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I passed this over just yesterday and went with a fusion 360 demo but you’ve convinced me to give it a shot. I’ve been having issues with my cheap-ish peristal

I passed this over just yesterday and went with a fusion 360 demo but you’ve convinced me to give it a shot. I’ve been having issues with my cheap-ish peristaltic pumps and realized I’d either need to spend way too much or build/3d print something myself in order to resolve the issues. The cloud aspect of fusion seriously kills my enthusiasm for it.

elcritch 4y ago
Note that OnShape is pure cloud (web app) if I understand it correctly -- so perhaps it provides the best parts of a web native app too. The Fusion 360 move to cloud appear to be purely aimed at justifying forcing a subscription model for Fusion stuff. Though the monthly price for hobbyist isn't half bad.
- nraynaud 4y ago
  Don’t believe the hype, onshape is like a Cad software on Citrix. It’s not spreading the cost of computing a complex fillet over hundreds of machines (or even better, running the same operation in the browser and the cloud and letting the fastest one win). They spin one EC2 for you. So you really don’t get any benefit from the cloud.
  - BWStearns 4y ago
    I don’t need a beefy windows machine in addition to my MBP for my CAD work so there’s the cross platform/consistent performance benefit.
    - iancmceachern 4y ago
      A lot of people have pretty good success running solidworks in wind on a mac.
  - navane 4y ago
    the cloud benefit is in the version control, branching, merging, multiplayer, never having to send files, always working in the same version as everyone else. It's in everything communication, not in quickly calculating a fillet. I also got very sad when I learned it was bought by PTC.
015a 4y ago
I'd also recommend giving Shapr3D a try. Its an extremely nice up-and-coming CAD suite. Very little cloud integration as well (they only very recently added model syncing to your account). Their lineage is definitely as an iPad app, but its been ported with perfect fidelity to MacOS and Windows, and I think that touch-first small-screen lineage has forced them to produce a tool that's so quick and productive to just pick up and get to modeling. Its also built on Siemens Parasolid, same as SolidWorks and OnShape. [1] https://www.shapr3d.com/ https://www.shapr3d.com/
- steve_adams_86 4y ago
  Bizarre, does this mean Shapr has parametrics now? I tried it last year and it didn’t offer that, so I’ve ignored it since. I loved the UI and actually liked the iPad experience too. Maybe it’s time to give it another chance! Thanks for the tip. I have to say, my biggest hesitation about these kinds of software is knowing anything I create is inevitably trapped behind a subscription. $50/month to maintain access to my designs is really steep! I suppose I can output static models, but to use parametric features, I’ll always need to be subscribed.

elcritch 4y ago

Note that OnShape is pure cloud (web app) if I understand it correctly -- so perhaps it provides the best parts of a web native app too. The Fusion 360 move to cloud appear to be purely aimed at justifying forcing a subscription model for Fusion stuff. Though the monthly price for hobbyist isn't half bad.

nraynaud 4y ago
Don’t believe the hype, onshape is like a Cad software on Citrix. It’s not spreading the cost of computing a complex fillet over hundreds of machines (or even better, running the same operation in the browser and the cloud and letting the fastest one win). They spin one EC2 for you. So you really don’t get any benefit from the cloud.
- BWStearns 4y ago
  I don’t need a beefy windows machine in addition to my MBP for my CAD work so there’s the cross platform/consistent performance benefit.
  - iancmceachern 4y ago
    A lot of people have pretty good success running solidworks in wind on a mac.
- navane 4y ago
  the cloud benefit is in the version control, branching, merging, multiplayer, never having to send files, always working in the same version as everyone else. It's in everything communication, not in quickly calculating a fillet. I also got very sad when I learned it was bought by PTC.

015a 4y ago

I'd also recommend giving Shapr3D a try. Its an extremely nice up-and-coming CAD suite. Very little cloud integration as well (they only very recently added model syncing to your account). Their lineage is definitely as an iPad app, but its been ported with perfect fidelity to MacOS and Windows, and I think that touch-first small-screen lineage has forced them to produce a tool that's so quick and productive to just pick up and get to modeling. Its also built on Siemens Parasolid, same as SolidWorks and OnShape. [1] https://www.shapr3d.com/ https://www.shapr3d.com/

steve_adams_86 4y ago
Bizarre, does this mean Shapr has parametrics now? I tried it last year and it didn’t offer that, so I’ve ignored it since. I loved the UI and actually liked the iPad experience too. Maybe it’s time to give it another chance! Thanks for the tip. I have to say, my biggest hesitation about these kinds of software is knowing anything I create is inevitably trapped behind a subscription. $50/month to maintain access to my designs is really steep! I suppose I can output static models, but to use parametric features, I’ll always need to be subscribed.