Continuing the discussion from 3D Design Software - what’s your current favourite?:
The free tier is all public, the education or paid tiers all are private with definable groups for projects (like when I teach a class my students all get the tutorial project and I can see their projects and help them…)
OnShape would be my favorite if it were not for Shapr3D. Which I am actually paying for, as the free tier doesn’t have sufficient features. Shapr3D is just so much easier for me to use, compared to either OnShape or Fusion 360.
One advantage of being an academic (one of the very, very few) is that I can get licenses for both OnShape and Fusion for free (and I do legitimately teach a course at the medical school using them). To me OnShape being totally browser based is a godsend as nobody needs to install anything for the class (and they all get educational licenses as well). The only 2 things you don’t get in OnShape with EDU (well there are some enterprise features that I don’t care about for user management) is the render studio and the CAM stuff (but I can model in OnShape and use Fusion’s excellent CAD when machining something on my mill, but for laser work on the GF, click on any surface and right click, export to DXF and through illustrator, right to GFUI.
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