Design Collaboration in the Cloud
Use Onshape’s CAD Collaboration tools for Creative Breakthroughs, Faster.
Use Onshape’s CAD Collaboration tools for Creative Breakthroughs, Faster.
Why is collaboration essential to design?
Collaborating improves designs by bringing together diverse perspectives, which enhances overall team creativity, leading to a better product. During the design process, feedback is essential. Onshape improves CAD collaboration thanks to its cloud-native platform, which allows simultaneous editing, Follow Mode, and Commenting to enhance direct feedback. Onshape also provides flexible sharing options so you can collect diverse stakeholder inputs efficiently, improving the design processes and project outcomes.
Key Features
Simultaneous Collaboration
Onshape’s unmatched collaboration capabilities deliver simultaneous editing, sharing, and real-time interactions. This allows teams to work together on the same document while providing social cues for presence and activity. This immediate feedback ensures all stakeholders are aligned and updated in real-time.

Follow Mode
Experience live design reviews and enhance training sessions with Follow Mode. Stay synchronized with the presenter in real-time, improving communication efficiency.
Markups, Comments, & Tasks
Streamline communication with real-time mark-ups and commenting directly inside the design tool, reducing reliance on lengthy emails. Then simplify project management by assigning Tasks to owners directly in the comments, ensuring tracking efficiency and completion.
Sharing and Access Permissions
Provide designers and engineers with sharing and access controls in Onshape to encourage collaboration. Customize permissions for CAD models, offering view-only, commenting, or full editing privileges. Ensure secure sharing with trusted partners and vendors.
Branching and Merging
Teams can explore alternative design ideas with Branch and Merge. In Onshape, you can create experimental "branches" from core designs and easily revert to previous stages if necessary. Merge the best ideas and discard the rest, enhancing innovation without concern for loss.
ロールベースのアクセス制御
Onshape prevents your data from falling into the wrong hands by providing advanced security measures like Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), audit logs, and 2-factor Authentication. These features ensure that only authorized users can access your data, providing control over intellectual property.
Explore More
Kickstart your team collaboration with this handpicked collection of Tech Tips and instructional videos.
How Does Onshape Improve Collaboration for Your Global Teams?
09.22.2023
Watch this video to learn how four companies with globally dispersed engineering teams used Onshape to streamline collaboration.
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One of the things that most attracted us to Onshape is the collaborative capabilities. The ability for our American team and our Indonesian team to work together in real time is extremely valuable. We were losing a lot of time when we used to have to send files back and forth.
