teaching

Hi, I am a retired teacher and have developed a series of instructional projects for teaching Onshape in the classroom or online. Each project has a free downloadable instruction sheet with dimensioned drawings and link to step by step videos. There are projects for making parts, assemblies and animations. Projects like a…

Hi everyone! We have been working on some updates to Intro to CAD for clarity and usability and are happy to announce it is ready for this school year! If you already have copies of the documents, you WILL want to go in and make new ones. One of these updates was for the scavenger hunt and the parts won't all come through…

Good Morning, I was looking into switching my classes from AutoCAD to using OnShape and I was curious if I were to do that do I need to have my own projects and drawings to teach from or is this already setup to do that. Currently I am teaching using AutoCAD 2024 in a classroom environment. Our classes run 2hrs and 42 mins…

I've been considering teaching Onshape for a while, and I'm curious to know what opportunities are available. I'm confident in my abilities, having already taught some of my colleagues, especially new hires, and I'm eager to share my knowledge with a wider audience. I'd appreciate any guidance on potential avenues for…

I teach in a secondary school and have been trying to introduce Onshape to my students. I can get a class of student all signed up with their own logins but when it comes to them creating a drawing the majority of student get the blue loading circle and told the refresh the browser. We have looked into the possibility of…

OnShape has very good videos that explain how things work and great slide instructions that walk you through drawings but I don't see many short tutorials on how to build simple, practical things. I teach at the high school level and transfering from Fusion360 to OnShape and I havent found many resources on YouTube that…

Hi Everyone! I'm excited to announce that there is a new learning pathway in the Learning Center for instructors with the Education Enterprise plan. This course will help you setup and get started with your new Education Enterprise. Check it out here! If you don't already have an Education Enterprise and are interested,…

Hi Everyone! Here's the next idea in our series of lessons that the PTC Academic team wants to share. We'd love to hear any feedback that you might have. Feel free to share any lessons that you have created or transitioned to Onshape! Curriculum Idea: Capstone Design Project Topic area: Next Gen Transportation/ Electric…

Educators, we are excited to bring you a new education plan: Onshape Education Enterprise It’s a plan built specifically for schools and universities that wish to give large groups of their students access to CAD in the same way that a product development company would want an enterprise account for multiple users across…