--- title: "Onshape Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of Onshape. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if Onshape is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/construction/onshape-profile/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- 1 million+ businesses helped. Get advice Get Free Advice [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [3D CAD Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/3d-cad/) / [Onshape](https://www.softwareadvice.com/construction/onshape-profile/) / Onshape Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/construction/onshape-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/construction/onshape-profile/alternatives/) # Onshape User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.5/5 - Total reviews: 357 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.5/5 - Customer support: 4.7/5 - Value for money: 4.6/5 - Functionality: 4.1/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 215 reviews (60%) - 4 stars: 121 reviews (34%) - 3 stars: 19 reviews (5%) - 2 stars: 1 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 1 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - The training resources and help center are genuinely useful too, and it’s convenient to come back to them anytime to refresh my memory on tools or features whenever I get a little stuck, and if the resources there don't answer your question, the Onshape community forum will help out with tips and tricks - Since switching to Onshape over a year ago, it has quickly become my go to CAD platform thanks to its clean UI, easy document management, and great training resources and support. - There is still a learning curve, especially for advanced workflows such as Derived, Composite Parts and Master Models, but the Learning Center is excellent and the support team has been invaluable whenever I got stuck. ### Most mentioned cons - Selecting other sketches while working in a new sketch is cumbersome; I have to exit the command (line circle etc.) to then go back and force the coincident reference a master sketch point, which feels like an extra unnecessary step. - The versions when using components from different assemblies is a bit confusing, especially when created a standard parts library, then having to create a new version (V1, V2, V3 etc) when using on another assemby.... - Mating and context editing can be frustrating because parts move around unexpectedly, and I have to constantly update the context in the assembly. ## Onshape customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 357 (page 1). ### Senior Industrial Designer / Owner - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ben K. - Industry: Design - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · daily - Reviewed: August 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall this software is a no brainer, it allows for iterative product development across teams, allowing easy and effective collaboration. Onshape continues to update and improve week to week so any issue experienced can be fixed by the Onshape team on the fly. The Onshape team listens and responds well. I chose Onshape because its a software that continues to improve and reacts to users needs. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I value Onshape for its file management, allowing me to create and iterate quickly through versions without the hassle of saving work or losing track of progress. It also helps with live progress updates. The versions, versioning, and branching features stand out to me the most, as they support my rapid design iteration. Not having to save files and dealing with software that doesn't crash are significant advantages. The flexibility and collaboration capabilities are also key reasons why I switched to Onshape. The initial setup was very easy for the most part, even though there was a bit of a learning curve. Overall, it has been a good experience. #### Cons Mating and context editing can be frustrating because parts move around unexpectedly, and I have to constantly update the context in the assembly. The mental model around context editing could benefit from tips and tricks pop-ups or other UI cues to help prevent unwanted parts and therefore reference movements. Versioning and branching can be confusing; the mental model, UI/UX, and training around versioning could be improved. Importing multibody parts or assemblies requires extra steps to prevent them from freely moving. I wish there was a way to easily make all parts rigid when importing. I have tried the "composite body" option, but it doesn't work well. Edge selection is also challenging sometimes as it prioritizes face selection rather than edge selection, making me zoom in and orient parts several times to select the edge. I'm not sure if this is a graphics issue with my display or an Onshape problem. Selecting other sketches while working in a new sketch is cumbersome; I have to exit the command (line circle etc.) to then go back and force the coincident reference a master sketch point, which feels like an extra unnecessary step. Rebuild times could improve. --- ### Overall good product - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Consumer Goods - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: 1-3 years · daily - Reviewed: July 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall very positive, I have recommended to many people. Has never failed me and is always able to get a task done without crashing like other brands #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Fast Customer Support, User Friendly, Consistently updating with new content, Allows for amazing design organization, Free public usage is a game changer. #### Cons Customer support could be kept more up to date with changes and practice more as sometimes it feels we know more then the "experts" --- ### Happy Onshape user - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Medical Devices - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: 1-3 years · daily - Reviewed: July 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I am not going back to Solidworks ever again. The whole team at our company loves the software and recommends it #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Almost never crashes, no lost data Great versioning / branching / merging Very clean interface, easy to use #### Cons You can't work offline Sometimes it takes too long to open a project and then you have to refresh the browser 3Dconnexion mouse sometimes does not work --- ### Organised workflow & high quality drawings - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Maritime - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · daily - Reviewed: July 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Onshape makes my creative process a lot more organised as assemblies can be created in different files, and alterations can easily be added and reflected to all of them. 3D modelling with solids allows my work to be a lot more precise compared to other software available in the industry. Overall, I believe the quality of my work has improved since I started using Onshape. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Onshape allows be to quickly produce high quality 3D and 2D drawings. Files are securely accessed online - no need to download any software. Costumer support has been quick. #### Cons One thing I find worth reporting is that when adding multiple parts into an assembly, only the first part comes in the correct position. Furthermore, currently there is no way of adding a 3D sectioned view to a 2D drawing. --- ### Onshape is Fantastic - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Greg K. - Industry: Furniture - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · daily - Reviewed: July 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall, my experience with Onshape has been wonderful, A great product, nice features, and excellent customer support compared to our previous CAD solution #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Cloud native 3D design with automatic saving and excellent version control make Onshape very nice to use for product design. The ability to collaborate on a project in real time is a huge benefit. #### Cons Easier navigation of folder structures in a document could use some work. Accessing the different parts and sub-assemblies in a large assembly can be difficult. --- ### Onshape is the future of CAD - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Bryan L. - Industry: Machinery - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: 1-3 years · daily - Reviewed: July 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. My overall experience has been good. Updates every 3 weeks, knowledgeable support team and a great user community. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The item I like most about Onshape is no loss of data and I can revert as far back in the histroy of the Onshape document in case I took a wrong turn in the design process. #### Cons There is not much that I don't like about Onshape but I would love to see more development in the sheet metal area and I would like to have the ability to open a .dwg in a draft environment in case edits to the 2D would need to be done. --- ### The Best CAD I’ve Used So Far - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Construction - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: 1-3 years · daily - Reviewed: July 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. My overall experience has been extremely positive. After using it intensively for several months on complex natural stone projects, I can honestly say it has become my preferred CAD platform. There is still a learning curve, especially for advanced workflows such as Derived, Composite Parts and Master Models, but the Learning Center is excellent and the support team has been invaluable whenever I got stuck. I also appreciate being able to switch seamlessly between my Mac mini at work and my old Ubuntu laptop at home without worrying about installations or licenses. The main areas I would like to see improved are the management of very large imported models and the integration with 3Dconnexion devices on macOS. Although the SpaceMouse works well for navigation, application detection and command integration in browsers (especially Chromium-based browsers on macOS) could be much more reliable. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Excellent performance and the ability to work from virtually any computer, including my 2012 Ubuntu Linux laptop. The interface feels very familiar to SolidWorks, making the transition easy. The cloud-based workflow, version control and collaboration features are fantastic. The support team is simply outstanding — they are knowledgeable, responsive and genuinely interested in helping users find the best workflow. Onshape is also evolving very quickly, with frequent improvements and new features. #### Cons Very large imported models (especially SAT files with thousands of parts) can become difficult to manage and performance starts to degrade. Better tools for filtering and bulk-selecting parts (by name, appearance, metadata, etc.) would greatly improve workflows like mine. Importing and organizing large architectural models could also be more streamlined. --- ### Onshape, The Future of CAD, CAE, PDM and PLM. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Design - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · daily - Reviewed: July 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Onshape is really good and I would recommend it to everyone in this field, as it makes the design or other CAD processes efficient, it also allows collaboration easy and does not require a lot of computer processing power. