Onshape

“onshape is pretty respectable, and the free offering is decent”

“I've had great success designing durable objects using the sheet metal modeler in OnShape”

“even after onshape shafted everyone which should have highlighted the risks”

“it's cloud based so you can't run it with a poor connection or no connection”

“It's a professional system from the founders of Solidworks that competes with all the top CAD tools.”

“Learning to make simple parts in onshape is pretty darn easy (and fun).”

“Like Adobe's 'creative' software and Onshape, they are working as hard as possible to make YOU pay more to have less.”

“too undocumented and proprietary to be of much use”

“It seems pretty powerful so far and I've not found anything I can't do with it.”

“I'll do it in Onshape rather than booting up my Windows VM”

“I'm often surprised how good it is at matching up faces after a single operation”

“Between that and FreeCad (which recently got a usability update) I can probably kick AutoCad/Fusion360 to the curb.”

“Depending on your needs, Onshape could be a good portable option since it runs in a browser.”

“OnShape is pretty approachable, and has lots of good tutorial videos.”

“viewport manipulation behaves in a very similar way to onshape which feels very natural to me”

“Onshape was built with versioning and diffing as a first class capability.”

“the insight that OnShape got right is that these scripts automatically become available as possible nodes within the history-based modeller”

“Learn on something more feature-complete and with a less idiosyncratic UI, like Onshape”

“The free tier is identical to the standard tier except you can not create private documents”

“their algorithms are better and break down in much more complex models than FreeCAD”

“OnShape has been a godsend, and keeping it free for open designs is one of the better ethical stances to take.”

“requires an account and internet connection because it streams to your browser”

“The licensing cost has a few more digits than GitHub ever did.”

“The user interface and documentation are stellar and you don't need to install anything to get started.”

“after 10+ years with SolidWorks I switched to OnShape. A small learning curve but now I enjoy it just as much.”

“PTC OnShape, Siemens Solid Edge, Autodesk Fusion) have usable free tiers available.”

“learned used ACAD 3D, Inventor, Pro-E, Solidworks, Fusion 360, Onshape, Siemens NX”

“onshape is nice feature-wise but then you're just trusting a different group”

“The multi-user editing is first class and personally I find the user interface more intuitive”

“a subscription that assumes I have a corporate expense account makes it not viable”

“One of the reasons that I switched to OnShape recently is that I can run it on my MacBook.”

“It's free to use provided that you're okay with your design being public.”

“I found Fusion 360 and Onshape very intuitive to learn.”

“modern CAD software, like Onshape or Fusion 360 is quite easy to learn”

“the functions, constraints and geometry kernel weren't as powerful as onshape, which I've used a bit”

“It's also pricey, the first paid tier is $1500/year”

“It feels extremely sluggish, probably because it's running on the browser.”

“they both require a phone number and make all of your files public”

“has blown me away with its browser interface and how quick it all loads”

“the parametric modeling system used in fusion and onshape clicked with me and i really enjoy using them”