What do you like best about the product?

I really love using OnShape for 2D and 3D modeling. I like having the ability to use OnShape for more than just a CAD design software. The 2D sketch features give me the opportunity to create DXF and DWG drawings for 2D CAD programing. The 3D features in OnShape are very intuitive and and easy to learn if you're new to OnShape.

What do you dislike about the product?

Sometimes OnShape is too smart for its own good and it tries to guess which feature face you are trying to select. It is sometimes difficult to select 3D faces that are intricate.

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

We needed user friendly software that allowed us to create 3D and 2D models as well as detailed Machine Drawings for our suppliers.

What do you like best about the product?

versioning: history of all the changes and possibilities to go back on previoius versions of a part are keys for a clean product design

What do you dislike about the product?

drawings are sometimes awfull to work with. the drawing module is really late in ter of performance compared to opther CAD softwares

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

easy access on protected links for CAD sharing with organisation members
a lot of support when I have issues and bugs (also means I have a lot more issues and bugs than on other softwares, but they are solved quickly)

What do you like best about the product?

It is very stable, enables easy collaboration with collegues, has a good learning center and has regular additions of usable features.
The file system and revision control is also great.
Their customer support is also very helpful when we have had needed a workaround for missing features.

We switched from Solidworks and have found it very easy to switch. We have used it daily for about a year with two licenses.

What do you dislike about the product?

There's still a few features missing, such as some symbols used for complete tolerancing according to ISO standards. Their sheet metal features also have some annoying limitations in adding fillets near bends.

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

It allows us to design our products and make the drawings needed to get things manufactured.

What do you like best about the product?

One of the best things is that you are always using the most up-to-date version. You never need to install a new version. Everyone is using the same version globally.
Being able to colaborate over distance is a major plus as I work remotely but can still work on things that the people in the shop are looking at and referencing.
Customer support is A+! I have used other CAD systems that wanted to charge me hourly tech support to solve issues with the program. Onshape is very quick to respond to any emails sent and either show what I've missed or offer a solution to the problem. Also, several of the things that I have mentioned as 'nice to have' features have been implemented in updates so it is very encouraging to have the product growing in response to user feedback.

What do you dislike about the product?

There are still some things that Onshape doesn't have that other CAD programs have had but every program seems to have something that others don't and it appears to just be a matter of time before Onshape will have added all the shortcuts that I was used to in other programs.
The Android version of Onshape is a bit underwelming but the fact that I can show things on my phone is pretty great!

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

Onshape is the primary CAD program that my company uses. It allows for easy collaboration between remote employees and head office. As well as multiple users working on the same projects.

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.