Old CAD means that engineers are system administrators
and software administrators and hardware administrators.
New CAD means engineers can do what they love--
design innovative products.
It's not acceptable at this company to not move forward.
If you don't like change, you are not going to be happy here.
When something better comes along, we're going to try it.
Old CAD is limited by old technology--
expensive software running on expensive hardware.
You're spending your time trying to fix the software,
rather than fixing your design.
Everything is moving to the cloud.
And for CAD to not do that just doesn't make any sense.
The more you look at it, the more you realize,
do I keep going through this pain?
Or do I at least try something new?
So a couple of years ago, we've stumbled upon Onshape
in a blog.
It was met with some skepticism.
I, myself, was skeptical in the beginning.
A buddy of mine pulled it up on his phone.
I thought he had a viewer up. He
told me no, this the actual model.
Look, you can edit.
Finding out that we could use simpler computers and just
have the CAD run in an internet browser, that's what
really intrigued me at first.
Everyone was kind of thinking the same thing--
if this can work, we need to do it.
How we chose to do it was to take one guy,
have him go complete Onshape, and see
what he thinks after just living in the world of Onshape
for a few months.
I was the guinea pig and got to take a first look at it
and see who would be beneficial for our company.
It didn't take very long before we were saying, wow,
this tool is really becoming useful.
And after three months he didn't want to go back.
The very first time we logged in while driving back
from a potential customer visit, and designed
the first part that we ever did on the phone,
and that was just astonishing.
That's what sold us.
The fact that we can collaborate inside a single document
on multiple facets of the design at once.
Just because Onshape is a web-based application,
don't think that it's not a fully capable CAD package.
A lot of times in other systems, you
have to wait for them to finish.
Whereas if you're just working on a portion of it,
in Onshape, you can be working on those in parallel
and reducing some of the downtime.
It is incredible, the degree to which
you're able to compress the time scale of bringing innovations
to the market.
To share the ideas and keep those ideas moving,
that's the glory of Onshape.
The complexity of designing a snowmobile,
and really any sort of large project,
is integrating things properly together.
There are over 1,500 unique parts,
and over 3,000 repeated parts.
So it is a very complex product.
Once we started looking under the hood, that
was what really made us think, OK, we've
got something that we can really work with here.
It allows us to save thousands of dollars per user per year.
And that's resources we can put straight back into development.
Switching platforms is not comfortable.
Onshape made it easy.
We took that leap, went full on board with Onshape,
and we haven't looked back.
We wanted to get better.
We wanted to get faster.
We wanted to be more efficient.
What I said to my peers is, go give it a shot.
What really drives me as an engineer is,
I like to create things and come up with new solutions
to different problems.
It's a tool that works.
It makes us competitive, makes us more creative,
moves us forward.
Onshape is really allowing us to get back
to being what it is that we are passionate about--
being engineers.