He saw an opportunity to develop a newgeneration, prolevel cad package that would run fully with the browser no software download and keep everything in the cloud. In november 2012, former solidworks ceos jon hirschtick and john mceleney led a team of six cofounders launching belmont technology, a placeholder name that was later changed to onshape. One of the original founders of solidworks, he led a team that came out of nowhere in the 1990s and taught a lesson in performance, ease of use and value to reigning market leaders, notably ptc and autodesk. Ptc to acquire leading saas product development platform. Computer aided design, or cad, has followed the arc of computing over the last 50 years. File locking and grabcad download is not much better since it screws up external references when. Liveworx digital transformation event liveworx digital. The founder of solidworks, jon hirschtick, has done it again. Ever since jon hirschtick and john mceleney, veterans in this industry, pulled together a new startup to focus on the remaining challenges with mcad, there has been plenty of speculation.
Jon hirschtick, left, leads onshape to ptc ceo jim heppelmann. Mecsoft corporation, the developer of computer aided manufacturing cam software solutions, announces the commercial release of visualcamc for onshape, its cloudhosted, fully integrated cam addon app for onshape. Hirschtick and several other key onshape team members, like chief executive john mceleney, were previously founders of solidworks, a company that pioneered computeraided design software for windows pcs. Onshape writes a testimonial for graebert graebert gmbh is renowned throughout the cad industry as a worldleading technology partner for cad on desktop, mobile, and now cloud. In bricscad, you can generate drawing views from any 3d model. Jon hirschtick, founder of both onshape and solidworks, has always been a bit ethically challenged.
We arent in india to do maintenance work, we are here for the talent, is the first thing john mceleney says when you meet him. We managed to wrangle jon hirschtick founder and chairman, onshape and carl. Free plan users will not be able to edit private data. In this webinar, jon answers questions about whats next with onshape, trends in engineering, his favorite programming language, and more. We currently do not have plans to introduce a native onshape file download. The latest, solidworks 2020, was released on the 18th of september, 2019. For three quarters of our users, onshape is the primary cad system, said jon hirschtick, onshape ceo. Solidworks history and solidworks all details solidworks is a solid modeling computeraided design cad and computeraided engineering cae computer program that runs on microsoft windows. Solidworks corporation was founded in december 1993 by massachusetts institute of technology graduate jon hirschtick. He shares what his team has learned from building a new fullcloud cad system called onshape. And acquired by dassault systemes in 1997, becoming a subsidiary.
Jon hirschtick is a mover and shaker in the cad industry. Jon hirschtick remained with the company in various capacities for 14 years, before leaving to cofound onshape. Jon hirschtick onshape is the new generation of cad. This interview with jon hirschtick was conducted as part of the peoples cad interview and originally appeared on in russian.
The mit graduate was one of the founders of solidworks, is now in the process of starting up a new venture called onshape as founder and chairman, and from what i hear is also one hell of a blackjack player. Years ago, wed talk about all the fun stuff in cad. He founded the company in massachusetts as belmont technology, together with five other cofounders. I just love the idea of not having to install software and never having to worry. Since 2004, have been the leading russian web resources on engineering software.
Jon hirschtick knows something about the current generation of cad tools. A user base once afraid of the internet who fretted about files being in the cloud and getting into the wrong hands, and were convinced the speed and power. Onshape the cad revolution ahead of its time newsroom. As you may know, onshape is the first and only fullcloud 3d cad system. Jon holds a bachelors and masters from mit, and has worked in cad for over 30 years. Jon leads the team researching, developing, and managing the recently acquired saas product development platform, onshape. He was a founder and ceo of solidworks, a group executive at dassault systemes, director of engineering at computervision, manager at the mit cadlab, a player and instructor on the mit blackjack team, and a professional magician. Future programs might offer to the design default values for a shape based on the. We were certain that onshape was the chosen one, the one that would lead engineers to the promised land of design, to a single source of truth in the cloud. Jon is a mover and shaker in the product development arena. The cad insider onshape not making a profit is crazy.
Learn how to get your product to market faster with simultaneous editing, data management, builtin collaboration tools and realtime. As a professional subscriber, you can share private data with users on onshape free plan. Jon is a cofounder and chief executive officer of onshape. Set up in 2012 by jon hirschtick, the founder of solid works, globally along with mceleney, former ceo, solidworks, the firm. We sat down with jim heppelmann, ceo of ptc, and jon hirschtick, founder of onshape, to talk about the future of onshape for our students and our commitment to offer it for free to students. For the past couple of years, theres been some intrigue in the mcad industry. There is a large selection of free apps so i decided to download power surfacing. From mit to solidworks, onshape and now ptc, jon has experienced firsthand the trends that have shaped this space. We made onshapes pricing model different, and we think its better for everyone. Now well dive into jons thoughts on how the future of computing is helping to shape pun.
