Drawing or photo to native Onshape CAD.

A native Part Studio with a real feature tree: sketches, extrudes, holes and fillets in a sensible build order, with dimensions taken from your drawing. You edit it like a part your own team modelled, not an imported dumb solid.

It depends on your service level, and with AI CAD you often get both. AI CAD gives you several STEP candidates to choose from. They are optimized for geometric accuracy and come as solid bodies without design history. Where the part allows it, you also get a candidate with a feature tree built by the AI — delivered as a native Onshape document, so you edit it directly in your Onshape workspace. That gives you an editable starting point, though its geometry may be less precise than the geometry-only candidates. If you need a clean, fully parametric model, choose Engineer Built: an engineer rebuilds your part with a complete feature tree. A solid without history is still a fully usable working model. Every major CAD system edits these bodies through direct modeling: Siemens NX and Solid Edge (Synchronous Technology), PTC Creo (Flexible Modeling), SOLIDWORKS (Direct Editing). You can change dimensions, move faces, adjust holes and create drawings. For CAM, simulation, spare-part production and quoting, you don't need a feature tree at all. Are you planning variant families or long-term development of the part? Then a parametric model pays off, and you can upgrade any part to Engineer Built later.

Every result comes with an annotated drawing and a QA report. Each feature is marked as taken from the drawing, inferred, or unresolved, and you can measure the model directly in the browser to check it against the sheet.

Voluminate reconstructs each part up to three times and shows you the candidates side by side. Pick the one that fits best. Switching is free, and you only pay for the one you download.

Besides the native Onshape Part Studio: STEP, Parasolid (.x_t and .x_b), IGES, ACIS (.sat), JT, PVZ, Rhino (.3dm), STL, 3MF, OBJ, glTF and GLB.

Yes. Decades-old drawings, film scans and photos of the physical part all work as input. The QA report shows where poor legibility forced an assumption.

Every part runs automatically first, and only the ones that need it go to an engineer. During the pilot, we run large batches for you. Self-service batch upload is coming soon.

No. Voluminate shows what is drawing-defined, inferred and unresolved, along with a suitability verdict. A candidate may require more information or engineering work.

Not necessarily. Constraint coverage and editability depend on the source and the chosen route. Confirm the requirements for your part during pilot scoping.

There is no native integration yet. In the pilot we deliver all parts in one shared Onshape document that you copy into your workspace. Results from the three founding pilots decide the native integration, and founding customers get it first.

Automated processing can involve service providers. Human review is a separate part of the workflow. Read the current subprocessor disclosure and agree on any required confidentiality terms before sharing sensitive drawings. View subprocessors.

The first three Onshape teams get 50% off the standard price for their pilot. We agree the scope and price with you before any work begins, so you know the full price and your discount up front. Standard Voluminate options are on the pricing page.