Onshape by PTC
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Onshape is great for 9/10 applications!
What do you like best about the product?
I love the cloud-based system. Being able to access Onshape from any computer is an excellent feature.
What do you dislike about the product?
When working with complex geometries, such as organic bone models, sometimes the program runs slower than you'd like. However, this can be greatly reduced by reducing the number of facets on each model, which is not always an option for high resolution, clinical translation.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use on shape to save us time and effort in designing cheap components (wedges, marker clusters), rapid prototyping of surgical cutting guides, and even developing floorplan models!
OnShape has a ton of great features and is especially good for sharing and collaboration.
What do you like best about the product?
The best things about Onshape is that you can access easily on the web wherever you are and work efficiently as long as you have a good internet connection.
What do you dislike about the product?
The one drawback is that it is not the best at creating 2D drawings from the 3D models.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Really helps with design and layout and determining how everything will fit together before we have it made.
The future is bright with Onshape
What do you like best about the product?
Cloud-based CAD is a big improvement over traditional platforms like Solidworks. Onshape is optimized to support multiple users working together seamlessly both in real-time and asynchronous.
Already a great CAD platform with a track record of continuous improvement. Their biweekly releases continue to improve the user experience and are free, of course. They have great customer service and genuinely seem to be invested in making their users happy by incorporating their feedback.
They have built on the established platforms with very convenient features like mates, which define the relationship between parts with a single mate instead of 2-3.
Already a great CAD platform with a track record of continuous improvement. Their biweekly releases continue to improve the user experience and are free, of course. They have great customer service and genuinely seem to be invested in making their users happy by incorporating their feedback.
They have built on the established platforms with very convenient features like mates, which define the relationship between parts with a single mate instead of 2-3.
What do you dislike about the product?
Power users of old-school CAD platforms with miss the seemingly endless feature customization. Drawings are the main area where I miss some features from Solidworks.
Documents with a lot of features and parts can be slow to load, so it is important to be mindful when creating and organizing documents. Internet speed is definitely important for reload times.
Licenses have to be assigned to specific users (they are not floating). This can be annoying when licenses are limited, but can be fixed by reassigning licenses whenever needed.
Documents with a lot of features and parts can be slow to load, so it is important to be mindful when creating and organizing documents. Internet speed is definitely important for reload times.
Licenses have to be assigned to specific users (they are not floating). This can be annoying when licenses are limited, but can be fixed by reassigning licenses whenever needed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Part studios allow a greatly improved experience in multi-part design in a single document. Links between parts in complex assemblies are very easy to create through skeleton sketches, variables, in-context design, etc.
Sharing documents with internal teammates who don't have an Onshape license is very useful. The view only mode is more than sufficient for getting feedback from non-users. This is also useful for sharing and getting feedback from suppliers and machine shops.
Sharing documents with internal teammates who don't have an Onshape license is very useful. The view only mode is more than sufficient for getting feedback from non-users. This is also useful for sharing and getting feedback from suppliers and machine shops.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Give it a try! It's free to use, as long as you are okay with your files being public. It will be a change for grizzled CAD traditionalists but they will eventually appreciate its benefits. Young designers love it!
Austin's Review
What do you like best about the product?
I like that i dont need a powerful computer to 3D model and that I have access to all my documents on any computer connected to the internet. i really love the sheet metal tools that onshape has and continued to develope.
What do you dislike about the product?
On very complex assemblies you start to see the limitations of cloud based cad. Documents become sluggish and load times are longer. Onshape support has been helpful in providing insights to improve our workflows. I also would like to recommend that native rendering and textures be added to onshape.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use onshape for work and personal design. It really helps to visualize a design fully and definitely is helpful to our manufacturing team. The main benefit of onshape is that we are able to easily and quickly collaborate as a team to complete projects and fully flush out a design.
Seamless Integration
What do you like best about the product?
Onshape's integrated PDM features, intuitive assembly mating and collaborative work features are fantastic
What do you dislike about the product?
Still a few features missing, but no deal-breakers. Things like fasteners of any length (or commonly available lengths) rather than just ISO/DIN lengths would be great.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Assemblies in Onshape are robust which solves its own problems. When things do break, there is a complete history to roll back to any point to retrieve or examine things.
