Onshape by PTC
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Modern cad for a modern world
What do you like best about the product?
Great design philosphy, ability to use tools in multiple ways depending on complexity of project. Collaboration crucial and easy, vastly superior to all other cad solutions.
What do you dislike about the product?
No offline access mode, which can make projects challenging in limited internet scenarios. Would be great if we could just access a model loaded with conneciton present, not to edit but to take measurements and view?
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Solves collaboration on all projects, across mechanical and electrical disciplines within our team. Never had a crash or lost file due file loss - and the git-style version management, branching, etc. is incredible!
Why I like Onshape
What do you like best about the product?
Onshape is easy to use, always available and offers a great universe of 3rd party tools that use the data for advanced purposes.
A special plus of Onshape is its tremendous customer focus. All questions (also beginner questions) are answered fast and precisely and suggestions are rated and prioritized for development.
A special plus of Onshape is its tremendous customer focus. All questions (also beginner questions) are answered fast and precisely and suggestions are rated and prioritized for development.
What do you dislike about the product?
The main problem is data storage. If for any reason (I cannot foresee but that might happen) I would loose access to the platform, all my work would be gone. It is possible to download data, but the whole context is gone. To have a function or at least a practice how to download all relevant data of a model would be helpful.
Another thing I am ambiguous about is the programming language. The great thing is that the code of onshape itself is published and can be used for personal extension. The downside is that the programming language is quite complex and that there is yet few and superficial training material. But like many other training material that I saw in the past 8 years, this tends to get better.
Another thing I am ambiguous about is the programming language. The great thing is that the code of onshape itself is published and can be used for personal extension. The downside is that the programming language is quite complex and that there is yet few and superficial training material. But like many other training material that I saw in the past 8 years, this tends to get better.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I can focus on designing and don't have to worry about system administration and maintenance.
And I get fantastic support if ever I have questions.
Another great benefit are the many extension functions like Simulation, Rendering etc that make the tool more then just a CAD system.
And I get fantastic support if ever I have questions.
Another great benefit are the many extension functions like Simulation, Rendering etc that make the tool more then just a CAD system.
Great Online CAD software with constant Improvements & Updates
What do you like best about the product?
With the online interface I can use Onshape anywhere. They're always improving and adding new features that are on par with the industry as a whole. Best of all each step taken is saved along the way making it easy to go back ontop of never having to worry about hitting the save button again - it's seamless and doesn't slow down the process.
What do you dislike about the product?
Being new to the industry not all usual features are available, but with the constant updates it is only a matter of time. The sketching and curve/surface construction experience is one of the major shortfalls I have found in my work.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Onshape provides the primary Mechanical CAD tool for our business. It supplies us with the ability to work together as a team to design, review, and export our products.
The most likely future of CAD
What do you like best about the product?
I like the branching and merging system, which drastically improves the process of iterating on a design. Traditional CAD assumes designed to progress in a linear fashion. In reality, there are tons of dead ends and circling back to do. Onshape makes that a breeze with minimal overhead.
What do you dislike about the product?
Any word processing is really bad. From embossed text to notes in your drawing. You might as well be using Notepad with 8 fonts only. Importing files like STPs and .DWG is also limited compared to competitors. Sure it can take the file type but the results are not great with the lack of controls for repairing your model.
Teaching new employees is also an unforeseen struggle. Every engineer thinks they can learn a new CAD system in a month but come close to there level of competence with a file-based system. They struggle most to get familiar with the Database format and the assembly mates. Onshape needs to develop a bigger presence at the University level.
Teaching new employees is also an unforeseen struggle. Every engineer thinks they can learn a new CAD system in a month but come close to there level of competence with a file-based system. They struggle most to get familiar with the Database format and the assembly mates. Onshape needs to develop a bigger presence at the University level.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The overhead for managing multiple users' hardware and software is basically zero. I don't need to ever think about setting up a PDM sever and trying to sink installed versions of CAD software.
Onshape - Progressive CAD
What do you like best about the product?
I like that Onshape is cloud-based. To me, it is CAD with a modern mindset. It is a dynamic environment with top-class support and frequent updates, a large user support group and great support.
What do you dislike about the product?
Onshape is developing all the time. It may not have all the features of long-established CAD, but it is fast catching up and doing the old better than the traditional systems.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Onshape suits my workflow. I often develop concepts in freeform modelling and then turn to Onshape as a fully parametric system. Onshape allows me to animate designs easily and do stress analysis on the same model. I also generate all my detailed drawings in Onshape.
The Best Collaborative CAD software available
What do you like best about the product?
Onshape is the best software for collaborative design projects. It has many features built in such as PDM that are add-ons with some of the other CAD options.
What do you dislike about the product?
Onshape is a newer software package and is still developing some aspects to rival the best softwares on th market.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Onshape has allowed me to keep software cost very low while providing an advantage over other mainstream CAD softwares. I do not need windows based ANYTHING!
Simple, effective, cloud based
What do you like best about the product?
The lerning modules were the most helpful. I really appreciated the ability to re-watch the training videos at my own pace. The cloud based system was also a standout characteristic- made it easier to run on my devices
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the wording for the training modules was a little hard to understand, this led to me trying different approaches to complete the course. Similarly, denoting which language is OnShape specific would help when communicating with CAD professionals what language to use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Collaborating with different teams on the same project - keeping version histories organized - it has enabled my team to communicate with team members in another country/department.
Onshape, on top of 3D modeling and design!
What do you like best about the product?
Completely cloud based platform, Improvements and product updates every 3 weeks, great customer support
What do you dislike about the product?
Missing some options I've enjoyed from other CAD packages.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our company has transistioned to Onshape because of its all in the cloud. No manual installs and can be accessed from almost any device anyhwere with internet.
Great compatibility for my team
What do you like best about the product?
One of the things I like more about onshape is tha fact that everything is done online. It is very helpful when looking at or editing files on the fly, and working with my team.
What do you dislike about the product?
Im not sure I would say there is something I truly dislike about OnShape, but if I were to be nitpicky, default commands on the mac interface are a little bit more difficult than they are on a windows machine.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Onshape is solving the issue of being unable to collaborate with other team members on the fly, it is incredible how muliple of us can work on a single file at once and see it update in real time.
Onshape is great to do collaborative design, and is great to see its improving in the drawing space
What do you like best about the product?
The collaborative space it creates. Its great to have several engineers working in the same document simultaneously. Also the git-like development with branches, version and merges
What do you dislike about the product?
Loading times, perfomance issues and not being able to merge drawings
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Collaborative environment to iterate in a fast pace. We work following Agile methodologies and using them for hardware desing. Without cloud based software we wont be able to do this
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