Improvements to Onshape - October 10, 2025

The enterprise currently bears the cost of the seats (Full or Light) if you want "outside" help - you need to provide a Full Seat with "Guest" access if you need an external person to do work (create geometry). You can assign a Light guest seat if you only need them to review, export, or even approve Releases (your contractor, customer or vendor could have a light guest seat and be part of the approval chain for Revision control).

Guest access ensures they only have access to documents explicitly shared with them (and nothing else) but they can participate in all design functions, release management and export rules etc.

Having a way to provide access to your data from outside the Enterprise would reduce the cost of seats for the Enterprise - or in some cases just speed up the ability to engage. Procurement cycles can mean that although it's very fast to assign a license to a new person - it can be very slow to buy that license if you don't already have extra ones.