Onshape 3D CAD

Onshape

About this app

Onshape is a full mechanical CAD platform designed for professional users and extended teams. Create, edit, collaborate, and comment in real time with others from any computer or mobile device with an internet connection (free sign-up required).

With Onshape’s secure cloud workspace teams can work together from anywhere on any device without the hassles of file management, IT overhead, and license key distribution, helping engineers focus more on doing their best work.

Parametric CAD:
Design parts together in Part Studios with a full suite of parametric modeling tools
Create mechanical Assemblies to capture complex motion

Ease of Access:
Create, edit, and view from any computer or mobile device (internet connection required)
Begin a project from one device and seamlessly continue from another

Collaboration:
Instantly share your CAD data with your teams and partners. Monitor, change, and revoke permissions at any time
Work together with other users and view changes in real-time as they are made
Use Follow mode to see exactly what your teammate sees and add suggestions using Onshape’s built-in commenting tools

Data Management:
Maintain a single source of truth for your data, no more sending around or checking in and out of files
Never worry about losing your work, all of your changes are saved automatically
Explore multiple design ideas in parallel and create professional release and approval processes for your designs

Onshape proudly supports students and educators free of charge and is available free for non-commercial projects in an open-source public work space.

Since Onshape is updated every few weeks with dozens of new features and user-requested enhancements, keep an eye out for update notifications from the Google Play Store.

Ratings and reviews

Such a nice app, but has it's quirks. I use Onshape a lot. It is my go-to tool for 3D design. I even prefer the app over the website, most of the time. However, with recent updates, make the measuring tool useless. The measurement displays behind the menu at the bottom of the screen, where it cannot be seen. I guess I'll have to pull out the laptop just to see if this design works for me.

Even on a big tablet it doesn't add more icons to the top bar there's just a ton of wasted space that could be used for shortcuts. Using the measure tool cancels your sketch (very not cool). There's no way to "select other" on mobile. Needs a toggle for auto snapping to constraints because it makes some projects impossible on mobile when your point keeps snapping somewhere you don't want it to

This is the best 3D drafting app on the market! If you're used to a system like solidworks, try this. My only gripe is how easy it is to lose progress on a draft by clicking "back" on your phone, clicking the back arrow on the top left of the screen, or the little X on the bottom right of the screen. If there was a little popup that asked "do you want to discard this drawing?" It would be literally perfect. I only bring that up because I've mistouched these buttons and lost hours of work.

What's new

• New Thin option in Sweep feature
• Support Classes & Assignments
• Support Enterprise analytics drill down report for where used obsolete items
• Initial support for skip pattern instances
• Initial support for editing Isoparametric curve feature
• Fixed an issue with opening external viewer for downloaded PDFs
• Various fixes for Parametric Part Studio
• Various crash and bug fixes