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It is cloud based, hence it means you can access your designs everywhere. Since you can access your design anywhere it mean collaboration is very easy. As a cloud software it means you don't have to invest on a very powerful machine. You can share the design with stakeholders outside the company without the risk of loosing your design especially to copying. The advantage to work on multiple streams of the same design and can as well go back to previous changes you did is quite impressive. The release process as well being online makes it very effective and efficient. #### Cons Dislike is a strong term, I think there is always room for improvement I think Onshape can improve when it comes to CFD and static simulation I also think when it comes to assigning the material, the part should take the texture and the colour of the assigned material, this would really help in early visualization. --- ### Great for Product Design - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Zach A. - Industry: Music - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: 1-3 years · monthly - Reviewed: July 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall, Onshape has been an excellent CAD experience. It strikes a strong balance between ease of use and robust functionality, making it suitable for both beginners and experienced CAD users. Its cloud-based platform is a major advantage, providing convenient access across a wide range of devices, while the quality of customer support further enhances the experience. I have very few criticisms, as Onshape consistently meets my needs for both 3D and 2D modeling, particularly for music hardware design. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Easy to use, yet still robust. Onshape offers a great product that is fit for beginners and seasoned CAD designers. The cloud nature of Onshape is a highlight for me, as it makes it easy to access across a broad range of devices. The customer support is also top-notch. #### Cons Honestly I don't have a lot of cons to report. For what I use Onshape for (3D and 2D modeling for music hardware) it excels at. --- ### Great for collaboration and easy document management - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Renewables & Environment - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: 1-3 years · weekly - Reviewed: July 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Since switching to Onshape over a year ago, it has quickly become my go to CAD platform thanks to its clean UI, easy document management, and great training resources and support. I have been very impressed with Onshape's performance, particularly as it is a cloud-based software. I also love that there is a free standard version that I can use for personal projects outside of work. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Document management is convenient in that if you move files around, it does not break assemblies. Revision history is very helpful and being able to revert to an older version or branch from a version is so useful. I love being able to collaborate with others in my organization within a document. I think I also prefer Onshape's mate connector system over the mating features in other CAD software I have used. Onshape support has been efficient and helpful in my experience whenever I have had any issues or questions. #### Cons No feature to be able to bulk export files to have a non-cloud-based backup of files. Performance can be sluggish on occasion. I have not tried using the AI integration much, but when I have, it has not been particularly helpful. --- ### OnShape will impress. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Farming - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · daily - Reviewed: July 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I had heard of OnShape a few years ago and downloaded the app to my phone to briefly check it out. Being 20+ year SolidWorks user, I did pay much attention to it. After getting a chance to interview for a position at a company that was using it, I quickly went through the on-line tutorials in case I had to hit the ground running. I ended up get the position and was able to create over 1850 assemblies, parts, and drawings within a year. I've since created sheet metal parts, machined parts, injection/rotational molds, and 3D printer proto-types. I've created building and site layouts as well. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Ease of use, performance without the high dollar PC, massive assembly mate reduction, and never losing data. #### Cons 3 Party add-ons vs built in features. Would really like to be able to add reference geometry in assemblies. --- ### Works well, wish they hadn't done a bate-n-switch on small users - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Food Production - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: 3-5 years · monthly - Reviewed: October 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It's still super impressive to me to pull up a model on mobile and show friends/customers how it looks, parts that move. The platform is great, just wish it was a little more generous like at the start. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Really, REALLY slick web interface and mobile app. Designing parts and mechanisms from any computer, just wow! Quickly sharing, very good version tracking - it's the real deal. #### Cons They started out positioned very nicely for small-time users, 10 private documents, but switched to "public only" free documents at the same time as they aggressively pushed for subscriptions. --- ### Software that allows engineers to design, not be IT experts - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Marcus E. - Industry: Aviation & Aerospace - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: less than 1 year · daily - Reviewed: July 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall, my experience with Onshape has been great. It has met or exceeded expectations. Onshape has come a long way in the last 5-7 years and it is a robust, professional tool. It is cost effective and easy to manage. Onshape's support is excellent. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The thing that I like most about Onshape is that it is on the cloud. It works with a PC and a Mac and requires very little IT overhead to deploy and maintain. It literally took 3 hours to deploy to the company and have it at parity with Solidworks/Solidworks PDM. #### Cons I wish that Onshape had more direct modeling tools. The ones that it have are on par with other parametric modeling software but I think it would be great if it had more tools like PTC's Creo Elements Direct Modeling. PTC owns both systems so I am hoping that Onshape can utilize some of the power of Creo Elements in the future. --- ### Revolutionary CAD - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Victor C. - Industry: Facilities Services - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: 1-3 years · daily - Reviewed: July 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall we're very happy with, being able to finally implement a pdm tool and increase the collaboration between team members. