Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Catching Up With OnShape at MakerCon”.
Hi, i’m matt stoltz here with john hershtech of onshape. Can you tell us a little bit about onshape and what sets it aside from other cad tools? Well, onshape is a new generation of cloud-based cad and we’ve put the whole cad system and all your cad data in one secure place in the cloud onshape’s, the first professional level, 3d cad system, you access from any browser phone or tablet, there’s no installs, no downloads. We have a free plan and a pro plan the entire team can work together with cad on any device anywhere. Can you tell us what inspired you to offer a free maker option for your cad package? Well, we saw the free the free plan as being perfect for makers, but also for students and for light duty professionals. What we found is at the edge of every design team, there’s sort of a group of people who don’t use cad all the time use it. Some of the time – and we just thought the free plan – would solve so many problems for so many people, both our paying customers and for the huge maker community.
We thought it would be perfect great. How do you feel putting really professional design tools into the hands of everyone will affect design in the future? Well, i think we’ll see a lot of people making a lot cooler products and having a lot more fun with professional design tools in their hands for the maker community. I think we’ll see them go from building. You know simple plastic things to building really complicated machines and consumer goods and cad is the last piece of the puzzle in order for them to achieve that. So, of course, one of the important uses of cad, especially in the maker community, is 3d printing uh.
Do you guys have any possible 3d printing tools being incorporated within on shape heading in the future? Anything you might be able to. Let us know about sure. Well, first of all, we have excellent stl output and that’s where it starts. We also have the capability to store stl files as tabs in our on-shape documents. We have these compound documents, so you can have your your 3d solid model and assembly and an stl file all in one document.
That then, is shared and other people can just open. In their browser and then download it again if they need it in the future, i think we’ll see integrated 3d printing applications on the inside of another tab in onshape. Using our api, or maybe peer-to-peer browser window to browser window where the web-based browser-based 3d printing product will communicate directly with onshape, you may not even end up seeing the stl file, you’ll just say: go to 3d print and boom up up pops. The printer software in browser and you print well, thank you. We look forward to seeing a lot more from onshape, as, as you continue development and get out of beta.
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