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The Second Coming of Onshape

This January, Onshape CEO and co-Found Jon Hirschtick did the rounds of press and analyst sites with jovial interviews and updates about the progress of OnShape. His message is that Onshape is ready for primetime.  When we chatted, Hirschtick told me that OnShape has “thousands” of paying online subscribers. To those used to hearing vendors claim “millions of users” for ...

Kathleen Maher

This January, Onshape CEO and co-Found Jon Hirschtick did the rounds of press and analyst sites with jovial interviews and updates about the progress of OnShape. His message is that Onshape is ready for primetime.  When we chatted, Hirschtick told me that OnShape has “thousands” of paying online subscribers. To those used to hearing vendors claim “millions of users” for specific products, a mere thousands might not seem significant, but the truth is 3D CAD is a professional tool and no single tool is used by millions of people. For perspective, in our research, we put the number of SolidWorks
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