Onshape
Research
Symposium
August 3, 2022 10 AM - 2 PM ET
The Onshape Research Symposium is a virtual event bringing together engineering researchers who are leveraging Onshape’s cloud native architecture to drive innovation in their fields.
During this 4-hour virtual event:
- You will hear keynote presentations about exciting research in the fields of Deep Learning and Computational Design, as well as industry insight into how agile product design happens in practice.
- Thought leaders from academia and industry will come together to discuss how Onshape usage data are enabling new insights into how students learn and how professional product development teams work together.
- We will hold a student poster competition to allow you to network with the community of researchers and dive deep into the innovative ways Onshape is being used in various disciplines to go beyond traditional parametric modeling.
This year's event has concluded. Thank you to all participants and attendees. See you next year!
Agenda at a glance
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Jordan Cox, PTC
Insider Insights: How Onshape was Built to Work with Research
Ilya Baran, Onshape
Onshape is not just a unique product development system, but also a unique organization. Learn why Onshape should be the platform for your next CAD research project.
Panel Discussion: Understanding Collaborative Design with Onshape Analytics
Alison Olechowski, University of Toronto | Stanko Škec, University of Zagreb | Ian Gardiner, Avidbots
Onshape’s cloud-native architecture stores each edit made to a document as a flexible change in the database, allowing users to analyze the different types of actions done by different members of the team and how their actions change over time. Come hear from researchers who are using these data to gain new insights into how collaborative design really happens and a commercial customer using Onshape to accelerate their product development process.
Student Research Poster Session
The poster competition will be an opportunity for students to share their research projects that use Onshape and network with the community of researchers leveraging cloud-native CAD in innovative ways. All participants will receive Onshape swag and three winners will receive 3D printers, including an attendees choice award.
Keynote: Next-Generation Design Systems
Adriana Schulz, University of Washington
Next-generation design systems should help experts efficiently create high-performing designs, and let users with scant expertise design one-off models that meet their individual needs. In this talk, we will discuss methods that combine numerical optimization, programming languages, and machine learning, to create more intelligent tools that will simplify design and broaden its appeal.
Industry Insights: How Premier Custom Built is Customizing Onshape
Chad Stoltzfus, Premier Custom Built
Premier Custom Built, an industry leader in custom cabinetry, is streamlining their design and manufacturing workflows using Onshape. To fit the needs of their highly customized process, they have created a library of over 100 custom features using FeatureScript to automate the design and developed a REST API integration for exporting manufacturing information in a familiar format. This talk will focus on how a software engineer is leveraging Onshape’s single source of truth and customizability to add value at various stages of Premier Custom Built’s product development process.
Closing Remarks and Student Poster Competition Winners Announced
Matt Mueller, PTC
Student Poster Competition
Thank you to all students who submitted their research projects to the poster competition. The poster session will take place from 11:40am-12:40pm ET, during which time each of the presenters will be in a Zoom breakout room sharing the screens while attendees will be free to move between breakout rooms. At the end of the poster session, a Zoom poll will be used to determine the winner of "Best Overall" poster project, who will receive a Creality Ender 3 V2. Winners will be announced at the end of the Research Symposium along with 2 runners up for "Best Research Project" and "Best Poster Design", who will each receive Creality Ender 3 V1's.
Links to the submitted posters are below.
Robot Arm Path Planning Using Onshape Digital Twins - Aashir Jalal - Tufts University
Tools For Education From Tufts CEEO - Alexander Koppel - Tufts University
Onshape in AR Maintenance Routines - Jessica Stastny - Brigham Young University
Monitoring AR Learning via Onshape Digital Twins - JT Frandsen - Brigham Young University
Mechanical Part Classification Using Sequence Models - Lucas Crupi - University of Toronto
Virtual Prototypes (VPs) for Design Meetings - Nikola Horvat - University of Zagreb
DeepCAD: A Deep Generative Network for Computer-Aided Design Models - Rundi Wu - Columbia University
Featured Speakers
Jordan has spent the last 30 years working in industry and academia as a mechanical engineer and professor specializing in product development, engineering design & analysis, and now leads the Education team at PTC.
Adriana Schulz is an assistant professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, where she develops computational tools to revolutionize how we design and build physical artifacts.
As a Senior Mechanical Engineer at Avidbots, Ian designs intelligent and helpful cleaning robots to assist people in their daily lives.
Dr. Olechowski is a professor of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto and the director of Ready Lab, a research group which aims to improve engineering collaboration.
Stanko Škec is an assistant professor at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, and a member of FMENA CADLab, a research team which explores interactions between digital engineering tools and design process.
With five years of experience in FeatureScript, Chad aims to mold Onshape to feel like a CAD system that was made specifically for Premier Custom Built.
Ilya started out his career as a computer graphics researcher at MIT and Disney Research, and then joined Onshape to become one of its architects.