Investing in Onshape's Foundation: Focus on Stability and Performance for the Next Two Releases

Vajrang_Parvate

Hello Onshape Community,

We have an important update about our upcoming releases. As you know, we've been committed to delivering new features and improvements every three weeks, and we greatly appreciate your enthusiasm and feedback. In just the past 6 or so months, we have released:

• Onshape AI Advisor
• Onshape Government for ITAR/EAR needs
• CAM Studio
• Powerful core modeling enhancements such as: constrained surfaces, routing curve, edit curve, sketch constraints manager, curve approximation, loft/boundary surface improvements, flatten surfaces, many sheet metal enhancements, ...
• FeatureScript performance and usability enhancements to make it easier and faster to create custom features
• A completely re-architected Render Studio, and many workflow improvements following the re-architecture
• A great leap forward in Drawings: Constrained sketching, support for many new types of drawing views, automatic centermarks, datum attachments, inspection tables, …
• Many UX and quality of life improvements: universal keyboard shortcuts, dark mode, cosmetic threads, reference repair, config parameter visibility, Product Structure View, …
• Product areas like Data and Release Management, and Enterprise Analytics
• And of course, many performance improvements in multiple areas of the product

We've also been listening closely to your feedback regarding performance, robustness, and addressing issues. To ensure Onshape continues to be a stable and reliable platform for your critical design work, we've made the strategic decision to dedicate the next two releases entirely to addressing technical debt and improving the overall user experience.

What does this mean?

Over the next two Onshape releases, we will be turning our attention to:

• Addressing reported issues: prioritizing those that cause the most significant disruptions to your workflows
• Architectural improvements: making core changes in several areas that will enable us to deliver even more powerful and innovative features in future releases
• Technical Debt: Look closer at areas of the product that are in need of refactoring and can benefit internal workflows for teams such as QA, Support, Documentation and Technical Operations

Why are we doing this?

We believe that investing in Onshape's foundation is essential for its long-term health and your continued success. By addressing these underlying areas, we're not just fixing user-reported issues; we're strengthening the core of Onshape to create a more stable and efficient platform that will empower you to design with greater confidence.

What to expect in the upcoming releases:

• A somewhat leaner list of feature enhancements (as listed in the What’s New posts)
• But a longer changelog that will list all the details highlighting the specific issues and performance improvements implemented
• We'll share selected "behind-the-scenes" technical updates to give you insight into the work done

We understand that you may be eager for new features, and we want to assure you that this is a temporary shift in focus. We are committed to returning to our regular cadence of feature releases after these two foundational releases.

We value your feedback and appreciate your understanding as we work to make Onshape even better and thank you for being part of the Onshape community.

Vajrang Parvate

SVP, Onshape Product and R&D

adrian_vlzkz

eric_pesty

More companies need to do this! This reminds me of a certain "other" CAD company where some users where advocating for one year with zero new features and just bug fixes instead but it never happened…
Looking forward to "behind the scenes" peek as well!

robert_stiles

If this paves the way for some powerful configuration logic controls (suppression by expression, between tables etc. ) we are happy…

victor_mendoza099

I’m sure that these will be the best updates

Excellent shift !!!