3D Systems headquartered in Rock Hill offers the Geomagic product design suite, supporting 3D modeling and prototyping of manufactured products for a variety of industries.
$199
One Time Fee
Onshape
Score 9.1 out of 10
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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
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Geomagic
Onshape
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Personal
$199.00
One Time Fee
Expert
$1,999.00
One Time Fee
Standard
1,500
per year per user
Professional
2,500
per year per user
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Onshape
Free Trial
No
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
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No dedicated hardware is required. Works on all web-connected devices including tablet, Chromebook, iPhone, Android.
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.
For the computer-aided design, I would not recommend Geomagic, and would prefer AutoCAD. In the case of other designs, the GeoMagic is good with the sheet metal design. I would work with this in the future for sure. The working UI is good but needs improvement and has lots of features that can be improved.
Onshape has been great as a learning platform for students as they are typically using fairly basic functions and smaller projects. As projects get more complicated or documents contain more parts or larger assemblies the program does use more bandwidth and processing power, which has let to some lag and loading issues.
Dimensioning a hole feature in a drawing when there are multiple holes, the hole count does not parametrically update. For example, when there are 3x of the same hole, Onshape forces you to manually type in 3x instead of parametrically populating the hole count. This gets very dangerous if say, one of the 3x holes changes but you forget to update the 3x to 2x. Other CAD software does provide this.
I know Onshape provides guidance on performance considerations and how to structure a project through their literature, however, a dedicated video from Onshape that directly addresses the guidelines on how to minimize file load and reload times would be beneficial to all future and current Onshape users. I think they should incorporate this directly in their training. Poindexter by Design went through the growing pains of this issue but through the Onshape literature and our own experiences we've developed guidelines on how to keep our Onshape performance maximized!
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
In very few cases something in the model did not work as expected. The ability to share the model and get advice or restore the model and get a bug fix (which happened once IIRC) is really good, The response was fast (less than 20 hours and I'm not in the US time zone), and to the point.
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.
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.
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
On the plus side, when we do use it, the process is really frictionless and I can see a time when if it were our primary platform, there would be a good deal better ability to share information with one another.
The ROI is not clear yet since again, it is not yet our primary platform. In a very real sense, it is still viewed as an extended beta evaluation until or when the tools in Onshape are the functional equivalent of those in SW.
I'm not sure how much time or effort the IT staff spend on maintaining SW, but I do know that each version rollout is quite an effort whereas Onshape does that on the fly and there is literally no effort required by IT other than to provide a fast internet connection.