Dock Designer vs. Onshape

Dock Designer

Onshape

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Dock Designer	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Dock Designer integrates product data, engineering rules, and pricing into a Browser-Based Interface accessible to internal teams, dealers, and customers: the solution enables 2D Design, 3D Visualization, and the generation of an accurate Bill of Materials (BOM), Quote, and Installation Guide. The vendor states that users have reduced Quoting Latency through automated Configuration Constraints that identify invalid configurations prior to production.	N/A
Onshape	Score 6.5 out of 10	N/A	Onshape is a cloud-native product development platform with integrated CAD, data management and analytics. Onshape aims to accelerate time to market and improve innovation by: 1) Access: Unlike file-based CAD which is on-premise only, Onshape enables remote access for designers and engineers from anywhere, and on any internet-connected device -including tablets and smart phones. 2) Collaboration: Onshape aims to eliminate the version control problems and blocking of file-based…	$1,500 per year per user

Pricing

Dock Designer

Onshape

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Standard: 1,500
per year per user
Professional: 2,500
per year per user
Enterprise: Contact sales team
per year per user

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Dock Designer	Onshape
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Required

No setup fee

Additional Details

Implementation cost depends on customer needs and varies.

No dedicated hardware is required. Works on all web-connected devices including tablet, Chromebook, iPhone, Android.

