Jon hirschtick aims to upend a market dominated by the company. Heppelmann and hirschtick on ptcs acquisition of onshape. But one cant simply take an existing localized, onpremise program like cad, and mount it on some servers and call it saas. Jon hirschtick january 7, 2015 solidworks founder jon hirschtick explains why he is building onshape, a new cloudbased cad system. Ptc announced in a press release on october 23, 2019 that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire onshape, creators of the first software as a service saas product development platform that unites robust computer aided design cad with data management and collaboration tools. Both onshape and solidworks are the creations of jon hirschtick. Onshape was created for globally distributed design and engineering teams to collaborate anytime, anywhere on any device. Of particular interest was the dual attendance of cad royalty.
Well, its hard to find someone as passionate about computeraided design cad software as jon hirschtick, the cofounder and chair of threeyearold. Figure 8 two new tabs appear when you enter sheet metal model mode. Onshape teams up with magic leap for new spatial computing cad app. Jon holds a bachelors and masters from mit, and has worked in cad for over 30 years. Ptc completes acquisition of onshape business wire. Jon hirschtick president saas business ptc linkedin. Interview with onshape ceo jon hirschtick the cloud is certainly one of the dominating forces in software and in technology circles everywhere by tj mccue senior contributor. Jon hirschtick aims to upend a market dominated by the. See the complete profile on linkedin and discover jons. But were not in the business of creating software for its own sake. Now, when most executives would have their eye on retirement, hirschtick is anteing up again. Jon hirschtick knows something about the current generation of cad tools.
Mecsoft releases visualcamc production cam for onshape. According to s editorinchief, verdi ogewell, this is the second time jon hirschtick was able to sell a cad system at a 9digit figure. 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. 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.
Founded in 2012 by jon hirschtick, onshape is a cloudbased 3d modeling software that combines cad, collaboration, and data management. At xconomys xsite conference last week, i had the honor of moderating a reunion panel of the mit blackjack team with two of the original members bill kaplan and jon hirschtick and two neelan. It has been a year since onshape beta was announced at develop3d live 2015. We made onshapes pricing model different, and we think its better for everyone. 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. Why we started from scratch again in the cad business. We managed to wrangle jon hirschtick founder and chairman, onshape and carl bass ceo, autodesk into answering the same six questions about cad in the cloud, including the ultimate, whizbang question of the year at the end. Jon hirschtick is a leading innovator in cad software development, responsible for two of the fields major paradigm shifts. It has been founded by jon hirschtick, best known for developing solidworks way back in 1993. Jon hirschtick opens up about onshape, why it was created, what it does, what it doesnt 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. Future programs might offer to the design default values for a shape based on. Engineering software finally starts moving to the cloud. It offers fullcloud 3d cad system that lets everyone on a design team work together using any web browser, phone or tablet. Developers need to focus themselves in making professional cad software not some software for amateurs who want to share and like unfinished product.
You might also know hirschtick as the cofounder of solidworks, a pioneer in bringing cad from mainframes to desktop computers. 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. Onshape builds its standing as a solidworks competitor. The future of cad jon hirschtick tedxbeaconstreet youtube.
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. By bringing onshape inhouse, the software maker has placed itself ahead of the. Jon discusses the current state of this rapidly evolving software, the remarkable ways in which companies are using the new technology, and his future vision of fullcloud cad. Reduce vmware backup windows, recovery time objectives rto, and dramatically reduce onpremises storage footprint by directly backing up vmware vms to any public cloud using actifio sky. Parametric modeling made solid modeling practical for the first time and was a huge time saver, says jon hirschtick, chief executive officer at. The industry continues to use software that was designed for a standalone pc running msdos. Learn how to get your product to market faster with simultaneous editing, data management, builtin collaboration tools and realtime. Ive been lucky enough to be part of some of the biggest moments in the past in our industry and i feel like today is perhaps the biggest moment ive experienced in our industry.
Its kind of shocking, actually, given the profound changes in computing as the world has moved on to the internet, cloud, and mobile. Solidworks founder jon hirschtick explains why he is building. Solidworks founder jon hirschtick explains why he is building onshape. Imagine the productivity gains if cad software embraced concepts like document. Hirschtick holds a bachelors and masters degree from mit, graduating in 1986. Jon hirschtick march 2, 2015 company cofounder tommy li says he thinks onshape sounds like a state of being. Ive spent my entire career since the 1980s in our industry working on cad and other software for product development. 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. The companys software offering is delivered in a saas model, making it accessible from any connected location or device, eliminating the need for. Onshape teams up with magic leap for new spatial computing. Jon hirschtick and the original cast of solidworks, money poured in. In this episode of the digital factory podcast, jon bruner talks with jon hirschtick, the cofounder and ceo of onshape, a sixyearold company developing a cad platform thats entirely cloudbased.
The new fullcloud cad system empowers designers and engineers to work on the same cad data at the same time. For more than a halfcentury, cad users were confined to working on a flat screen. Years ago, wed talk about all the fun stuff in cad. Ptc acquires onshape, visualizes collaborations with. Onshape is a computeraided design cad software system, delivered over the internet via a. Hes also a very smart guy whos been around the cad world for a very long time. Were excited to bring the many benefits of modern cad to engineers in the magicverse, says onshape ceo jon hirschtick. How do fusion 360, onshape, and 3dexperience differ.
Acis c3d open cascade technology parasolid rgk romulus kernelcad shapemanager teigha intellicad smlib. Develop 3d live usa jon hirschtick, onshape develop 3d. Actifio sky software provides an exceptional, scalable, enterprisegrade copy data management cdm solution for mongodb databases. After starting the company in 1993, serving as ceo and then as a member on the executive board for the majority of his time with solidworks, jon. A solidsmack exclusive, sidebyside interview with two of the biggest names in. Onshape is a computeraided design cad software system, delivered over the internet via a software as a service saas model. 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. He was a founder and ceo of solidworks, which started in 1993, and was acquired by dassault systems in 2011.
Ptc to acquire leading saas product development platform. 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. Onshape cad online 3d modelling software for engineers. Thats why a number of veterans of solidworks, including its original founder jon hirschtick, have come together to completely reimagine how. The cad insider jon hirschtick opens up about onshape. View jon hirschticks profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Ptc has acquired onshape, creators of the industrys first pure software as a service saas product development platform that unites robust computer aided design cad with powerful data management and collaboration tools. The companys software offering is delivered in a saas model.