Onshape App Store Tool Creates Interactive CAD Model Showrooms

Your CAD model is ready to take the stage, but sharing it with non-technical stakeholders, like sales or marketing, can mean static screenshots that tell only half the story, or complex demonstrations that veer into confusion. Or, you’re vying for an engineering role but have no way to highlight your CAD skills.

If only there were an easy way to create an interactive 3D CAD model showroom, where you control the spotlight…

Cue OnDisplay.

Available through the Onshape App Store, OnDisplay helps turn CAD models into engaging 3D showrooms that function as a 3D CAD viewer online – no CAD knowledge required. The app integrates seamlessly with Onshape by PTC, building upon the cloud-native CAD platform’s existing sharing and rendering capabilities.

Onshape Sets the Stage

As the only truly cloud-native CAD and PDM platform, Onshape provides solid capabilities for sharing, reviewing, and presenting designs.

With no files to manage, designers can easily control access and view permissions to a 3D model with the blue “Share” button. Publications provide another sharing option by enabling compilation of selected assemblies, drawings, and documentation into one organized package. Additionally, the built-in Render Studio allows designers to create photorealistic images of a design by applying materials and lighting in an environment, bringing your 3D model closer to reality.

OnDisplay expands on these capabilities to broaden engineering collaboration and deepen the story behind a design.

OnDisplay Steps into the Spotlight

OnDisplay is an integrated Onshape app that addresses two key challenges: Making your designs look impressive and sharing them effortlessly with anyone. The concept centers on helping designers embed their creations in a more impressive world while providing one-click sharing that works everywhere for everyone to see.

Transform Your Models Into Impressive Showrooms

OnDisplay automatically processes your Onshape models and places them in professional 3D environments. These environments can be customized with different backgrounds, from simple geometric settings to elaborate scenes.

Users can quickly apply materials, adjust lighting, and add animations like explosions and rotations – all with just a few clicks.

The app also supports interactive annotations and 3D sketching, allowing designers to draw directly on model surfaces with virtual markers that stay attached during rotations and explosions.

Share Anywhere, No Barriers

OnDisplay’s second major capability is effortless sharing. With one click, users get either a direct link or HTML embed code that works anywhere on the web. Viewers don’t need an Onshape or OnDisplay account, technical knowledge, or even awareness of what CAD modeling is.

The interactive showrooms can be embedded in websites, portfolios, CVs, product pages, or shared on social media – making professional 3D presentations accessible to marketing teams, clients, and any audience without engineering backgrounds.

Mobile and Tablet Ready

Once created, OnDisplay showrooms work seamlessly on iPads and mobile devices, like Onshape. This allows users to take interactive presentations anywhere for in-person demonstrations with clients or stakeholders.

Who Benefits Most from OnDisplay

Client Presentations Made Simple

Presenting concepts for design reviews to non-technical clients becomes straightforward when they can actually interact with your designs. No more explaining what they’re looking at – they can explore it themselves.

Sales and Marketing Teams Without CAD Access

Sales teams can embed OnDisplay showrooms directly in product pages or share via simple links during client calls. Marketing departments can integrate interactive models into campaigns without requiring engineering software access or technical training.

Early-Career Engineers Building Portfolios

OnDisplay helps showcase designs with rich, interactive presentations that stand out from static image galleries. Your work becomes immediately engaging and demonstrates technical capability in a format anyone can appreciate.

Encore Performance

OnDisplay bridges the gap between Onshape’s engineering-focused sharing capabilities and broader audience engagement. The integrated app makes it easy to present your best work in ways that were previously time-consuming or expensive to achieve, extending Onshape’s native functionality for new use cases.

OnDisplay is available through the Onshape App Store with a free 5-day trial period. It offers an accessible way to extend your design communication capabilities beyond traditional CAD sharing methods.