Occasionally I have had to go back into the training courses a couple of times to get my head round a couple of the more complex functions - but I think that is to be expected when you have such a broad and complex software package.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allowed me to access a high quality CAD package from my Chromebook - with which most packages are not compatible. I could design highly complex parts, without much experience of CAD and no formal training and was also able to generate patent drawings using the system. It has been crucial for both designing parts and communicating designs to manufacturers and industrial partners.

What do you like best about the product?

OnShape's ease of use compared to other platforms such as SolidWorks makes it extremely easy to design ideas quickly. Furthermore, because it is cloud based, it means I can access my files and design from any computer, useful when moving around campus a lot.

What do you dislike about the product?

Despite its usefulness, it does lack some features such as uploading coordinates to draw as a spline. Although these are advanced features and probably possible through 3rd party tools, there is a significant learning curve to get used to this.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

OnShape is helping me create quick and easy designs for my university course.

What do you like best about the product?

It is as easy to use as other CAD tools, but as it is online, its really easy to access all designs anywhere. Collaboration tools are also amazing and data management, while not perfect, is really enogh to do a lot.

What do you dislike about the product?

It improved a lot over the years. The only dislike now is performance wise on large assemblies. Browsers consume too much ram.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use it to design machines.

What do you like best about the product?

I use this program daily, and it has changed the game for us in ways I never would have expected.

It's in the browser - everything is a link, making sharing, discussing, collaborating with everyone within your company very natural.
View only access is free, meaning your support team can access your CAD directly, securely, with no extra licenses. This reduces the friction, and also reduces how much docuemntation we need to maintain to fully enable our support to solve issues on their own.

Admin controls are clear, concise, easy to use, and it is built so you can try something, change your mind, and adapt the tool to your company's needs, instead of forcing certain early decisions that lock you into a sub-optimal decision forever (other programs tend to do this a lot). This makes implementation easy.

It's stable - I've never lost more than a second of work history due to power outages, computer issues, or internet issues.
It's hung a few times in the last year (infrequent), but a quick refresh on the browser, and I'm right back to where I was.
Customer support is included, and they don't discern between bugs and issues vs 'how to use' questions. They just want to help, and are extremely responsive.

Pricing is transparent, and there are no hidden 'gotchas.'

Export naming conventions combined with their google drive integrations are extremely powerful, and have enabled a whole suite of low-code automations that have enabled us to effectively automated 90% of the work to translate to an ERP, and the options to build more direct interfaces exist for the long term.

They are constantly releasing new and useful features, and are attentive to feature requests. A concern of mine was once they were acquired by PTC, innovation would slow or stop, but they certainly have shown no signs of slowing down. I've had feature requests get implemented within two weeks (this was definitely an exception, but was impressive none the less).

Overall, it's pretty fast. It's faster than Solidworks for most things, and does well with large assemblies, but will still get bogged down with very large assemblies.
We will have 25 million triangle modesl / 5,000 bodies, and will get some slow down, but it still performs significantly better than Solidworks did for the same size assemblies. Not as fast for huge assemblies as CREO or CATIA, but for the cost, ease of use, implementation, and what we actually use it for, it knocks everything else out of the water.

What do you dislike about the product?

Large assembly drawings can be a bit slow.
Items are useful, but would be a game changer if they could be edited by spreadsheets. (You can upload items via spreadsheet which is great, but not edit as of when I'm writing this).

Neither of these are deal breakers.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Design, sharing, collaboration, and product data management.

What do you like best about the product?

Ability to run a powerful CAD software from not so powerful computers

What do you dislike about the product?

It throttles down because my poor internet connection :(

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Making it easy for people in my organization to get design approvals. Making it easy to communicate with clients using onshape.

What do you like best about the product?

Being able to navigate different parts and assemblys on different browser tabs is so handy for complex builds.
It also has really cleaver sheet metal creation functionality.
Finally being able to talk to real humans whenever I have a problem is so valuable.
Also, as it is cloud based I dont need a really powerfull computer to use the software, it all happens online.

What do you dislike about the product?

When working on a part or assembly, i dont like the tabs along the bottom. They either need to be able to be hidden or automatically sorted into alfabetical order.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's enabling us to create really good designs for shet metal folded parts.

What do you like best about the product?

Easy shortcuts, nice UI. very user friendly and ease of use. loads of tutorials on how to use it. many features and functions.

What do you dislike about the product?

Its cloud based, never bothered me too much but it would be useful to have a non cloud based version.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Multiple people can work on one document easily

What do you like best about the product?

Colaboration
Configuring
Render
Folders in asemblyes

What do you dislike about the product?

Rounds are not on par with Creo.
Not a big fan of mating in asembly, not so good at renaming features

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is a tool and any of the oters would also do the job

What do you like best about the product?

The ease of working together on a single document. It is simple to share work with outside vendors too. Product support has been great; I can email Kyle about any of my questions. Implementing new ideas is a breeze. The feature set keeps improving, especially from feedback.

What do you dislike about the product?

The main downside is the speed of onshape. Since it is in the cloud, the performance is not as snappy as a local CAD system like solidworks. This is mainly seen in assemblies. The second downside is part of its feature: Documents. Documents can get bogged down very quickly with part studios and assemblies and derived parts.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Onshape allows us as a team to work together on the same project and on the same documents. This just can't be done on other CAD programs. We are also able to leverage Featurescripts to make custom features for Onshape and to leverage configurations to make out designs more robust

What do you like best about the product?

Powerful data base driven CAD program that is easy and (most importatnly) efficient to use. With near monthly updates the funcationlity that is missing is quickly disappearing and with a super responsive customer support there are very few hurdles that don't have solution.

What do you dislike about the product?

Has some missing functionality and some features are still in their infancy.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

a walled garden approach to cad to ensure all files are managed and captured. Also the ease of use for design is great, making new parts or spinning off old design into new design is so quick.