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Everything you need to know about transitioning from SOLIDWORKS to Onshape
What do companies say after switching to Onshape?
Switching to a modern, cloud-based CAD platform can transform the way teams design and collaborate. Onshape empowers companies to eliminate file-based headaches, accelerate product development, and innovate faster. In these real-world migration stories, leading brands share why they chose Onshape and how it’s helping them streamline workflows, boost efficiency, and stay ahead in competitive markets.
Trek Bicycle
Industry: Consumer Products
Headquarters: Waterloo, Wisconsin, USA
Company Size: 5,001-10,000 employees
Impact: Faster iterations, zero file version errors, and time savings on cable routing designs accelerated Trek’s product development.
Onshape is the next version of CAD. Old CAD is very heavy, clunky, and archaic. And when I think about the Onshape platform, it's the next iteration. It's lighter weight from a support perspective; there's less that we have to do to take care of it and manage it. The Onshape platform is the tool that we've chosen for those reasons.’’
BOA Technology
Industry: Consumer Products
Headquarters: Denver, Colorado, USA
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Impact: A 25% productivity boost, faster product cycles through real-time collaboration, and 24/7 global alignment with stakeholders.
The difference is night and day. … Now we can focus on solving problems instead of managing files. Everyone’s working from the same source of truth, and that has a huge impact on how fast we move.’’
CIXI
Industry: Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
Headquarters: Poisy, France
Company size: 51-200 employees
Impact: Zero CAD crashes save 40+ hours per engineer annually, hardware costs cut by 75%, and seamless real-time collaboration enabled.
Onshape’s versioning system lets us navigate between several branches or return to a previous version extremely easily and quickly compared to a file-based system.’’
Norden Mfg
Industry: Machinery Manufacturing
Headquarters: North Bloomfield, Ohio, USA
Company size: 51-200 employees
Impact: 50% faster onboarding, zero file management issues, and built-in simulation tools for instant design validation.
With SOLIDWORKS Simulation, I had to do a full pack-and-go of the model and move it to my local machine to set up the scenario. Then I’d cross my fingers it would run, and if I made a design change, I had to start over. With Onshape, I just set it up and go. I use it way more now because it’s always there, and it works.’’
Exxentric
Industry: Consumer Products
Headquarters: Stockholm, Sweden
Company size: 11-50 employees
Impact: Faster design cycles, higher quality products, and better cross-team collaboration accelerated product development across the board.
Our CEO, who is very forward thinking and likes innovation, felt that file-based CAD systems were outdated and clunky. He was drawn to Onshape’s collaboration capabilities enabled by it being cloud-based.’’
K2 Skis
Industry: Consumer Products
Headquarters: Bellevue, Washington
Company size: 501-1,000 employees
Impact: Streamlined communication across global teams and customized automation workflows reduced design time by 20%-25%
In file-based systems, you're always cautious. You’re waiting for someone to check something in or worrying if the version you're looking at is the right one. That friction slows everyone down. Onshape removes that entirely.’’
Alternative Engineering, Inc.
Industry: Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
Headquarters: Belmont, Michigan, USA
Company size: 11-50 employees
Impact: Eliminated wait time on large files, saving 10,000 engineering hours annually – worth $1.25 million in productivity gains.
If Onshape went away, it would cripple us right now. We'd survive, but it would destroy my spiral chute abilities. Without a good program, we don't exist.’’
