Sheet Metal

cornelius_jacobus

Hi Everyone. I am new to Onshape. We are a small startup and am currently evaluating/considering Onshape as our primary CAD solution. Our designers come from a SolidWorks environment and it seems that to transition to Onshape will not be too difficult. In the line of work we do, sheetmetal design makes up about 50% of our workload. 
It seems that sheetmetal features is currently missing from Onshape. From some forums I understand that OS is working tirelessly to implement such features. Can anyone give me an update as to an expected roll-out date for this?
Having sheetmetal features similar or better than SolidWorks is a crucial point in our evaluation process. If it is not present, we cannot even consider Onshape.
I really hope that I have not overlooked or misunderstood something.
Kind Regards

brucebartlett

Hi Cornelius, great that you are considering Onshape as your primary CAD tool, I am sure you will have a far lower cost overall and well as increased design speed with the use of the part studio's and high level mates, when I move back to traditional CAD now after using Onshape I crave the Onshape tool's. However there are still quite a few holes that need to be filled that may limit your designer's depending on the outputs expected, sheet metal being biggest one followed by drawing functionality. New releases are rolling out every 3 week's or so and a lot of these area's which are lacking are being quickly filled. I know they are actively working on sheetmetal and they understand how important it is, I'd like to think we will see this released soon but will have to wait and see. 

Not sure if you can wait maybe even a few month's (that's my hope) to see what Onshape deliver on sheetmetal.

brucebartlett

Hi Cornelius, great that you are considering Onshape as your primary CAD tool, I am sure you will have a far lower cost overall and well as increased design speed with the use of the part studio's and high level mates, when I move back to traditional CAD now after using Onshape I crave the Onshape tool's. However there are still quite a few holes that need to be filled that may limit your designer's depending on the outputs expected, sheet metal being biggest one followed by drawing functionality. New releases are rolling out every 3 week's or so and a lot of these area's which are lacking are being quickly filled. I know they are actively working on sheetmetal and they understand how important it is, I'd like to think we will see this released soon but will have to wait and see. 

Not sure if you can wait maybe even a few month's (that's my hope) to see what Onshape deliver on sheetmetal.

justin_hough563

Any updated information/progress on a sheet metal tool for OnShape?

ilya_baran

Lots of progress.  Coming real soon now -- just a little more patience.

owen_sparks

ilya_baran said:

Lots of progress.  Coming real soon now -- just a little more patience.

You know I think I heard @cody_armstrong actually LOL when asked in this week's webinar if customers were expected to write their own sheet metal tools in FS.

I have confidence that you guys have great things under development and can't wait t see what you've come up with.

Happy coding.

Owen S.