Onshape claims that its “Design Data Management 2.0” is a radically different approach that marks a new era in the way engineers manage design data. The new approach reworks how data are created, stored, shared, and managed. This approach eliminates the problems of old file-based data management and introduces new possibilities: • Virtual documents, not […]
6 ways Onshape helps you dump your Laptop!
Phil Foley, guest blogger 1. You no longer have to travel with a laptop Engineers, designers and other users of Solidworks, Inventor, Creo and Rhino, it’s time to dump your laptops. Onshape is the first web-based 3D Computer-aided-design package. Can a web-based package handle or even compete with your custom built, rock solid Workstation? Yes. […]
MecSoft launches VisualCAMc Beta – production CAM for Onshape
MecSoft Corporation, the developer of computer aided manufacturing (CAM) software solutions, announces the launch of a free Beta program for VisualCAMc, its cloud hosted, fully integrated CAM add-on app for Onshape. The beta is free and available for anyone who has an Onshape account and is approved by MecSoft. VisualCAMc leverages the legendary manufacturing capabilities […]
The Self-taught design system
Just where will artificial intelligence fit in with CAD software? Here’s a look at where developments stand now, and a preview of what might be coming. Jean Thilmany, Contributing Editor Artificial intelligence has a place in the future of computer-aided design technology, but right now, the role AI will play isn’t clear. That’s the view […]
The latest Apps for Onshape
The Onshape App Store makes finding new engineering apps – such as CAM, simulation, rendering, manufacturing and data management –easy. Many development partners offer Integrated Cloud Apps which work directly within Onshape Documents. Here are some of the more recent additions: Intact solutions Intact is an automated simulation service on the cloud that does not […]
Onshape launches sheet metal design tools
Onshape, a leading professional 3D CAD platform for Agile Product Design, introduces sheet metal design capabilities. The cloud-based design tools enable faster creation and refinement of sheet metal parts with simultaneous generation of editable, synchronized flat, folded and tabular views. “This has been one of the most highly anticipated enhancements requested by our customers,” says […]
FeatureScript amps up power of Onshape
By Bruce Jenkins, President, Ora Research Full-cloud CAD pioneer Onshape amped up the power and utility of its software with FeatureScript, a new programming language that lets users create new parametric features that look, feel and behave just like Onshape’s built-in features. FeatureScript Curve Pattern. Source: Onshape This is the same language used by Onshape […]
CAD-in-the-cloud moves closer to real-time sharing
by Jean Thilmany, Contributing Editor “The roughly $9 billion CAD market remains very fragmented and stuck in the old desktop paradigm,” said Jon Hirschtick, Onshape founder and chairman of the board. (Hirschtick and fellow Onshape founder John McEleney started CAD company SolidWorks in the early 1990s.) Other companies, notably Autodesk, Dassault Systemes, and PTC, include […]
Onshape: Future of CAD—or future of PLM?
By Bruce Jenkins, President, Ora Research LLC “Is Onshape intending to develop PLM eventually, or are they going to go the route of partners to provide that?” Thus posted a user in Onshape’s online discussion forum, continuing: “I ask because Onshape is a database system with the correct platform to seemingly handle this functionality.” Lou […]
Onshape Cloud-Based CAD Opens to Public Beta
Amid a great amount of excitement and speculation, Onshape finally makes its first public appearance when the cloud-based CAD product opens today for public beta testing. Now everyone can see for themselves what all the hubbub has been about. The company behind the product is backed by multiple ex-SolidWorks employees and is spearheaded by SolidWorks […]
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