I am a mechanical engineer and CAD user (never worked for a CAD software company).
I second this feeling. OnShape was founded by the original creators of SolidWorks before it was bought by Dassault. It showed great promise in being efficient, powerful, user friendly, built in PLM (SCM for CAD basically) and surprisingly low cost. Compare hundreds a year for a fully loaded OnShape seat subscription to about 20k/yr/seat we paid for CATIA and some bells and whistles (PLM, FEA, etc).
The day OnShape was bought was PTC/Siemens is quite comparable to me, to the HN feeling when Adobe recently announced the purchase of Figma.
Exactly, it's like when eagle was bought by autodesk. Also to add to this, solidworks can be had for ~4k for a perpetual license and ~1300 a year after that for maintenance. So it sits right between onshape and stuff like catia cost wise.
I second this feeling. OnShape was founded by the original creators of SolidWorks before it was bought by Dassault. It showed great promise in being efficient, powerful, user friendly, built in PLM (SCM for CAD basically) and surprisingly low cost. Compare hundreds a year for a fully loaded OnShape seat subscription to about 20k/yr/seat we paid for CATIA and some bells and whistles (PLM, FEA, etc).
The day OnShape was bought was PTC/Siemens is quite comparable to me, to the HN feeling when Adobe recently announced the purchase of Figma.