I never really cared for onshape/simscale or fusion. Maybe I am just oldschool but the whole browser based thing didn't sit right with me for CAD stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I've worked professionally with a lot of CAD systems in the past (Caria, Solidworks, Siemens NX, Creo ...) and Onshape feels so refreshing compared to all of these "old school" CAD systems.

The git like system to manage to manage version for example works extremely well, performance wise it can be used on a potato and being browser based it can be used on Linux.

The design process is extremely smooth and intuitive.

My only problem with it is that unfortunately all the data is cloud based and it requires a constant internet connection but so far I have not found a worthy alternative.

[–] Know_not_Scotty_does 1 points 17 hours ago

Yeah, the versioning and operations history functions a similar to an always refreshing l pdm suite imo which can be handy but I never found it to be all that much better for my needs. I didn't play with the version merging functions much though. The only via internet aspect was a dealbreaker for me from a functional and security perspective.