Onshape: great for product design teams working everywhere
February 23, 2019
Onshape: great for product design teams working everywhere
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Onshape
I use Onshape for the opto-mechanical design of optical systems. I import optical components or create native geometry based on the optical prescription and add custom mechanical features or components to the system to create a sub-system for my customers. I also use OnShape extensively to design and create fun promotional 3D printed products I give to my customers. I love the cloud and collaboration features of Onshape and also use the multi-CAD import as my customers use many different modeling tools.
- Cloud: always available.
- Collaborative: I have sub-contractors and we can work on the design together.
- PLM: easy vault, archive and rev control built-in.
- For my workflow, not much.
- Direct integration with my Ultimaker 3D printer would save a few steps...not essential but convenient.
- Positive: I do not have to think about spending time on patches or installation.
- Positive: pricing is reasonable as I started in early beta so I pay $1200 / year...if I had to pay $2000 / year I would probably migrate to SOLIDWORKS perpetually for my business needs.
- Negative: if OnShape raises prices too much, I will be forced to switch.
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 think this program has more features like OnShape than SOLIDWORKS.
Rhino3D is better at surfacing and workflow with my optical design programs.
I have not used Fusion360 except for evaluating in general so I think this program has more features like OnShape than SOLIDWORKS.