Onshape Reviews

The version management is amazing and has been a life-saver a few times.

Being able to share the models with our clients has been an impactful factor in winning jobs.

The Onshape team has been very consistent in releasing relevant and useful updates and features, which is much appreciated.

The upcoming CAM function was promoted last year, with discussions on its release on March 2023. There hasn't been any updates ever since. As much as this could improve our manufacturing pipeline, not having it can have a negative impact. My expectation is to at least get a clear, updated schedule; so I can decide whether to get additional CAMWorks licenses or not.

Additionally, I like to see more support and documentation on connecting Onshape with the ERP systems, or using the API as it can greately affect our productivity.

Everyone has access to the drawings, regardless of their location and device. The view-only interface is enough for people without any CAD knowledge to use.

It's a fluid process to go from a rough pencil and paper concept to form definition in Onshape. Modeling parts together in a part studio with the aid of variables to tweek proportions is intuitive and suits my working style making it easy to roughly iterate designs and then drill down to details when the time comes. The workflow from parts to assemblies is intuitive with streamlined mate features making it quick and easy to build assemblies, exploded views and add standard parts. Finally drawings extend the same ease of use making it a straight forward process to detail designs to standard in a proffesional manner.

The cloud nature of the software makes it extradinarily easy to share work with colleagues or to collaborate. The added benifit of a subscription based software is that it is continuously being updated. Support from the folks at Onshape has been great. I've never needed technical support for any software issues but the team has reached out on occasion to make sure my experiences have been good.

All in all this makes Onshape my go to CAD software for all my furniture designing needs with plenty of scope for my own professional development.

I sometimes require the need to add aditional detail to a drawing that does not form part of the imported model geometry. As there are limited sketching tools inside a drawing it took me sometime to realise that I could just sketch it out in a part studio and then import that sketch into a drawing. This is the only aspect that wasn't so intuitive for me but makes sense in hindsight.

Onshape provides an accessible modern CAD solution for design iteration, form definition and detailing intended for manufacturing. Thus it provides me with the perfect platform for designing and spec-ing furniture intended for production.

We use Onshape since 2016. The best feature is that it's immediately available on any PC, updated and ready to go. It's well designed and continuously improved. It's easy to share design and work together. Drawings are vastly improving: I feel lost when I switch back to Autocad. It's powerful and works on any hardware, forget the expensive and clumsy workstations of the past.

Being cloud-based, it's totally dependant on your bandwidth but I've used it successfully even with a moblie phone connection

Try it as we did in 2016 before applying for a subscription.

With Onshape we started designing on day one without any significant upfront investment. The product gets better and better, its features are driven by the customers' requests.

Onshape has been invaluable for my freelance industrial design business since I made the switch a few years ago. I work with a variety of clients in many different categories from consumer electronics, medical, and toy and Onshape makes collaboration a seamless experience. Prior to Onshape I used Solidworks which felt institutionally bloated and Fusion 360 which always felt cobbled together. I really appreciate the plug-in with Keyshot and being able to rapidly update design variants has been incredibly useful.

Ongoing annual subscription pricing is constantly hanging over my head when renewal comes around. Having said that, of the subscription CAD modeling packages I've tried I believe it to be one of the best values around. The base license of F360 is more affordable but it's a wash once you start adding their additional plug-in packages (which you admittedly may or may not need). I do wish they had a month to month option or at the very least spread the cost of the annual subscription across monthly payments as you can with Adobe products, would really help with cashflow.

Onshape makes powerful CAD modeling tools accessible from anywhere with an internet connection (even a laptop tethered to a cellular connection!) As a freelance industrial designer I collaborate frequently with users outside of my company and Onshape makes the experience intuitive to anyone familiar working with Google Docs. They're also constantly churning out improvements every few weeks and listen very closely to their users.

Great cad with no need for expensive hardware. There are no software crashes and updates.

There is no offline version with it being SaaS. Would be great to in low/no interest areas

We completed all of our mechanical design, using Onshape. We do not have a initial cost for hardware does great benefit for cash flow.

The fact that we do not have to worry about maintaining software or backing up our projects, as well as the ease with which we can collaborate internally and with our customers.

It would be great to have more scan-based design (reverse engineering) functionality.

Mostly we optimize designs to suit additive manufacturing.

I have been using Onshape on a daily basis and really like the web based nature. The sharing capability and the built in PDM work very well. I never had a crash and you always can go back into history and roll back if needed. The subscription price as of now is still reasonable for what you get. Well thought out releases of new features and funtionality every 3 or 4 weeks. Onshape seems to listen to their customers when it comes to needed features and funtionality.

It took a long time for Onshape to add CAM capabilities (still in Beta), ultimately designs need to be manufactured.

I have no problem paying for goods and services however subscription based software can become convoluted (terms & conditions) and costly if you were to grow a company and need more seats.

From what I read on the forum it still lags on some features for other specific industries, wire routing, sheet metal etc.

We design products and molds for themoforming and organic surfaces that are 3D printed. We were able to share designs in an efficient manner with our customers an vendors.

The easy task for review and sharing during design

Nothing at the moment but have not used the full potential of ONSHAPE yet

The easy use compared with Solidworks or CATIA v5 and no need for expensive computer power

Creating a design and anyone I want can make a review of the product without having a lot of different software tools.

No bulky local installation and no special workstations required

Integrated parts management, which was previously only possible with complicated PDM systems

Mature versioning and branching

Sophisticated configuration functionality for all possible scenarios and features

The ability to model all related parts within a single part studio - thus safe dimensional changes based on a few basic sketches

Simple sharing of designs and intermediate statuses within the team

Integrated rendering capability (albeit somewhat cryptic compared to specialized external apps, but still useful for quick presentations)

Very simple and well thought-out module for creating drawings

Overall, straight forward work with a fun factor and quick results and successes

Good community that actively participates in development in the form of programmed feature scripts for special cases (welding, cable routing, etc.) that can be loaded into the project

Monthly reports on new features and improvements (what's new after login)

I just love it, Onshape makes me addicted!

Still no possibility to place small labels, logos or simple textures on partial surfaces within an assembly (such as stickers in Solidworks). If you want to see something like this, you either have to use the Render Studio or imprint the labeling correctly into the geometry...

Prompt development of prototypes

Safe handling of subsequent modifications and versions

Creating info drawings for our webshop customers

Can be used on almost any hardware.

There is nothing that I have not been able to model in Onshape since i started using it in 2016.

It is really intuitive.

There should be a setting to make the "name of a part that is seen in an assembly" default to the "name of the part" and not "part1"

It should prevent duplicate names in a document.

Allows robust control of your product which prevents problems at the build phase