
PTC announced their entry into a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help accelerate the growth of its Onshape cloud-native computer-aided design (CAD) and product data management (PDM) solution. This collaboration will focus on helping to advance Onshape product enhancements, customer adoption programs, and artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives, all of which are aimed at helping product designers and engineers to create new, higher-quality products faster and more efficiently.
The Onshape team and AWS will collaborate on several product and go-to-market (GTM) priorities, including:
Onshape Discovery Program: The Onshape Discovery Program allows qualified users to try Onshape Professional at no cost for up to six months. This allows engineering teams to test the speed and collaboration of the Onshape cloud-native CAD and PDM solution for an extended time period before making the decision of whether to adopt Onshape.
Onshape AI Advisor: Onshape AI Advisor will help to allow users to design products faster by cataloguing the Onshape resource library of text-based documentation and videos and answering questions or making recommendations during the design process. While designing, users will be able to type a question in conversational language and the Onshape AI Advisor will respond with an answer or recommendation based on the resource library and provide links to additional information. The Onshape AI Advisor will run on Amazon Bedrock and is expected to be released by the end of 2024.
CAD and PDM Conversion Tools: In response to companies looking to switch to Onshape, this collaboration will allow the expansion of the capabilities of Onshape intelligent data migration toolsets. These toolsets help to reduce the complexity of switching systems by preserving the parametric features and sketch information of CAD models during translation.
Onshape Government: Onshape is being adopted by companies that need to accelerate their product development timelines and have elevated security requirements. A new Onshape Government option will deliver this security footprint to help comply with The International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) requirements.