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OnShape is just another skin over Parasolid (closed-source geometry kernel sold by Siemens) like SolidWorks, VectorWorks, and others I forget.

So it doesn't really represent meaningful progress towards FOSS CAD because ultimately it uses the same proprietary, expensive library to do the heavy lifting as most of its competitors.



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