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Improvements to Onshape - August 7, 2026
This update introduces a host of new productivity enhancements to better streamline your experience in Onshape. CAD Persistent Center of Mass for Part Studio & Drawings Users can now make the center of mass persistently visible for any part in a Part studio allowing for independent and permanent visibility. This feature…
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Improvements to Onshape - July 17, 2026
This month’s release introduces several time-saving enhancements across modeling, drawings, and data management, designed to improve clarity and accelerate your product development workflow. ONSHAPE LABS Onshape Labs is a new initiative for rapidly developing and testing cutting-edge capabilities, including AI-driven…
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Improvements to Onshape - June 26, 2026
This release brings Asynchronous simulation; submit studies and keep modeling without waiting for results to complete. It also includes improvements to CAD features, rendering tools, manufacturing, and administration. CAD ASYNCHRONOUS SIMULATION A new Results and history table displays all simulation jobs: queued,…
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Improvements to Onshape - June 5, 2026
With summer around the corner, this release focuses on making everyday work more efficient through a set of updates that improve usability, clarity, and overall workflow. CAD SPECIFY LENGTH OF ROUTING CURVE Onshape has introduced a new feature for routing curves that allows users to specify a desired length for spline…
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Improvements to Onshape - April 24, 2026
This update introduces a significant new cloud-to-cloud integration between Onshape PCB Studio and Altium 365, along with enhancements across CAD, MBD, and Data Management. It also includes a comprehensive new course to help you get started with CAM Studio, along with additional updates to the Learning Center. Let us…
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Improvements to Onshape - May 15, 2026
This release introduces new user interface enhancements and workflows across the board to help make your daily work more efficient, plus an illuminating new explicit Light experience for Render Studio Advanced users.CAD MATE CONNECTORS REFERENCING A MATE CONNECTOR Onshape has introduced the ability for Mate Connectors to…
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Improvements to Onshape - March 13, 2026
Has it been another 3 weeks? This update brings a focused set of refinements across CAD, Model-Based Definition, Render Studio and Mobile, delivering greater precision, clarity, and creative control across Onshape workflows. Let's jump right in. CAD URDF EXPORT Onshape exports natively to the Unified Robot Description…
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Improvements to Onshape - April 3, 2026
The latest update to Onshape brings upgraded surfacing tools, new user interface preferences and abilities across the product, plus exciting new machine learning technology being implemented to help you make drawings faster! CAD BEZIER CURVES: SUBDIVISION SPLIT AND TRIM Bezier curve editing is now more predictable. When…
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Improvements to Onshape - January 30th, 2026
Welcome to the new release! We're excited to share with you several different improvements spanning drawings, part and assembly analysis, and rendering - as well as a highly-anticipated sheet metal capability. Let's jump right in. CAD IMPROVEMENTS SHEET METAL LOFT You can now create complex sheet metal parts by connecting…
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Improvements to Onshape - February 20, 2026
This update marks a major milestone with the introduction of Model Based Definition, enabling an entirely new approach to communicating manufacturing intent directly within your 3D models. Alongside MBD, you'll find a host of CAD improvements that streamline your design workflow, and the AI Advisor is now built into…
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Improvements to Onshape - January 9th, 2026
Happy New Year, Onshape community! Last year brought 17 new Onshape releases, with countless new features and improvements. We hope you have found them beneficial to your designs and workflows every day. But now is hardly the time to reflect on what we have accomplished together - instead, we are excited to start off the…
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Improvements to Onshape - December 12, 2025
Happy holidays from Onshape! The last official Onshape release of 2025 offers some highly requested goodies, including robust methods for displaying hole quantities on drawings, never before seen realism with the Volume entity in Render Studio Advanced, and CAM Studio usability improvements. DRAWINGS QUANTITY FOR HOLE…
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Improvements to Onshape - November 21, 2025
This update brings new CAD and Simulation tools, multiple improvements to Drawings, new appearance options for Render Studio Advanced, and expanded collaboration with Onshape Enterprise users with the all new Slack connection! CAD DYNAMIC SUPPRESSION Create logical expressions to determine when a feature should be…
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Improvements to Onshape - October 31st, 2025
Happy Halloween! This release delivers plenty of treats across CAD, CAM, Render Studio, and Data Management. Think faster releases, cleaner task workflows, smarter import options, and polished visuals that make your design life a little less scary. DRAWINGS IMPROVEMENTS REFER TO CUT LIST DATA ON CALLOUTS Cut list data can…
