
One of the most impressive things about Onshape is that their solution works on iPhone, iPads and Android devices. MORE: Visionary Silicon Valley firm joins Onshape Team Onshape is driven by SolidWorks veterans combined with very talented Gen-Y (Millennials) coders and engineers. The company has told this author that the majority of its software coders are writing their code and working on the Mac. All rights reserved.Īnd Onshape is a big Apple fan too. And that’s huge for the CAD industry to say that.Ġ1 – Onshape running on Apple Mac and iPad devices. The net result is the operating systems don’t matter.

Onshape is demonstrating in its success that a true, fully cloud-based CAD offering can work entirely through a standards based web browser. Likely the biggest story of 2015 for the CAD world is the emergence of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Onshape. Here are the five reasons-in detail-why 2015 was the best year in CAD for Mac. The underlying story helping drive this market change is really all about access. MORE: Apple’s Enterprise Strategy: Japan’s largest AEC companies going ‘all iPad’īut the story is also interesting because it is not about the hardware. Combine this with Apple’s enterprise push and global growth of its ecosystem and things have never looked so good.
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In short, 2015 was the best year in CAD for Mac because several key new product developments came to the platform in concert with a global shift within the CAD industry in how CAD will be likely delivered in the future: namely the cloud. Take this next paragraph as the executive summary it is actually meant to be.

And the irony of all of this is that today Apple’s actual Mac computer lineup isn’t all that revolutionary or different than what one can find in the Windows world. It starts with explosive demand and growth on the platform.

But here is why the year 2015 was the best year ever in the history of CAD on the OS X platform. To be entirely honest it’s the type of revelation that snuck up on me too.
