We’ve started using it for my engineering classes and it’s really comparable to Inventor, it allows for multiple people working at once and it’s all browser-based so works on the cruddy school-supplied Chromebooks. I’m just curious about other peoples thoughts and if more have started using it since the changes.
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We’ve been using Onshape for a couple of seasons now, and working with it in this stay-at-home environment has really validated that as a good choice.
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My team has been using it for years. It’s awesome.
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I believe this is our team’s first year using Onshape, and we’ve been doing well with it. We love how easy it is to use and how accessible it is. As someone who uses a cruddy school-supplied Chromebook, I love it. I have used Inventor in the past briefly, and I very much prefer Onshape.
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I started this week with 60 students in my Introduction to Engineering classes. We had previously planned on using Inventor in the lab, which we do every year, but given the mix of Windows, Mac, and Chromebook at home, using anything other than Onshape for a full class of brand new students would have been next to impossible. Plus, the Onshape learning resources are great. So, Thank You! to Onshape for making this awesome web-base program available to us all at no cost.
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Anybody try on shape with very slow connection? Like 15mbps up down?
Our shop has slow internet, so we opted for Fusion 360, which worked great, especially when Comcast went down… But just curious about Onshape with tiny bandwidth.
Thanks!
Our school wifi connections are pretty regularly in the 3-8mbps ranges, and while there’s some issues with a bunch of people modifying really complex assemblies or part studios, it’s generally not noticeable with smaller ones. I suspect this has to do with syncing across all the simultaneous edits, where if you’re in different tabs it can happen in the background at a slower rate.
You’ll notice a spotty connection much more than a slower one in my experience.
Edit: We had between 1 and 15 people in our doc at a time. Towards the top of that was a little dicier.
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Our team has been using it for a few years now.
We’ve tried to introduce it to the CAD classes at our schools for.a bit now, but with the work/school from home I think we may have accidentally converted the district.
Our school teaches Solidworks in our engineering classes so because of that, our team uses Solidworks. I have though been using Onshape more and more and after finding out how there are many different pros to it(feature scripts, overall less mates in assemblies, and of course the great teamwork capabilities of it). When my Solidworks license expired earlier this week, I had no trouble choosing Onshape as my substitute(though it may not be a “substitute” any longer).
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My 5mbps down 1 up connection works with 2 people using onshape and a video conference going on
We were already planning on switching Onshape after this year, but it has proved invaluable in our current state. It allows for much easier collaboration than our old system ( Solidworks+Grabcad) and has features that make designing certain things far easier. I highly recommend it for FRC teams since it’s free, allows students to design from home easier since it just runs in your browser, and has resources like CAM and COTS parts libraries. The free training is also an incredible bonus.
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2470 official switched to OnShape this year and it was our first year designing most of our robot before it was built. We love OnShape!
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