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It's cloud native, the pdm is native, I don't have to rebuild parts and assemblies all the time. I also can use git like versioning schemes, which is an industry first. #### Cons I guess what it's also it's main strength: being completely run on the cloud, which requires an active internet connection. --- ### Onshape is overall really good, fast and much more better than solidworks - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Industrial Automation - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: 1-3 years · daily - Reviewed: November 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Like we said 2 steps before. Everything is really good. Also the support if you have sth. to discuss. We are really happy to make the change from Solidworks. Also because you have a working pdm inside. And it works... without new interfaces #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros - Cloud option - no CAD PC - Fast, reliable - New functions insertions with easier construction is really nice agains solid works - Much more efficient with new implementations from new versions & updates. We like it a lot. #### Cons Till now we find only some problems with the point that the configurations with versions are some times a bit unuseful. configuration itselfs = perfect, but in combination not good --- ### Onshape Feedback 2025 - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Georgi F. - Industry: Supermarkets - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · daily - Reviewed: December 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I work on onshape from 3 years straight and I can see, the progress that you made on a weekly/ monthly basis and that's great. Thank you! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Onshape has the most needed modeling features and even above. Works smoothly from everywhere it doesn't need to be installed everything is cloud based which is genius. #### Cons Sometimes work is little slower, but this is because of a various reasons and it's fixable I think. The main reasons for me is not enough experience and too large assemblies. --- ### welder/designer - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Farming - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: 1-3 years · weekly - Reviewed: November 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. it works really good for what we do in our business! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros it is simple to operate, the best part is I can log in from anywhere and look up a product and make changes as needed. #### Cons I can't think of anything at this time! --- ### As advertised, Google Docs for 3D design. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: ANDREW D. - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: less than 1 year · daily - Reviewed: February 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Went to Onshape from Autodesk Inventor out of necessity when school switched to remote learning, probably not going to go back. Onshape does nearly everything students would do in Inventor, but they can now access the program anywhere, whereas we only have one computer lab with Inventor. The only thing Inventor has over Onshape is the interactive tutorials that walk students through basic features within the software. Tutorial videos from OnShape aren't really the same, and ability to work offline would also be nice. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros When students share their document with me I can view the document history to make sure it was that student who did all the work or keep track of who did what in a group project. I can help students remotely by making live changes to their document regardless of if it is a part studio or an assembly. We can voice or video chat while we both look live at the same document. #### Cons There is no way to do contact sets, which can make some assemblies not behave the way I would like. Additional joints can be a work-around in some cases, but not all. A way for parts to interact with each other would be a significant upgrade. --- ### constrained surface is great, but can be a bit better. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Design - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · daily - Reviewed: November 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Good. It does what I need it to do. As mentioned above there are small additions that can make it better for me. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Constant improvements like the constrained surface feature. The customer support is great. The cloud based system is awsome. #### Cons The constrained surface feature needs a brush selection tool, or some way to select a region using a maximum deviation. Perhaps look to add a flat surface detector, that finds the average flat plane of a selected surface. Also do the same for cylinders and cones. --- ### A CAD software that is worth the money you pay. - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Construction - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: 1-3 years · daily - Reviewed: March 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall I am very satisfied with the Onshape and will highly recommend it. Also its something which is very user friendly. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Its server based system, which enables access from anywhere, and even with relatively basic hardwares. #### Cons That it cant read IFC data and the sheet metal tool is not fully developed. Its definitely improving but it can be definitely better. --- ### The perfect free CAD software - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Sebastian C. - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: less than 1 year · weekly - Reviewed: April 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall very very good. It works perfectly well, does everything I need it to, syncs over email account as well. