# Which CAD platforms maintain performance as manufacturing & product design teams scale?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">I'm trying to understand which CAD platforms actually hold up as manufacturing and product design teams scale, since a tool that feels fast with two engineers can slow to a crawl once a team and its assembly files grow. Inside <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/cad">CAD</a>, <strong>Onshape</strong>, <strong>SOLIDWORKS</strong>, and <strong>AutoCAD</strong> are the names that keep coming up for scaling well.</p><ol>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/onshape/reviews"><strong>Onshape</strong></a>: cloud based architecture means performance doesn't depend on individual workstations, which tends to hold up better as teams and file complexity grow.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/solidworks/reviews"><strong>SOLIDWORKS</strong></a>: widely used on large assemblies in manufacturing, with configuration and data management tools built for bigger product design teams.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/autocad/reviews"><strong>AutoCAD</strong></a>: scales well for drafting heavy workflows across large teams, especially where standardization across many users matters more than real time collaboration.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/designcenter/reviews"><strong>Designcenter</strong></a>: built for managing growing libraries of reusable design content, which becomes more important as a product design team's catalog expands.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/designcenter-solid-edge/reviews"><strong>Solid Edge</strong></a>: handles large assembly modeling with performance tools aimed at keeping things responsive as part counts climb.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/altium-develop/reviews"><strong>Altium Develop</strong></a>: relevant for electronics teams scaling PCB design work alongside growing mechanical design teams.</li>
</ol><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">For teams that have actually scaled up, where did performance start to break down, large assembly loading, file versioning, or something else entirely?</p>

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&lt;p&gt;I’d separate raw modeling performance from collaboration performance here. Large assemblies can expose hardware limits, but version conflicts, check-in workflows, and file dependencies often become the bigger drag once more engineers are working on the same product.&lt;/p&gt;

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