2025 is here and you’ve probably made a few resolutions – and maybe have even already broken one. While you’re pursuing new goals to become a new you, consider making one more resolution.
Start the new year with a bounty of design and development advantages by giving you and your colleagues the gift of cloud-native CAD software. You probably already thought about making a switch. Your current CAD platform was uncooperative, unreliable, and flat-out uninspiring in 2024, leading to lost time and lost opportunities — and ample daydreaming about what else is out there.
Well, you don’t need a crystal ball to peer into a future with cloud-based CAD. We’ll do that for you. Here are five reasons why you should consider resolving your CAD woes with PTC’s Onshape.
We Don’t Mind If You Kick Our Tires
Moving to a new CAD platform is a big step. We understand. We want you to get to know Onshape on your own terms and with ample time to see for yourself how our cloud-based CAD tools can meld with your workflow and exceed expectations. You’ll have time to discover it all without any pressure through the Onshape Discovery Program.
The program lets qualified teams try out Onshape Professional for up to six months at no cost. We believe that once product developers see what they can do with Onshape, they won’t want to go back to their old file-based way of working.
4AG Robotics was one such tire kicker. The Canada-based agricultural robotics company gave Onshape a spin through the program and found out its team could improve task management, better control release management, and more effectively handle the storage and access of design files. 4AG Robotics has since made their switch to Onshape official, and we’re proud to partner with them as they revolutionize mushroom harvesting.
The Onshape
Discovery Program
Learn how qualified CAD professionals
can get Onshape Professional
for up to 6 months – at no cost!
Startups and Entrepreneurs Can CAD for Free
If you’re an entrepreneur or startup, we want you to focus on the designs you need to make and the products you need to develop before worrying about the cost of CAD software. We’ve helped thousands of fledgling companies that were stuck on hardware to build better faster by shifting them to our cloud-native development platform at no cost.
Qualifying hardware startups taking advantage of the Onshape Startup Program include Imago Aerospace in Mexico.
“Onshape accelerates our process and allow us to be more proactive and solve problems. All that helps us keep innovating,” said Jorge Alvarez, the company’s lead mechanical engineer.
The Washing Machine Project has also made great strides because of the program.
“Moving our CAD and ecosystem onto Onshape has been fantastic,” said senior design engineer Jack Biltcliffe.
The Onshape
Startup Program
Equip your team with full-featured CAD, built-in
PDM, and enterprise analytics all in one system.
You Can Build a Community
You get more than a 3D-design tool when you join the Onshape family. You get a seat at our big table and get to be a valuable voice in our community. It all started after we watched, with appreciation, many of the designers and engineers who use Onshape shout from their rooftops, preaching the good word about our product. It was organic and meaningful. That’s why we created the Onshape Advocacy Program.
The program opens the door to professional networking, a chance to be highlighted in stories and social media, an opportunity to provide feedback that will improve our product offerings, and possibly a speaking slot at industry events.
Maybe you want to highlight a project like Jonathan Bruns’ custom aluminum truck camper, or maybe you’d like to talk about propeller engineering, as several contributors did last year.
That’s not all; you can also add valuable insights any time from your laptop or mobile device by joining our LinkedIn User Group. You’re not required to join our community, but we’ve never had to ask. Our users want to be part of a movement that can shape CAD. Chances are you’ll want to join.
The Onshape Advocacy Program
Whether you’re designing the next breakthrough in aerospace or revolutionizing consumer products, your experience could be the spark that ignites another engineer’s breakthrough.
You Can Help Educate the Community
Here’s more about that opportunity to have a voice: Our Creator Program is where aspiring and longstanding content creators go to showcase how they use Onshape. Whether it is a step-by-step tutorial of our platform or just general engineering insight or commentary, all types of content will be considered.
You can earn up to $15 per every thousand views on YouTube (the only channel we use). More than that, your content can help other engineers and developers get the kinds of advantages you get from using Onshape. Apply to be a member of the Onshape Creator Program.
The Onshape Creator Program
Are you a content creator who wants to help educate and entertain the engineering community?
Spread the Joy of Cloud-Based CAD
Odds are you know another company struggling with its CAD platform. Let them know how you’re looking forward to blazing ahead in 2025 thanks to your leap to cloud-native CAD. Tell them it’s not too late to make their own CAD resolution and refer them to Onshape.
Don’t worry; there is enough cloud to go around.
Friends Don’t Let Friends Use Old CAD!
Know a colleague who could benefit from our cloud-native, fully-featured collaborative design platform?