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Really a great free platform for CAD work. Has all the necessary features like 3D and 2D design and lots of customization options. Security and customer support are great. Also its free so amazing value for money. #### Cons There are really no cons to Onshape. It works extremely well and has every feature that other CAD softwares have. --- ### Onshape review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: 3-5 years · daily - Reviewed: November 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Product and machine design / improvements / development. I use it as hobby for private design jobs and 3D printing. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Ease of use, mating of components (only one required and very flexible), amazing online tutorials, quick to learn, stability, speed, roll back features, versioning, no expensive hardware is required, free public version available which makes it great for learning and hobby (has some restrictions in high end features like revision management); very nice design configuration options using various tables. #### Cons Some weaknesses are under development, being a fairly new system. Like FEA, material imaging, weldments. --- ### One of the best designing software's you can use for your company or freelancing - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: less than 1 year · daily - Reviewed: November 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered The benefits is that it is not expensive, and the fact that one project with its different parts all combined into one file is something that I really like about the software. That really helps to access drawings much easier for a certain part that you want. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The best thing is that the software is not complicated to learn and with the tutorial vids that are available on the website makes it easier to learn. As well as the supporting team which is always available to respond to the questions is one of the outstanding things someone can get from the service they are paying for. #### Cons There are still some features that I feel like the company has to still work on, like having more options if you want to mate parts in an assembly. As well as making it much more easier to automatically change parts that have been created in-context of the parts you are working on. But with time I still believe this can be the best designing software. --- ### Has the possibility to be the new CAD paradigm like SolidWorks was back in 96 when I left 2D CAD - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Railroad Manufacture - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: less than 1 year · weekly - Reviewed: August 2017 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. No real benefits yet, but hopeful. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Support is responsive, pricing is fine, love the 'pay by the use' subscription format for advanced features seldom used like FEA. Will be a great all around CAD platform for small flexible companies like ours when its fully featured. I'm very interested in seeing what CAD designed without 20 years of baggage will look like when OnShape is mature. For the amateur, hobbyist, and students; Onshape should be the first system they learn on. Back in the day I used to steer these people to Alibre when asked for a 3D CAD recommendation because they likely couldn't justify the high entry price of SolidWorks and its maintenance. My hope is that Onshape gets this market and most of the small businesses like ours. I do recommend that Onshape come up with a lower tier plan between free and the current paid plan that allows really small organizations to grow in their financial commitment over time. Something token priced per user limited to forum support and limited cloud memory for a longer term test drive. This could accelerate Onshapes replacement of SW because small commercial users can start experimenting without the public files. Picture rouge Engineers in a company already paying for SW that might want to show something to management and shouldn't have to pay per month personally to keep a small amount of company files private! #### Cons OnShape is not quite ready for us to use on our bigger projects. Like watching the Matrix movies I'm dying to figure out how they keep 'branches' and the current 'versioning' paradigms and also allow part and assembly configurations that should not require an exact linear history. I really hope they do better than the Matrix movies in closing the loop. If they were more open about when we could expect 'configurations' to be ready, my team might be able to jump to bigger projects sooner. But modeling without 'configurations' is really hard for those of us who grew up on SW. It is the king of all built in work-arounds in my design methodology and the longer I try doing things in Onshape the more I realize configurations are a key requirement of mine. They also need to get conical and cylindrical sheet metal as this is sending me back to SolidWorks on some simple jobs I should have gotten done in Onshape, even without configurations. I have less Pros than Cons to talk about at the moment, but my true feelings are demonstrated by the fact that I'm still investing my time in using the software as much as I can, I'm hoping that this can be our primary CAD system in the next 6 to 24 months. SW didn't have that much to offer by 1998 so OnShape is likely comparable in its advancement along this path. --- ### Onshape Designing - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Beer D. - Industry: Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: 1-3 years · weekly - Reviewed: October 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I am satisfied with the qualities of Onshape, I enjoy making designs, and I enjoy watching them back in the App. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I enjoy working on and inspecting designs made by me and my team. It is easy to start with. #### Cons Sometimes it takes long to load, but this is more a internet issue than an Onshape issue. --- Onshape Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice