#TraditionalCADsucks

sebastian_glanzner

To the individual downvoting my ChatGPT posts: Is it ChatGPT you're not fond of, or do you feel the content isn't amusing enough? I'd appreciate any feedback

john_mcclary

But.. What if thoes are all true.... 

john_mcclary

sebastian_glanzner said:

To the individual downvoting my ChatGPT posts: Is it ChatGPT you're not fond of, or do you feel the content isn't amusing enough? I'd appreciate any feedback

Ouch, 4 more down votes...
Some people are just toxic to AI

NeilCooke

I’m sure they are only down voting because you mentioned it!

john_mcclary

Well, it is finally happening... after many years of proving Onshape's worth to everyone here. 
Our company is moving to Onshape as our primary cad system!

Don't worry though, I'm training them right  
You know.. the important things

Ste_Wilson

@john_mcclary yay, but also boo. I always looked forward to a smile when you updated this thread!

john_mcclary

Oh don't worry, we still have need of SW for a bit. So, my next task is to upgrade our server so we can pay thousands of dollars to REMOVE licenses from SW... Since we would need to switch to a floating license model. 

john_mcclary

It's been nice not using SW for a while.

It looks like SW has taken notice lol.

Nice try y'all, but It's going to take a lot more than a puppy to get me away from Onshape!

john_mcclary

More reasons to love Onshape

One of our AutoCAD LT users was not able to use the software for more than 2 minutes at a time before it would say her license is invalid.
Then kick her out.

I reached out for help from them, since it's happened to that user at least 3 times before. I figure there is just something weird going on with her account.

They fix it 5 days later, after we contacted them 2 more times.
(It sounds like her auto-update wasn't working, so she had to go run that app...) 
2 minutes of work on their end.

Now today I get this from our rep asking if we want to purchase a tech support seat... F U
I thought that was the whole point behind these third-party resellers!
Now AutoCAD has moved purchasing and upgrading accounts to a self-serve model online. So, WTF is the point of these guys anymore!

We've had an account with them for 20 years, and we asked for help twice... The last time I called them was back in 2010...




First of all we have 5 seats of LT... Second of all, Holy crap!

Meanwhile in Onshape, we had two users that were trying to open a BOM on their models at the same time. It was critical since they are releasing those jobs and need to access all the BOM info for purchasing and manufacturing.
We all watched through the next day or so as at least 3 or 4 different Techs (that I saw) were bouncing in and out of both documents. They finally found a bug and fixed those documents a couple hours after that. Now that's what dedication to your product and customers looks like!

You're the G.O.A.T. Onshape Team!

S1mon

I just saw the top What's New for SWX 2025, and it's funny some of the things on the list which Onshape has had for a while (multi-body filleting, color-coding of sketches). It also reminds me that instead of waiting a year for new stuff, every few Fridays we get new features which can be just as exciting.

https://www.engineersrule.com/20-things-to-look-forward-to-in-solidworks-2025/

Oh and when new stuff comes out for Onshape, there's no IT overhead to get everyone's machine updated, and you don't need to question if your partners are going to be on the latest release either.

john_mcclary

We are about to update from SW2023 to 2024 (Since you always have to wait for 3 service packs before you get to actually try the 'current version' of solidworks without having crippling day 1 bugs)

Solidarity: