Curious, are they scaled to Inches or MM?
@keith I got those emails as well, but the videos assume knowledge of CAD.
Good to know. Certainly doesn’t help people trying to learn. I started with Autocad back when it was text based (R4 I think). It’s much more powerful and intuitive now.
Anyway, I think that Onshape is trying to get some market share, but appealing to seasoned cad users is not really the best plan. Autodesk nailed it with giving their software to students for free. Everyone who uses it in school can be industry ready by graduation, so it behooves businesses to buy seats for their new employees to use. Brilliant in my opinion.
They should be in mm, so they would be 500mm in diameter. Did I done goof it up?
Yeah that’s more than a little annoying. I guess they’re expecting more converts than newbies?
AutoDesk has name recognition. Everyone who knows CAD at least knows of AutoCAD. Anything they do is going to get a lot of attention. That being said, they did pretty well with Fusion. Aside from the free subscriptions to students and hobbyists, they’re really going to beat their competition on cost. From what I remember, even if you are a money-making business it still only costs $300 a year, which is nothing compared to other platforms which are in the $3000-$7000 range.
that’s just because I post a lot, there are probably more people who have said they use fusion 360, but I don’t and I post a lot so you see onshape a lot 
there are a lot of onshape tutorials on youtube, that seems to be the place that onshape posts their info (including walking you through how to use new features as they introduce them)
Yes, any CAD program that doesn’t do DXF/DWG cannot be considered serious. There are a lot of opensouce programs that handle it, but to people new to the field the first reaction is that it’s a proprietary format from the evil Autodesk, and SVG is a vector format, so that should be able to do everything (and it should, if it wasn’t for this pesky scaling problem that every program seems to run into)
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that’s disappointing. On the one hand, good that they are honest about it, but perhaps they should consider some basic instruction videos.
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@icedub: If you wanted to get started in Onshape, I previewed the first video in this series and it seems to do a pretty good job of introducing you to workflow in the program.
That’s pretty badass. If I didn’t deal with Imperial drawings all day long I might do the same thing.
Yeah, I have trouble understanding why any CAD program doesn’t have, at the very least, a DXF import. After all, it’s name stands for “Drawing Exchange Format”. It’s pretty standard in industry, at the very least. I wish SVG didn’t have those scaling issues, I would like them more if they didn’t.