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s1montoday at 1:30 AM1 replyview on HN

Onshape is free in the browser as long as you are not doing commercial work. It’s a professional system from the founders of Solidworks that competes with all the top CAD tools.


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throwup238today at 1:48 AM

> It’s a professional system from the founders of Solidworks that competes with all the top CAD tools.

Because it's built on Parasolid, the same geometric kernel as everyone else. With ACIS pretty much out the door, almost all the professional CAD packages are just window dressing on the same CG implementation.

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