Onshape Pricing Overview

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do I like best about OnShape? Well no CAD software is perfect so you are always trying to wring the best out of what you have. This means productivity in terms of useful work done per hour and retun on investment in terms of £'s (in my case) spent on equipment/services per fee hour earned. OnShape hits both nails squarely on the head.

Total confidence that every hour spent on CAD work is retained and reusable design work or training investment. Not having to remember to save, recreating unsaved design work, sorting out which version to work on, unable to load legacy data, upgrading software. These are all non-fee-earning activities.

Get useful work done anywhere there is a descent network access, on a mid-range platform. I use to use a mobile workstation for presenting work and on-site workshops. The physical weight, concern of loosing the workstation and the cost of a replacement (in termes on £'s and time (3 days)) was, literally as well as figuratively, a weight off my shoulders when I changed to OnShape and a off-the-shelf laptop (replacement cost 1/4, replacement time 1/6, back up an running the same day).

Features are improving every quater, training and documentation is very good and its open source aspect is a untapped potential. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Slow response to support. If you are use to having your hand held and needing instant support then the extra cost of other vendors is worth it.

If you are independant, resourceful and find you know more than the support team then OnShape is OK but they need to work on this.

Part of its strength is its ability to move stuff around and rename things without having to worry about conflicts and access rights. But, unless you have a bit of rigour and structure to your file handling you can get in an awful mess. With great power com great responibility... to be tidy!

Not being able to work off line or if the network is iffy (clients with rubbish wi-fi and uncooperative IT departments, the boonies, travelling).

But that said I have always found a way around this and it has never been a show stopper. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.