Onshape

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 2 years (2025–2026), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Onshape, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Finding useful FeatureScript community modules has terrible UX2026-03-30
Feels extremely sluggish and slow to interact with in the browser2025-11-19
Can't get the 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse to work with Onshape in browsers on macOS2025-08-01
Logged out unexpectedly while tab stayed open, and login button disabled until clicking a field2025-06-13
Hard to learn compared with other CAD tools, with annoying bugs2025-05-04