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How is your experience with OnShape? I find the web-based approach really appealing but have been concerned it would be more limited than desktop counterparts like Creo or SOLIDWORKS, and potentially more painful to integrate with PLM systems.

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Aside from the fact that is is proprietary and cloud based, I love OnShape. It does have some limitations, like operations that logically should make sense but will just fail, but this is what makes CAD very hard even for a large experienced team like OnShape.

But I like that I can run it in Linux because it is browser based, tho I would prefer a local native app. Onshape is hard to use on a slow connection.

But I use it to design all kinds of complex robots and it is great.

OnShape is definitely more limited, even compared to Fusion 360. However, I've moved to it as my main CAD tool, since it works on Linux and Fusion 360 licensing is so problematic. Fusion 360 also has a web interface, but it doesn't support Linux, and even on Windows doesn't work very well. The only thing I've needed to go back to Fusion 360 for is thread modeling.

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