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Onshape for startups?
michael3424
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I recently came across this link for an application to Onshape for startups and have some questions.
- Can current users of the free plan apply?
- What revenue limits apply?
- Is there a time limit; in other words is the Startup plan limited to a specific period of time?
- Is there a limit to private user documents?
- If the Startup plan is terminated by either party, what happens to the documents developed under that plan?
I am retired but do a small amount of side jobs for pay, mostly to design prototypes and experimental equipment that I will often fabricate. At present, I use Alibre Expert for that work and just use Onshape for my hobby-related work and I'd really rather use Onshape for both, so I'm interested in exploring the Startup Plan. To be honest, chances are my little "business" will never generate enpugh revenue to justify even the Standard Plan. I could justify $400-600 per year for a Junior Standard Plan, but Onshape has indicated in the past that they are not interested in that market and I can appreciate their reasoning for that decision. Just mentioning it here to demonstrate that I am willing to pay something. I really do appreciate having access to the free plan.
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It's 6 months of the free Professional plan, which is the step up from the Standard plan. I've had both the Standard and Professional plan at my dayjob, and the main difference between the two is formal revision control, and the add-ons such as rendering, pcb studio, CAM (coming), and FEA. The modeling/assembly/drawing/versioning/branching is exactly the same (and same as the free hobby version).
After the 6 months are up, your documents stay private, but you can't edit them. You can only view them.
To edit them at that point, you have to pay, on either the Basic or the Professional plan.
Or, you can transfer ownership of each document to your free hobby account. When you do that, they stay private, and view only (even though they are in your free account). Once you make them public, you can then edit them.
Thanks - that makes sense for a startup with a presumably increasing revenue stream that will eventually justify the Standard or Professional plans, but not for a user like me.