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PTC provides Onshape design software to MassRobotics for robotic startups

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PTC, a provider of software for digital industry, is partnering with MassRobotics, a Massachusetts-based organization that provides support and resources to startups in the robotics sector.

The new collaboration will see PTC provide free licenses of Onshape, its cloud-native product development platform, to MassRobotics and its resident startups.

With Onshape, MassRobotics’ community of future-minded startups can leverage the latest in cloud product design software for robotics development. [Read more…] about PTC provides Onshape design software to MassRobotics for robotic startups

Briefing – Design and Prototyping: Invent something and make millions easily

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In this article, Robotics and Automation News wonders what it would be like to invent something and make millions from it

Many people dream of inventing something amazing and making millions or even billions from it. And here at the office, we’re no different.

All of us have ideas of our own and some of us are shameless enough to talk about them, although, as many of you will know, designing and developing, and then manufacturing and selling a product is not an easy task.

But without getting into the complexities further down the line, let’s look at the stage at which it’s just an idea.
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Cloud CAD app Onshape launches ‘Enterprise’ edition

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Cloud-based computer-aided design application Onshape has launched an “Enterprise” edition. 

Onshape is online software which is popular with designers of components and mechanical systems.

It was probably the first or at least one of the first to provide online 3D CAD capabilities to engineers and other users.  [Read more…] about Cloud CAD app Onshape launches ‘Enterprise’ edition

Onshape introduces programming language to its online 3D design application

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Onshape says FeatureScript is the first open programming language for adding new parametric CAD features

Onshape, the online 3D design software, is introducing a programming language to its application which the company says will enable designers to “create their own features that look, feel and behave just like Onshape’s built-in features”.

Onshape says it recognizes that the design challenges for each industry and every company are different. And this is one of the main reasons why Onshape is introducing FeatureScript, a new open programming language that lets CAD users create their own built-in parametric features or modify existing ones.

The company says FeatureScript will enable designers to change the way Onshape works. FeatureScript is the same language used to develop all of Onshape’s current features (Extrude, Fillet, Shell, Loft, and so on) and has already been used millions of times by Onshape users, perhaps without realizing it.

By making FeatureScript public – available to all Free, Professional and Enterprise Customers – full-cloud Onshape says it is now offering “the first truly customizable parametric CAD feature set”.  [Read more…] about Onshape introduces programming language to its online 3D design application

Onshape launches commercial online 3D design software

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Company adds more than 100 enhancements during ‘highly successful’ beta tests 

Onshape, the ground-breaking cloud-based 3D design software, has launched commercially, after many months of beta testing.

The company last year raised around $150 million in total funding to start the business and now looks set to repay its investors.

Onshape says its beta test has been “highly successful”, and included 400,000 user hours in more than 150 countries. [Read more…] about Onshape launches commercial online 3D design software