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Originally Posted by Michael Hill
I just signed up to try it out. Holy cow is it frustrating to use. It's not nearly responsive enough compared to a real desktop CAD program like SolidWorks. FWIW, I'm on a decently high-end laptop (Dell Precision M3800) with Google Chrome.I really couldn't see using this for real design. It's an interesting concept, but man does it need to be faster.
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I had the same feeling when I first signed up. I'm used to a dedicated CAD machine, SW, and custom keyboard shortcuts and macros. OnShape definitely isn't as snappy as your setup or my old setup, but its a different CAD system that's designed to be used differently. Once I watched the tutorials, I realized how they designed OnShape to be used and a lot of my gripes were alleviated by time savings elsewhere.
For example. You can create multiple parts in one Part Studio that reference each other like features in SW, but they're different parts. For example, you can create a 2x1x.0625 tube that starts on the face of one tube and extrudes to the face of another. Then as you change the distance between the tubes, the spanning tube will update automatically.
This can be done in SW, but it is MUCH faster in OnShape. I used this feature to set up the chassis in the linked model dynamically. The chassis width, length, and the drop center can be updated just by changing two 3 variables. Again, this can be done in SW, but it is a lot faster and easier in OnShape.
Secondarily, I'm willing to take a hit on expert-level performance to make CAD more accessible to our students.