Innovator's Insider Onshape

In this episode Michael and Richard highlight a new format for the show along with some cool Tech Tips and some news about Onshape User Groups.

First up, Richard demonstrates how to use PEM fasteners in sheet metal designs. He shows us how easy it is to use these popular standard content parts. For more information, read the article, ”Tech Tip: How to Use PEM Fasteners Efficiently with Sheet Metal Designs”. 
Next in the show: What grinds your gears? 
If it’s creating gears from scratch in Onshape, we’ve got the solution for you. Michael displays how to use the Spur Gear Custom Feature, which allows users to create mathematically correct spur gears with an optional center bore hole and keyway. Designers are able to save time by bypassing sketching gears from an empty screen. 
Following that demonstration, Richard checks out a cool Onshape model! But what is it? You have to watch the episode to find out.
To finish out the show, hosts tease some upcoming events:
Onshape User Group MeetingsOnshape Forums Render Battle #4Too Tall Toby’s 2023 World Championship of 3D CAD Speedmodeling

In this episode of the Innovator's Insider podcast, Richard and Mike chat with representatives of three Onshape partner apps and learn about the awesome functionality each of them are delivering. Watch or listen to the podcast to discover how these apps could be beneficial to your workflow too. 

Featured Guests:
⭐ Stefan Oberpeilsteiner from PRINCIPIA
⭐ Oleg Shilovitsky from OpenBOM
⭐ Alnis Smidchens Student at Univ. of Washington and Product Management Intern at Onshape who demonstrates referencefinder.net and a few upcoming sample apps. 

In this episode, Michael and Richard discuss what they saw and learned at PTC LiveWorx 2023 in Boston. You’ll hear their thoughts, see some brief interviews with attendees, and a lot of pictures. Stick around to the end because we close the show with a special “hair raising” segment.

Michael and Richard share their excitement for the upcoming event, and are joined by special guests Chad Stoltzfus of Premier Custom Built, Jaime-Lee Bunton, Senior Community Manager, PTC, and Aaron Magnin, Product Marketing Manager, Onshape. You can hear the enthusiasm is everyone’s voices as we talk about what we’re most looking forward to at our first live CAD user conference in quite a while.

Register for Liveworx 2023: https://www.liveworx.com/

In this episode Michael and Richard talk with John “JR” Rousseau, VP of Technical Operation at PTC-Onshape about the “Six Zeros” unique to Onshape’s full-cloud CAD. You will hear the reasons why Onshape can claim zero backup or disaster recovery, zero downtime, zero crashes, and more. There’s also a short note about the upcoming Onshape User Groups for Start-Ups meeting April 27th.


How Onshape’s 'Six Zeros’ Enable Agile Product Development Sign up to join the Onshape User Group for Start-Ups 

In this episode focusing on agile hardware design, Richard and Michael welcome David Ullman – author of “The Mechanical Design Process”, Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Design at Oregon State University, and a builder and pilot of aircraft. David talks about SCRUM for hardware design and leads us through the various similarities and differences between agile software design and agile hardware design. Michael also has a great look at how Onshape supports agile product development. This is a heavily visual episode, best to watch on YouTube.David Ullman - www.davidullman.com
More about Becoming Agile - https://www.onshape.com/en/blog/becoming-agile