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Community Pulse
	Dock Designer	Onshape
Considered Both Products	Dock Designer No answer on this topic	Onshape Majd Sukkarieh CAD/CAM Specialist Chose Onshape Onshape currently has more value for our size of business. Incentivized Helpful? Christopher Schaefer Product Development Engineer Chose Onshape While a fair likeness in features and use, OnShape has stronger cloud options and baked-in PDM. Incentivized Helpful? SH Sam Holland Product Design Engineer Chose Onshape Better: Similar user interface and control scheme. Much better multi-body modeling. Real-time flattened sheet metal views. Faster to create robust models due to features like mate connectors and allowing fillets to work on multiple bodies. Doesn't need an expensive … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Onshape We chose Onshape for its ease of use and ultimately its mobility. Our mobile team wanted to be able to do work anywhere with a solid internet connection, instead of having to rely on bulky and tethered desktop machines or high powered laptops. All of Autodesk's products, while … Incentivized Helpful? Glendon Kuhns General Manager Chose Onshape Onshape does not have complete feature parity with SOLIDWORKS. But neither does SOLIDWORKS have all the features Onshape has. The reasons we went with Onshape was the ability to collaborate and the lack of need for file management. There is also no need for an initial purchase. … Incentivized Helpful? Aubrey Cousin Metal Manufacture Engineer, CNC Programmer Chose Onshape Onshape is quickly becoming the CAD software I recommend over any other. SolidWorks and Inventor are feature rich and leaders in the industry, however, Onshape is beginning to match them with constant updates and is already as feature rich as the two mentioned. Incentivized Helpful? Phil Brace design leader Chose Onshape For us, we made the permanent switch from SOLIDWORKS to Onshape. SOLIDWORKS is a great product that we used for many years, but the file management and the transfer of large files were often hampering our progress. Onshape is just a little more agile for us! Incentivized Helpful? Bob Householder Director of Engineering Chose Onshape Onshape is better than Solidworks for online / collaboration. Solidworks is better for the feature set and integration with other tools. Rhino3D is better at surfacing and workflow with my optical design programs. I have not used Fusion360 except for evaluating in general so I … Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Eppers Lead Mechanical Engineer Chose Onshape I have used Solidworks for over four years, and the vault system is time intensive for control of design history, and revision management. I have used Pro-E for over four years, and this has the capability but is not user-friendly. Not needing high-end computers is another … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Onshape OnShape was lower cost, with a reasonably comparable set of tools to Inventor and SolidWorks. The cost and ease of assimilation (ability to change mouse and keyboard shortcuts to Solidworks or Inventor controls) made the choice easier. Incentivized Helpful? Matthew Bush Co-Founder and COO Chose Onshape When we started the business we knew we wanted to use Macs for our day to day computer as we do a lot of programming both robot software as well as mobile apps and embedded firmware. This choice limited the number of selections we could look at as companies such as Solidworks … Incentivized Helpful? Brian Falther Founder, Systems Engineering Chose Onshape We chose Onshape for a couple of reasons - the first is pricing. We were looking for a light-weight program that packs a heavyweight punch. The ability to access from any computer (Mac or PC) from anywhere is ultimately what sealed the deal for us. For our needs, there wasn't … Incentivized Helpful? Oral Tosun Business Owner Chose Onshape OnShape is a solid type design tool. Besides that, it provides working on the cloud environment. Incentivized Helpful? Christopher DeAngelis Engineer Chose Onshape OnShape is more powerful, user friendly, and versatile than these alternatives. Incentivized Helpful? Steven Whitacre Applications Engineer Chose Onshape OnShape is based in the cloud, which comes with all the benefits one would expect vs. desktop based software. The two main things that lead me to select OnShape were cost and ease of adding new users/working as a team. Incentivized Helpful? Evan Reese Co-Owner / Industrial Designer Chose Onshape I've kind of already touched on this, but here's another take: Onshape vs. Solidworks - Onshape is much cheaper, more usable, and does certain things much much better. It also removes many pain points I feel with Solidworks (SW). However, SW has decades of development and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Onshape Onshape is in a different league than sketchup and is multiple times more powerful Incentivized Helpful? Mike Jacob Fischthal Founder / CEO Chose Onshape Ease of use, the fact that it's in the cloud (so fast and always accessible) and intuitive design without clutter. TinkerCAD is only for beginners, Blender is for design and art, fusion 360 is cluttered and confusing, and SolidWorks is pretty close to onshape but its cost and … Incentivized Helpful? Marshall Wentworth Product Development Engineer Chose Onshape Onshape wins out by far when it comes to the cloud and syncing aspect. I've had a lot of issues with SW epdm or trying to use Dropbox, or email, and anything that isn't stupidly easy to use is going to get used incorrectly. Onshape developed all of that right in, and it works … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Onshape I've used Solidworks for Cad and it is very heavy/intense software. Onshape is lightweight and easy to use. Solidworks has more add-ons like simulation and stress analysis which Onshape doesn't. Incentivized Helpful? Dave Seeman Co-Owner / Mechanical Design Engineer Chose Onshape We also use Fusion 360 which is more appropriate for certain projects. We were all SolidWorks users, and we still use it from time to time as well. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Onshape The main reason that I selected Onshape over Solidworks is that it is significantly cheaper. Additionally, with the cloud-based updates, they are able to add functionality more quickly through updates, so in the long term I think their functionality will outpace that of … Incentivized Helpful? Steven Silva Co-Owner Chose Onshape Very easy to pick up coming from a SolidWorks background. Clearly it doesn't have quite as much high end functionality, but for basic needs it's just as good. Incentivized Helpful? R. Dirk Price Mechanical Engineer Chose Onshape Onshape is a good competitor against other CAD systems. Solidworks and Solidedge still have more features than Onshape, but the gap is shrinking every 3 weeks. There are still some drawing features that have kept my supervisor from switching completely to Onshape himself, but … Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	Dock Designer	Onshape
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	9.3 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.6 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.3 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Dock Designer	Onshape
Likelihood to Recommend	No answers on this topic	Onshape shall be used by organizations where cost is a major factor as the license is relatively competitive than the competition. Where Onshape , excels the most is the ability to be operational on any device with internet connection and webbrowser. Onshape doesn't require your hardware to be beefed with Graphic cards (if added better). Where onshape can be better. If they are able to include simulation packages bundled like SOLIDWORKS. Incentivized Gaurav Chakraborty R&D Engineer Read full review
Pros	No answers on this topic	Cloud-based infrastructure and collaboration is a primary benefit. The available documentation is extremely thorough. The ability to integrate with other software for simulation, renderings, etc. is fantastic. Not having to save and being able to clearly see versions and change history is excellent. Incentivized Keegan Schoch Co-Founder/Engineer Read full review
Cons	No answers on this topic	I'm a Pro-user but I would like to have the possibility to have a pay-as-use option in some form. Now it is all or nothing (the public sharing of models - and model rights!) is not an option for many not-for-profit projects. On-site hosting might help to sell the cloud concept to the more paranoid management. Basic CAM generation would be awesome Nonparametric modeling in some form or making it easier to use assemblies for those use cases where you want to model some parts and just play around moving things when you are exploring different configurations. Doing Industrial Design type sketching and experimenting is not really a strong point on Onshape Incentivized KN Kustaa Nyholm Research Manager Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	Familiarity and ability to work from any location. Also easy to cooperate with potential customers, existing customers, systems users, and fabricating shops. Most of the standard designs are now in On Shape and I would like to continue using it. It is easier to run versions to clarify imrovements to the previous designs Incentivized Zino Altman President Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	Onshape is great software and I have no trouble recommending it to CAD users and companies that need to do design work Incentivized Glendon Kuhns General Manager Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Been fairly standard experience with support team. Issues have always been addressed, but is understandably focused on business side applications which typically has different issues than education applications. I have very few IT issues with the design side of the software, my issues are more often with the control of users and access Incentivized AD Andrew Defever Teacher Read full review
Online Training	No answers on this topic	I might be biased by coming from using three different CAD softwares in the past, so I already understood many modeling concepts, but the training OS offers is really good. Videos are clear, they explain operations in good detail and besides that OS has a really good help system that explains even more how every tool works. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Implementation Rating	No answers on this topic	Onshape is revolutionary. Its advantage is that it can be used without having to download it. You are free to work wherever you want. This means that even if you take a vacation or attend a family event, your work will not be interrupted. You can still bring your work and complete it quickly. Incentivized Aristotle Infante Innovation Mechanics Leader Read full review
Alternatives Considered	No answers on this topic	I have used SOLIDWORKS for over four years, and the vault system is time intensive for control of design history, and revision management. I have used Pro-E for over four years, and this has the capability but is not user-friendly. Not needing high-end computers is another great reason to choose Onshape Incentivized Kevin Eppers Lead Mechanical Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	No answers on this topic	Poindexter By Design provides on demand mechanical engineering services and Onshape is directly responsible for a large portion of our customer base because of how easy it is to share and collaborate design projects. In most cases, we are literally up and running on new projects within an hour directly due to Onshape. It is inevitable that a project will go through some level of scope creep. Poindexter By Design had a project with a 4-week deadline. Initially, we scheduled two engineers on the project but when the project's scope creep set in and the original deadline didn't change, we were very quickly and easily able to bring on a 3rd Poindexter By Design engineer on the project to handle the scope creep and still meet the deadline. Onshape gives our company the ability to very quickly increase our capacity on design projects with little to no effort and to us, this is priceless. Incentivized Mike Hudzik Senior Staff Engineer Read full review
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