Onshape by PTC

05/28/2026

Engineers aren’t always at their desks – they’re on the shop floor or at a trade show. If your CAD system still depends on specific machines, locations, or file sharing, it’s slowing decisions, collaboration, and production.

Here are 3 signs it’s holding your team back:

Three indicators that file-based CAD is limiting distributed engineering teams with restricted access, hardware lock-in, and inefficient supplier collaboration.

05/26/2026

Exporting released items one by one from a release package?

There’s a faster way. In Onshape, activate your version, open the Tab Manager, and use the Released filter to instantly find and bulk export all your parts, drawings, PDFs and assemblies at once. Learn more in this Tech Tip -->http://onshp.co/CT

05/25/2026

Onshape in Athens. A Home Depot fridge. The edge of a national forest. A train. On the bus.

Engineers don't wait for the perfect setup.

Here are some of our favorite places people have opened Onshape:

🏛️ "I found a public doc of the Parthenon and couldn't help comparing it to the real one. The Parthenon and Onshape are 2,459 years apart." - Paul Premakumar

🛒 "One day I was at the Home Depot waiting in line for the saw, when I saw a fridge with a touchscreen with Chrome - so I signed in, then hopped on the same document on my iPhone. I claimed myself the world's first 'appliance to mobile phone 3D CAD design review.' This was November 13, 2016." - Alex Arevalo

🌲 "From the bed of my truck at the edge of the Nicolet National Forest during the Midwest Bikepacking Summit. Miraculously had a bar or two to create a phone hotspot - in follow mode!" - Nick Holzem

🚆 On the train in Germany. - Martin Meigassner

🚌 On the MBTA in Boston - Isaiah Jones

Where's the most unexpected place you've opened Onshape?

05/22/2026

🤯 4,000 engineering hours. €120,000 saved annually, €50,000 alone on hardware. That's what Blocks Technology unlocked after switching from SOLIDWORKS to Onshape. Their search for a modern CAD+PDM system started with a common bottleneck: managing complex assemblies on hardware that couldn't keep up.

As a forward-thinking startup on a mission to make industrial-scale 3D printing more accessible, slow tools were working against their own goals. In the words of their CEO: "Onshape provides enterprise-level capabilities without enterprise-level complexity or cost."

Full story: http://onshp.co/CP

05/22/2026

🆕 in drawings: hatch halos that help annotations stay visible over complex patterns.

05/21/2026

Coco Robotics is scaling a delivery robot globally. Their design process runs on a single source of truth that’s tightly connected, always current – powered by Onshape and Arena:

How the Coco Robotics team uses PTC’s Onshape and Arena to manage design data, streamline releases, and scale globally without sacrificing quality.

05/19/2026

Optimize the performance of large assemblies by referencing rigid or locked subassemblies, making Onshape assemblies faster and easier to navigate. Learn how → http://onshp.co/CK

05/18/2026

✨ Onshape’s latest release is here. Highlights include Mate Connectors Referencing a Mate Connector, Explicit Lights in Render Studio Advanced, expanded URDF export, a redesigned CAM Setup dialog, and more workflow improvements across the platform. Get all the details: http://onshp.co/CJ

05/15/2026

Seen this? ✅ Now you can move multiple control points at once using a precisely positioned triad. This enables cleaner, more consistent edits with fewer steps and greater control, especially for complex routing geometry.

05/14/2026

🤯 If you want to hear a mechanical engineer groan, just whisper three letters: 𝗣𝗗𝗠.

From ghost check-outs to VPN workarounds, traditional PDM software is often the cause for teeth grinding and neck tension. We rounded up 5 reasons engineers hate PDM, and how Onshape makes CAD work feel a lot less stressful:

05/12/2026

Three quick ways to select covered geometry in Onshape: Y to hide, Shift T for transparency, and ` for Select other. Save this for your next messy assembly → http://onshp.co/CE