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Improvements to Onshape - October 10, 2025
This Onshape update delivers major productivity and collaboration enhancements across the platform — from configurable Variable Studios and improved simulation performance to new enterprise-level security and sharing options. You’ll also find refined drawing tools and UI improvements in CAM and Render Studio. Plus,…
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Improvements to Onshape - September 19th, 2025
This release introduces the powerful new Assembly Mirror tool, connection to Arena PLM Enterprise for AWS GovCloud with Onshape for Government as well as a number of user interface, drawings and performance improvements. CAD IMPROVEMENTS ASSEMBLY MIRROR Mirror parts and subassemblies with flexible strategies for symmetric…
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Improvements to Onshape - August 29th, 2025
This update to Onshape delivers groundbreaking improvements to parametric design intent with Query Variables in Part Studios. It also includes highly requested drawing enhancements and a new Notes panel to capture and share design context more clearly. CAD IMPROVEMENTS QUERY VARIABLES The new Query variable tool allows you…
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Improvements to Onshape - August 7th, 2025
It's Thursday and we have a release chock full of goodies. This release contains a wide variety of features and improvements to usability, Configurations, Drawings, Render Studio, and more. Let's dive right in! CAD IMPROVEMENTS EDIT SKETCH PATTERN In sketch patterns, such as linear and circular patterns, you can now add…
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Improvements to Onshape - July 18th, 2025
Welcome to the new release! This release contains a wide variety of features and improvements touching virtually all areas of the product: Configurations, Assemblies, Surfacing, Drawings, Data Management, as well as CAM and Render Studio! We hope there's something out there for everyone! CAD IMPROVEMENTS CONFIGURATION…
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Improvements to Onshape - June 6th, 2025
It's been three weeks and we are back again with an exciting new update. It includes two of our most popular requests and a number of quality of life improvements. Let's dig in. CAD IMPROVEMENTS WIDTH MATE You will find a new Width mate in Onshape assemblies. This new mate makes centering parts in the assembly easier than…
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Improvements to Onshape - May 16th, 2025
This is the second of two releases to focus on stability and performance, but we have still managed to find the time to throw in some super cool and highly requested new features. VISUALIZATION ISOLATE AND MAKE TRANSPARENT The Isolate and Make transparent tools now include a slider to adjust transparency. An option to…
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Improvements to Onshape - March 13th, 2025
With our fourth release of 2025, we've got some wonderful improvements in a variety of different areas. Let's have a look. CAD IMPROVEMENTS COSMETIC THREADS (3D) When defining a thread using the Hole feature, or External thread feature, cosmetic threads are rendered on-screen in the modeling environment.…
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Improvements to Onshape - January 31st, 2025
The second update of 2025 introduces integrated cloud-native CAM, sheet metal forms, and a raft of improvements to drawings. CAM STUDIO (BETA) CAM Studio is now available to all Onshape Professional and Enterprise commercial subscribers. https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/u0alsll49b PART STUDIOS SHEET METAL FORM You can now…
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Improvements to Onshape - December 13th, 2024
This is the last update for 2024, but we'll be back with a bang in 2025! On behalf of PTC and the entire Onshape team, I would like to wish all our users everywhere an enjoyable and relaxing holiday season. PART STUDIOS CURVE APPROXIMATION The approximation toolset from the Edit curve feature is now available in other…
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Improvements to Onshape - September 20th, 2024
We're more than halfway done with the month of September, and due for another Onshape release. Let's take a look at some new features. GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS DERIVED PRESERVES ACTIVE SHEET METAL MODELS The Derived tool includes a new option to Preserve active sheet metal models. Selecting this option maintains the bend table…
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Improvements to Onshape - July 19th, 2024
We are officially in the second half of the year, and it's only going to get more exciting from here! This update is big, and includes some highly-requested features, improvements to recently-released features, and improvements we know many will appreciate. We hope you enjoy them. GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS DARK MODE (BETA)…
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Improvements to Onshape - August 29th, 2024
It has only been 17 days since our last release, and we are back with another one. This update includes a long list of improvements in areas like assemblies, drawings, and more. Let's dive in. ASSEMBLY IMPROVEMENTS LOCK/FOLLOW SUBASSEMBLY You can now lock the position of a subassembly within a top-level assembly. When…