Release Management for CAD Design

Streamlined Release Management

Set up automation for standard release and approval workflows, including teams, roles, and preferences, in just a few steps. Onshape’s flexible part-numbering generates part numbers and revision schemas, streamlining the design and approval process. Manage revision control for parts, assemblies, and drawings, tracking their status in real-time—whether in-progress, released, or rejected.

Continuous Access

Balancing data control with flexibility and collaboration is crucial in release management. Onshape ensures continuous data access, allowing uninterrupted work during the creation and approval stages. With this, you can support engineering change orders (ECO) seamlessly, sharing assemblies, drawings, and data without blocking access. Onshape enables you to work efficiently from any device even mobile devices through the Onshape Mobile App. With this level of access, you can approve and release designs even on the go.

Live Updates

Stay updated with live notifications. Built-in change detection, alerts, and visual cues keep teams aware and informed about new versions of parts or assemblies, ensuring the correct revision is always in use.

Additionally, approvers and observers are automatically notified whenever a design undergoes changes or requires review, streamlining communication in the approval process.

Simplified Sharing

Onshape simplifies the process of identifying the revision of a CAD model, ensuring you share the correct CAD with manufacturing every time. Visual cues and filters show a part's release status, saving valuable time. Onshape Publications lets you collate released designs from multiple Documents for easy, secure sharing with external suppliers and manufacturing partners.

Fast and Flexible Approvals

Traditional file-based PDM wastes time on rejected designs, requiring users to recreate and resubmit files. Onshape’s built-in, cloud-native PDM allows easy rollback, cancellation, and cloning of new release candidates. This flexible approach to building release packages and managing assignees helps teams quickly overcome setbacks and reach approved designs faster.

Uncomplicated Administration

Eliminate cost overruns and downtime with Onshape’s cloud-native PDM. Its built-in release management capabilities require no additional licenses, installs, or IT administration, and comes at no extra cost. Quickly scale your team to changing business demands, and collaborate safely with external partners by including them in your release processes to accelerate project timelines.