Onshape has 10,071 monthly app downloads on its onshape 3d cad app. Outside of ptc, jon is a member of the engineering advisory board at. Onshape unites advanced modeling tools and design data management in a secure cloud workspace that is accessible on any device and never loses data. Over the years, 28 versions of solidworks have been released. Jon hirschtick, john mceleney, scott harris, dave corcoran et.
Both onshape and solidworks are the creations of jon hirschtick. The ceo of onshape, a 3d cloudbased computeraided design cad company was in pune to formally launch their india operations. View jon hirschticks profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Hes also a very smart guy whos been around the cad world for a very long time. Solidworks is the leading supplier of 3d cad product design engineering software. Located in cambridge, ma, onshape was founded in 2012 by cad pioneers and tech legends, including jon hirschtick, john mceleney, and dave corcoran, inventors and former executives of solidworks. Onshape is continuing to gain momentum and market share and are on the path to fundamentally reshape the cad industry. Jon hirschtick is a cad software developer, founder and former ceo of solidworks, a popular solid modeling 3d cad and cae system for microsoft windows. Talking to jon hirschtick about the future of the cloud and cad. He was a founder and ceo of solidworks, which started in 1993, and was acquired by dassault systems in 2011. These views are updated automatically when the original model is changed. Why we started from scratch again in the cad business. Advice from jon hirschtick onshape for education youtube.
They made sure they could read the native solidworks files, but only the part files could be read directly, the assemblies had to be packed with pack and go, which i found mysterious. Cad user habits are changing, just like shoppers habits. Jon hirschtick president saas business ptc linkedin. Initially based in waltham, massachusetts, united states, hirschtick recruited a team of engineers with the goal of building 3d cad software that was easyto. Jon hirschtick, founder of onshape, shares his advice for cad students. Jon hirschtick aims to upend a market dominated by the company. In the cad world, jon hirschtick, chairman of the board at onshape, hardly needs an introduction. Mecsoft releases visualcamc production cam for onshape. Hirschtick holds a bachelors and masters degree from mit, graduating in 1986. In 2012, onshape was cofounded by jon hirschtick, a renowned cad software developer who had earlier created solidworks. These free plan users will be able to view, export and download the data if granted permission. Picture courtesy of ptc on october 23, 2019, we were jolted awake by the news that ptc was buying onshape. Jon hirschtick is a cad software developer, founder and former ceo of solidworks, a popular solid modeling 3d cad and cae system for microsoft windows, and onshape, a cloud platform for product development that includes tools for cad, data management, collaboration, workflow, analytics, etc.
According to s editorinchief, verdi ogewell, this is the second time jon hirschtick was able to sell a cad system at a 9digit figure. In this recording, attendees ask jon questions about onshape, the cad industry, and much more. It makes extensive use of cloud computing, with computeintensive processing and rendering performed on internetbased servers, and users are able to interact with the system via a web browser or the ios and android apps onshape allows teams to collaborate on a. Jon hirschtick is evp and president of the softwareasaservice saas business unit at ptc.
Solidworks founder jon hirschtick explains why he is building. In this session, jon discusses how these seemingly insurmountable challenges can be tackled with a brand new approach how fully leveraging the latest cloudwebmobile technologies can improve the way we all design products. Outside of ptc, he advises emerging technology companies including magic leap and markforged. Jon leads the team researching, developing, and managing the recently acquired onshape saas product development platform. In 1995 his first version of 3d cad launched in the market. Modern cad allows design teams to be more focused and more efficient. Jon will assume a senior role leading the onshape business at ptc and will report directly to me when the acquisition closes. You can download the installation files or install from a cd. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover jons.
Once you get going with onshape, momentum will build and youll never want to look back. My most recent boston globe column focuses on jon hirschtick and the team of entrepreneurs behind onshape, a cambridge startup that is launching the beta version of its product today. Onshape is a computeraided design cad software system, delivered over the internet via a software as a service saas model. The team behind onshape is the same team that created solidworks. Of particular interest was the dual attendance of cad royalty. Thats the view of jon hirschtick, chief executive officer of onshape, which. Onshapes cofounders include two former solidworks ceos, jon hirschtick and john mceleney.
The industry needed something that combined 3d modeling with the ease of use. If i change the shape of the front fender of the snowmobile and youre. Onshape builds its standing as a solidworks competitor. Onshape, a saas product development software company recently acquired by ptc, made its debut on the boston globes 2019 top places to work in massachusetts list. It was clear for attendees and onlookers of the develop3d live event held at warwick university last week, that it was a rip roaring success full of brain food and networking. Cloudbased download of software has been adopted by most. It makes extensive use of cloud computing, with computeintensive processing and rendering performed on internetbased servers, and users are able to interact with the system via a web browser or the ios and android apps. The company was founded by cad legends, including jon hirschtick, john mceleney, and dave corcoran, all inventors of and former executives at solidworks. Onshape chairman jon hirschtick on cad, 3d printing. Onshape cad online 3d modelling software for engineers. From mit to solidworks to onshape, hes seen it all.
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