[jmsmith]

Our team is in a very similar position, and we are pushing toward OnShape as our CAD. We are also a third year team, we also have not yet really used CAD, and we are also without a CAD mentor. We are a 1-to-1 Mac school, so OnShape is particularly attractive to us. (I don't care how "robust" Solidworks is. It simply does not run on our computers.) I'm not too worried about students leaving the team without industry experience in an industry-standard CAD. First, there is a lot of value in just learning how to use CAD in general. Apple Pages is far easier to learn if you are already comfortable with Open Office or Word. Second, we really have no idea where the industry will be in five years.

In any case, we could at least consider working with other teams on a library of FRC relevant components for OnShape.