The Product Innovation Blog

• Blog
• Evaluating Onshape
• Security

Onshape brings cloud-native security and real-time control to CAD. Manage users, track activity, and protect your designs all without servers or file risks.

Jeremy Regnerus

• Blog
• News from Onshape @ PTC
• Configurations

Now in Onshape App Store: Infinitive’s 3D product configurator platform integrates with Onshape to create interactive, browser-based configurators. Let customers design valid products without engineering help.

Rachel Valerio

• Blog
• Education & Universities
• Education

Effectively use Onshape for Education with your learning management system (LMS) to elevate engineering lessons in the classroom.

Eric Hall

• Blog
• Becoming an Expert

Speed up your CAD workflow with 10 practical ways to use Onshape AI Advisor. From migration tips to automation best practices, get real prompt examples that help you design faster and smarter with AI-powered guidance.

The Onshape Team

• Blog
• Evaluating Onshape
• Data Management

Onshape’s cloud-native CAD keeps your data safe with automatic versioning, real-time backups, and crash-proof reliability.

Jeremy Regnerus

• Blog
• Evaluating Onshape
• Data Management

Onshape eliminates the pain of traditional CAD data management. No PDM servers, no file locking, and no IT complexity. Just secure, built-in data management and real-time collaboration.

Jeremy Regnerus

• Blog
• Customers & Case Studies
• Industrial Equipment & Machine Design
• Enterprise
• Commercial (Pro/Standard)

AE Inc. doubled revenue three years running after migrating from SOLIDWORKS to cloud-native CAD. Learn how this 30-year custom machinery company transformed operations, eliminated IT overhead, and accelerated project delivery.

The Onshape Team

• Blog
• Mobile and Browser Clients
• Data Management
• Collaboration

Onshape’s cloud-native CAD needs no installs or updates, enabling real-time collaboration and zero downtime. Learn how Onshape outperforms SOLIDWORKS and Inventor.

Jeremy Regnerus

• Blog
• News from Onshape @ PTC
• Collaboration
• Enterprise

Onshape Enterprise’s new Connections feature enables secure, real-time collaboration between OEMs, suppliers, and partners without compromising IP protection.

Aaron Magnin

• Blog
• Evaluating Onshape
• Modern CAD

Onshape’s Variable Studio streamlines parametric modeling, enabling centralized updates, simplified management, and consistency across projects.

Sandeep Urankar

• Blog
• Evaluating Onshape
• Features
• Branching & Merging
• Release Management
• Documents
• Data Management
• Collaboration

Stop fighting file-based CAD. Cloud-native features like automated version control, real-time collaboration and instant sharing deliver measurable productivity gains.

The Onshape Team

• Blog
• News from Onshape @ PTC
• Configurations
• Assemblies
• Surfacing
• Sketches
• Custom Features
• PCB Studio
• Rendering
• Simulation
• Branching & Merging
• Collaboration

See mirror assembly and inertial relief in action. The internal Onshape design competition showcases use cases from accessible design to advanced simulation.

Rachel Valerio

• Blog
• Evaluating Onshape
• Data Management
• Commercial (Pro/Standard)
• Enterprise

Engineers are ditching SolidWorks for Onshape. Learn how cloud-native CAD transforms file management, version control, and collaboration – no more Pack and Go, ZIP files, or GitHub hacks.

Michael LaFleche

• Blog
• Education
• Education & Universities
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• Branching & Merging
• Configurations
• Evaluating Onshape

An educator’s account of 6 workflow improvements, from real-time collaboration to eliminating version conflicts, after switching CAD instruction to Onshape.

Matt Shields

• Blog

Onshape’s latest releases bring Mirror Assembly, Query Variables, and more features that solve daily CAD frustrations.

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