Very intuitive and user-friendly interface. Solidworks users will especially adapt very quickly.
What do you like best about the product?
Intuitive features and tools layout, multi-user enterprise collaborative functionality, cloud-based software increases accessibility to files. Copy workspace tool, I use it every day.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Drawings segment still needs some improvement, there are still a few quirks i'd like to see improved. Mainly concerning section views, break views, and aux views. They do not label or align properly. Detail views also are not fully supported with break views.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Modular design using common parts and assemblies across the product library. Onshape enables seamless networking between all parts within the enterprise.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Be sure to check your PC hardware specs are at optimum capacity, in order to fully utilize Onshape assembly performance. Large complex assemblies can still lag pretty significantly. Make use of simplified 3D models when you can (omit any internal non-critical features in the design)
Most user friendly and capable CAD program on the market today!
What do you like best about the product?
I'm also a devoted Solidworks user and given that Onshape was built by the original founders - it allowed them to step away from the inherent legacy support required by Solidworks and gave them an open book to start from scratch and build from what they learned along the way.
What do you dislike about the product?
The obvious is if you have no internet connection or a slow internet connection you're screwed. There is a huge investment required for building web + desktop + mobile suites of products so it would be really nice to have the ability to download your document (part studios, drawings, assemblies, and anything else) into a tablet or mobile app (Onshape already has the mobile versions) that you can just carry around with you.
Secondly I wish they had better support for flat patterns (svg, dxf) for use on CNC machines.
Secondly I wish they had better support for flat patterns (svg, dxf) for use on CNC machines.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I build things for my own personal use, for my mining company, and small one-off projects. I can design, look at, review, and then build something in literally a fraction of the time. Using modern day equipment I can cut, fit, and fabricate and it's right from the start.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I see many users that use products like SketchUp, Fusion360, and Illustrator to do CAD-like work that OnShape just excels at. Onshape should have a switcher campaign.
Cloud Based Design Software
What do you like best about the product?
So far I am very happy with the fact that all files are handled through the cloud allowing for very minimal computing requirements. Also based on the file structure, it is a very interesting approach to no longer have to manage actual "files" in the traditional sense. This seamless integration of how the documents are managed will allow our company to scale up on the design side of our work very easily.
What do you dislike about the product?
One of the main dislikes is coming from a more complete design platform of Solidworks, there are some key missing features such as a weldment/frame generator package. Currently any structural or piping runs need to be manually generated or done through the use of a custom script.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
One of our key issues we have is that we are relying on google drive to handle the sharing and storage of our design files. This has resulted in problems where files can become corrupted or slowed down to the how the files are backed up and synced. Sharing of files can take hours and has resulted in certain users to work locally and upload when required to backup causing collaboration issues. With the collaboration features and the built in ERP system of Onshape, this has overnight changed how work can be thought of and handled.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Ensure that the abilities of Onshape suit what you try to design. Even though it is a very well though out design platform, there are some key features that could be deal breakers and cause more issues than benefits depending on your needs. The pace of updates is impressive and nearly invisible in the sense that no upgrade files and installs are required so the growth of this platform is exciting to be a part of.
Love Onshape; CAD Gamechanger
What do you like best about the product?
Collaboration becomes so much easier with Onshape. Version management within Onshape also feels so much smoother than that of other CAD systems.
What do you dislike about the product?
Drawing tools are still a bit rudimentary. Sometimes there are some GD&T maneuvers that cannot work out with Onshape, so I end up using Notes as a workaround. I really wish external collaboration tools for Enterprise users was more advanced. With SSO, I believe our organization cannot share our CAD with external collaborators.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Primarily collaboration issues that existed with other CAD systems, such as PDM/SolidWorks.
Onshape is the next generation of CAD sofware!
What do you like best about the product?
Possibility to cad from everywhere phone table computer
What do you dislike about the product?
Still some feature that need to be added . Like weldment.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Collaborative design is way better. Also no need for a super highend computer. Always new updates
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Keep listening your client for new features!
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