Built-in version control and release management tools eliminate the need for a separate PDM system. Everybody works on the latest design data at all times. Every edit made by every user is captured and recorded and can be reversed at any time, providing unlimited undo/redo and a documented audit trail. Branching and merging enables multiple product ideas to be developed in parallel.
Accelerate time-to-market
With the rapid pace of technological innovation, it’s no surprise that speed-to-market usually wins. Onshape is the only product development platform that can be instantly deployed on any computer or mobile device, enabling teams to work together globally and rapidly. Teams can experiment on design alternatives together or independently from one another without affecting each other's work. Real-time design reviews, commenting and simultaneous editing enable a collaborative workflow where multiple design iterations can be completed in parallel, and when approved, the best elements can be merged into the final design. Product specifications and drawings can be instantly shared with your manufacturing team or suppliers to get the best possible product to market before your competition.
Zero IT Footprint
Onshape requires no downloads, installations, or license codes. You can access Onshape's cloud-based platform with any modern web browser from your Mac, PC, Chromebook or Linux computer. Administrators can instantly provision and deprovision seats to scale their design team and meet fluctuating business needs. Built-in version control eliminates the need for PDM systems with dedicated servers and network infrastructure, software upgrades and licensing. Onshape frees your IT team from CAD and PDM maintenance and empowers your engineers to spend more time designing and less time dealing with software issues, locked files, and incompatible file types.
Risk Mitigation and IP Protection
With traditional file-based CAD, your product designs and intellectual property are subject to unauthorized duplication, data breaches, or even accidental sharing. Onshape's database-driven architecture eliminates these kinds of security risks. There are no files to copy or manage. Designs are stored and tracked with a complete version history, allowing you to audit or roll back changes as needed. Strict, role-based access control keeps your design data secure at all times. Every designer, engineer, contractor, or supplier involved in the product design lifecycle is given specific permissions and rights. Instant deprovisioning means when a contract is complete, or an engineer leaves the company or changes roles, you can immediately revoke their access to the project.
Eliminate Silos
Onshape is the only product development platform that includes real-time data management. When one team member anywhere in the world makes a design change, everyone else instantly sees it. Built-in version control significantly reduces costly manufacturing errors. Distributed teams can simultaneously explore alternative design ideas and converge on the best solution. A simplified CAD viewer mode allows your sales team to demonstrate the latest product designs to customers, share models with suppliers to get earlier quotations, or send early prototypes to your marketing department. Up-to-the-minute analytics and reporting tools offer greater transparency to project stakeholders, and enables easier project management.
What do you get with Onshape?
Data Management
Collaboration
Edit designs simultaneously with other users and view changes in real-time as they are made. Easily share design data with your team, your company or your suppliers, setting granular permissions to view, edit, and export. Add comments and assign tasks to keep everyone on track. Follow mode facilitates interactive design reviews, presentations and collaboration.
Workflow
Automate workflows to manage the release and revision control of parts, assemblies, drawings, and imported files. Create custom workflows specific to your own business processes. Users can design in parallel while waiting for a release candidate to be approved. Set up trigger points for notifications and emails.
Parts
Design complex solid and surface models using top-down or bottom-up methodologies. Capture design intent and inter-part relationships by designing parts together in a Part Studio. Further extend Onshape's robust feature set with custom features created using FeatureScript to automate complex or repetitive design tasks.
Assemblies
Create highly structured and detailed assemblies with built-in standard hardware and parts linked from other Documents. Capture complex kinematic relationships with a single Mate. Design parts in-context and manage updates predictably. Onshape's unique database architecture eliminates the problem of broken links and missing files.
Drawings
Create fully detailed drawings of parts and assemblies with dimensions, datums, surface finish and weld symbols, geometric tolerances, notes, tables, balloons, callouts, sheets and fully configurable drawing properties. Supports import and export of DWG, DWT and DXF file formats.
Bill of Materials
Configure and manage a Bill of Materials while simultaneously editing an assembly. Insert non-geometric items with quantities and predefined units. Add BOM tables to assembly drawings with intelligent balloon callouts. Real-time updates ensure the BOM is never out of sync with the assembly it reflects.
Configurations
Build complex families of parts and assemblies with separate tables for each configuration option, dramatically reducing the number of rows and cells. Configuration variables enable infinite product variations. Each configuration can have its own part number and revision (release) history.
Analytics
Monitor project status with Activity, Release, Project and User Dashboards. Review document access and conduct security reviews. Stay up-to-date with the user activity stream. Users can see and access reports according to Global Permissions.
Integrations
Develop your own Onshape integrations via a robust REST API. Extend Onshape to meet your business and engineering needs with ERP, PLM, SSO, simulation, and CAM add-ons available in the Onshape App Store. New partners and integrations are being continuously added.
Support
Request support directly in the Onshape product. In-app feedback tools connect you directly with the Onshape support team. Self-paced tutorials and instructor led training is available via our learning center. Interact with the Onshape Community and staff via the forum.
Security
Protect your design data from unauthorized use with role-based access control, AES-256 encryption, optional two-factor authentication and comprehensive audit logs. Onshape is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and is hosted on AWS. Payments with Onshape are PCI compliant.
"I haven’t used a file-based CAD system yet that hasn’t crashed on me, especially in the concept-generation stage. I’ve never lost work in Onshape and I never have to remember to hit the save button. At this point, it would be a struggle to return to our old CAD system."
"If an engineer goes down the wrong road, we can quickly go back to where we were earlier and not waste time getting back on track. Doing this with our old CAD and PDM systems would have involved a lot of redesign work. Onshape saves us a lot of time."