Latest Product Updates and Feature Enhancements on Onshape
How Onshape PCB Studio Pulls 3D Component Models Straight from Altium 365
Onshape PCB Studio now integrates directly with Altium 365, allowing real-time import of 3D component models into mechanical assemblies. This cloud-to-cloud connection eliminates manual downloads and... ensures that changes in Altium automatically update in Onshape, improving design accuracy and supply chain visibility. The integration leverages Altium's Octopart service for accurate component data, enhancing collaboration between ECAD and MCAD teams.
PTC connects Onshape and Altium for design collaboration
PTC has introduced a cloud-based integration between Onshape CAD and Altium, enhancing collaboration between electrical and mechanical engineering teams. The Onshape Altium Connector synchronizes PCB... and mechanical changes across platforms, enabling early design reviews and reducing manual data handling. This integration supports PTC's Intelligent Product Lifecycle strategy by improving product data management and development processes.
PTC Onshape Introduces Direct Altium Integration to Streamline ECAD ...
PTC has introduced a new integration between its Onshape CAD platform and Altium, enabling seamless cloud-native collaboration between electrical and mechanical engineering teams. This integration el...iminates the need for file-based PCB data exchange, allowing real-time synchronization and version control across both platforms. The Onshape Altium Connector enhances design efficiency by ensuring that circuit boards fit correctly within enclosures, reducing costly errors.
Onshape as the 3DEXPERIENCE SOLIDWORKS Alternative
Onshape positions itself as a superior alternative to SOLIDWORKS xDesign, emphasizing its cloud-native architecture. Unlike SOLIDWORKS, Onshape offers seamless browser-based access, eliminating insta...llation and compatibility issues. It supports real-time collaboration, automatic updates, and simplified licensing, making it an attractive choice for engineering teams seeking efficiency and flexibility.
How the Onshape Altium Connector Erases the ECAD-MCAD Divide
Onshape has launched the Onshape Altium Connector, a cloud-native integration that bridges the gap between ECAD and MCAD design processes. This bi-directional synchronization allows seamless data exc...hange between Onshape PCB Studio and Altium 365, eliminating file handoffs and enhancing collaboration. The integration supports unified component libraries, high-fidelity visibility, synchronized constraints, and supply chain traceability, accelerating product development and reducing errors.
Discover True Cloud-Based ECAD-MCAD Collaboration with Onshape and Altium
Onshape introduces the Altium Connector, a cloud-to-cloud integration within Onshape PCB Studio, enabling seamless ECAD-MCAD collaboration. This integration allows real-time data exchange between Alt...ium 365 and Onshape, eliminating file-based workflows. Teams can work from a unified data source, enhancing design efficiency for electronics-driven products. The connector supports parallel development, reducing iteration time and ensuring continuous alignment between mechanical and electrical design processes.
PTC Integrates Onshape with NVIDIA Isaac Sim for Robotics
PTC has integrated its Onshape CAD and PDM platform with NVIDIA Isaac Sim, creating a unified workflow for robotics design and simulation. This integration, launched at NVIDIA GTC 2026, allows for se...amless updates between design and simulation, enhancing efficiency and reducing errors in robotic development. It aims to expedite development and improve returns on automation investments by facilitating early-stage simulation in industrial robot design.
PTC's Onshape boosts design efficiency with new cloud-native model ...
PTC has launched a cloud-native Model-Based Definition (MBD) capability within its Onshape CAD and PDM platform. This new feature integrates manufacturing information directly into 3D models, enhanci...ng collaboration and reducing errors. Built on AWS, it supports real-time collaboration and includes features such as integrated 3D annotations, a smart inspection panel, and shareable MBD views, streamlining design and production workflows.
Model-Based Definition Added To Onshape Cloud CAD Platform
PTC has introduced a cloud-native Model-Based Definition (MBD) feature in its Onshape CAD platform. This new capability allows engineering teams to embed manufacturing data directly into 3D models, i...mproving collaboration and reducing errors. The integration leverages AWS infrastructure to facilitate real-time access and collaboration, enhancing the product development process by maintaining data accuracy and reducing handovers.
Onshape has launched model-based definition (MBD) capabilities in its cloud-native CAD and PDM platform. This feature allows embedding product manufacturing information directly into 3D CAD models, e...nhancing communication and reducing reliance on 2D drawings. The MBD tools support standards-compliant annotations and enable seamless sharing and inspection, improving efficiency and clarity in product development.
Onshape, part of PTC, has integrated Model-Based Definition (MBD) tools into its platform, enhancing model-centric product development. This update allows teams to embed manufacturing data directly i...nto 3D models, streamlining design, documentation, and compliance processes. The cloud-native platform, hosted on AWS, supports real-time collaboration and aligns with PTC's Intelligent Product Lifecycle strategy.
Onshape, part of PTC, has launched a cloud-native Model-Based Definition (MBD) capability integrated within its CAD and PDM platform. This innovation allows embedding manufacturing data directly into... 3D models, enhancing collaboration and reducing errors. Built on AWS, the platform supports real-time collaboration and compliance workflows, marking a significant step in digital product lifecycle management.
PTC Adds Cloud-Native Model-Based Definition to Onshape CAD Platform
PTC has integrated a cloud-native model-based definition feature into the Onshape CAD platform, enhancing its capabilities for product development. This addition allows for more efficient and collabo...rative design processes, leveraging cloud technology to streamline workflows.
PTC has integrated cloud-native Model-Based Definition (MBD) capabilities into the Onshape CAD platform, enhancing its product development features. This update allows users to define, organize, and ...manage product data directly within the cloud environment, streamlining workflows and improving collaboration.
Onshape has integrated AI Advisor into its cloud-based CAD and PDM software, enhancing design automation and collaboration. The AI-enabled assistant automates changes in CAD models and leverages Onsh...ape's database-driven system for seamless PDM. Onshape's partnership with AWS supports its AI development, and its architecture allows for efficient AI model integration. The platform's REST API and FeatureScript language further enable advanced generative design capabilities.
PTC Integrates MBD Capabilities to Enhance Engineering Design Capabilities
PTC has introduced next-generation model-based definition (MBD) capabilities in Onshape, its cloud-native product development platform. The new MBD features enable engineers to add 3D annotations and... manufacturing data directly to CAD models, streamlining design-to-manufacturing workflows. Aura Aero, a French aerospace manufacturer, is among the first to adopt these capabilities, aiming to accelerate aircraft development and reduce errors. This release strengthens Onshapes position in cloud-based engineering design and collaboration.
Strategic Partnerships and Integrations of Onshape
PTC Connects Onshape with NVIDIA Isaac Sim: Enabling a Unified Robotics ...
PTC has integrated Onshape with NVIDIA Isaac Sim to create a unified robotics design-to-simulation workflow. This integration allows seamless data transfer from Onshape's CAD platform to Isaac Sim, r...educing manual rework and accelerating development cycles. It supports physical AI workflows and is built on AWS, enhancing synchronization and efficiency in robotics development.
Luminary Cloud has integrated its Physics AI simulation platform with Onshape, enabling a unified workflow for geometry, simulation, and AI. Available via the Onshape App Store, this integration allo...ws users to import Onshape geometries directly into Luminary for efficient, GPU-native simulation. This collaboration accelerates design processes, supports large-scale AI model training, and enhances engineering toolchains, ultimately reducing development costs.
