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Nitty Gritty details of free plan.
james_mcpherson11762
Member Posts: 26 ✭✭
Firstly: I want to pay for Onshape. I'm a maker and can't justify the pro-plan. I'm no pro.
So Im stuck with the 100mb free plan.
What at happens when I create a new private document with 99mb in my private documents? Does my ability to work stop when 100mb is reached?
What happens IN TOTAL if you have exceeded 100mb in your 10 files(if that is possible)? Can I still edit them?
When I'm over my limit, how does Onshape decide what to delete?
-Jim
So Im stuck with the 100mb free plan.
What at happens when I create a new private document with 99mb in my private documents? Does my ability to work stop when 100mb is reached?
What happens IN TOTAL if you have exceeded 100mb in your 10 files(if that is possible)? Can I still edit them?
When I'm over my limit, how does Onshape decide what to delete?
-Jim
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Alex
That is all well and good if you never want to make any changes to those parts in the future. When you export a part you loose the history and if you load it back into OS you can't go back and edit it. It is just a dumb part.
Dave
Ariel, WA
Has (or will) document activation/inactivation been removed from the free plan?
John
I'm curious why you don't make your work public? Why is privacy such a big deal?
I have to have privacy due to NDA's.
One part of @james_mcpherson11762 question remains unanswered: If you have 7 private documents and in the middle of modeling you reach 100mb private limit - what happens?
The words "active" and "inactive" do not appear in either of the places cited.
The opening page makes it look as though the future deal is equal or better "value" in every respect, than the present deal.
The FAQ details the future deal only, with no reference to the present free plan, and certainly does not address "what has been removed".
@3dcad you are exactly right... No answer yet to what happens when you exceed 100mb while using a private document. This is a very broad reaching question given how many individual parts can go in one document.
-Jim
Hopefully, at some point in the future Onshape will have a business case for offering a middle tier - I'd much rather give you guys that money than continue giving it to GeoMagic.
-Jim
So what happens when you reach 5gb? Or in other words, can there be a situation that free users cad just freeze and can't create more features - or do you just receive email that you have reached the limit and should think about going pro?
Currently there is no mechanism within Onshape that will cause the CAD to freeze. But to be clear - the private data limit of the Free Plan is 100MB. Once a person exceeds the private data limit he/she is expected to upgrade to the Professional Plan.
Thanks for clarification.
I think I have reached my 100mb limit talking about plans and limits
I rest my case.
I personally think this is an irrelevant red herring, in the Onshape context.
It seems to me that Onshape are limiting the free storage not because of what storage costs them, but because of what CAD development costs them.
They do not recover those development costs in ANY other way than from Pro users, so it does not make sense for them to continue to offer almost the same convenience and capacity to free users as to Pro.
-Jim
Hi James
You're account will not be disabled if you go over 100mb. I think we covered this point in multiple posts.
Darren
Like I said, I wish Onshape the best. I wish you'd let me pay you.
-Jim
Hey James, I completely understand. I think it may be confusing because of the lack of hard-coded consequences. But, I think you would agree with our priorities. We want to focus development on meaningful CAD functionality, rather than mechanisms to enforce limits.
I love the fact that you want to pay us, and I believe if you spend a large part of you life designing you'll soon come to the conclusion that our Profession Plan is well worth the price.
Darren
-C
The Free Plan is for hobbyists/students. You have 5GB for public documents and can work on up to 10 private documents, with 100mb of owned private data.
I have literally just started investigating some of the latest tools for CAD design, notably Onshape and Fusion 360. I like both. They have a lot of similarities. The thing, at this point, which gives Fusion 360 a major heads up over Onshape is the "enthusiast/startup" license, which is free. No strings attached, no storage limits, no project limits, totally free.
Knowing Autodesk, I realize that this free license will eventually be rescinded, but the first company to achieve critical user mass will win out. Look at what happened with SketchUp. Prior to Google giving it away, few people had heard about it, much less paid for it. It's pretty much defacto now even though it's really a poor modeling application.
I've been a SolidWorks user since '95. Currently my employer generously pays my subscription fees, but in the not too distant future, I'm planning on retiring from my day job and want to have a fully capable 3D modeling app available for my personal use. I am willing to pay for that app, but it would have to be far less than my SolidWorks subscription for it to make any sense. At $100/month, I'll maintain my SolidWorks license. Frankly at $50 a month, I would still maintain my SolidWorks license.
Will Onshape be that app? It's not likely, based on the very loosely defined limits of the free plan.
I encourage Onshape to revisit this strategy and to try to find a balance that allows Onshaps sufficient revenues without driving away the absolutely huge amateur user base that is emerging and is hungry for tools to design stuff to print with their 3D printer. Myself included.
Chris
I can understand your reason for secrecy based on your hobby/craft.
For me, I spend a good part of my day trying to get engineers to review my private designs and find it ironic that we're on both ends of the spectrum.
A common mistake I see is that new users create a new document for everything instead of using a new part studio inside a document. One guy had 4 bracket documents and suggested he have 1 document with 4 brackets inside. Maybe you can have 1 document called silencers with your family of silencers in that document. Guns is another document. Hallow point ballistics in another document. That's only 3 documents.
I think the free program is generous and great idea. I have a high school kid, an assembler and my son using onshape's free license. Without this option they wouldn't have access to CAD and can't learn. So far it's working, I'm sharing models with them and privacy isn't an issue because onshape allows for this.
I think onshape's pricing is reasonable, but I sold pro/e licenses for $25,000 so maybe I'm not a judge of this value. I have many people that can't get access to Solidworks, Inventor or Pro/e to learn CAD and onshape's ease to try/learn is a great thing.
Sorry it doesn't work for you, it works for me,
It seems the gap is just too big for those of us who are not a full blown business, but larger than a home hobbyist.
One thing I am still a bit hazy on is the 100mb per private document or for total of all the private documents.
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The latter