Jon Hirschtick is a CAD software developer, founder and former CEO of

SolidWorks SolidWorks is a solid modeling computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided engineering (CAE) application published by Dassault Systèmes. According to the publisher, over two million engineers and designers at more than 165,000 companies we ...

, a popular solid modeling 3D

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and CAE system for

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, and

Onshape Onshape is a computer-aided design (CAD) software system, delivered over the Internet via a software as a service (SAAS) model. It makes extensive use of cloud computing, with compute-intensive processing and rendering performed on Internet-bas ...

, a cloud platform for product development that includes tools for CAD, data management, collaboration, workflow, analytics, etc.

Education

Hirschtick holds a Bachelors and Masters' degree from MIT, graduating in 1986.

Career

Hirschtick was director of engineering at

Computervision Computervision, Inc. (CV) was an early pioneer in Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing (CAD/ CAM). Computervision was founded in 1969 by Marty Allen and Philippe Villers, and headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, United States. Its early ...

from 1981-1983, and a manager at the MIT CADLab. He was a player and instructor on the

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featured in the movies 21 and

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. Hirschtick founded the SolidWorks Corporation in 1993 using $1 million he made while a member of the

. Under his leadership, SolidWorks revenue eventually grew to $600 million. When Solidworks was acquired by Dassault Systèmes in 1997, Hirschtick continued on as CEO and then a group executive for the next 14 years. In October 2011, Hirschtick left Solidworks and in 2012 founded Belmont Technology (later changed to Onshape) with other members of the original SolidWorks team. Hirschtick is currently CEO at Onshape. In October 2019 Onshape entered into an agreement to be acquired by PTC. Hirschtick was awarded the CAD Society Leadership Award, joining

Autodesk Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational software corporation that makes software products and services for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, education, and entertainment industries. Autodesk is headquartered ...

’s

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’ Bernard Charles, and 3D Systems's Ping Fu, and is a recipient of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Leadership Award. He is a member of the Advisory Board at

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ...

and Arcbazar, where he was once director, and is an advisor to

Magic Leap Magic Leap, Inc. is an American technology company that released a head-mounted virtual retinal display, called ''Magic Leap One'', which superimposes 3D computer-generated imagery over real world objects, by "projecting a digital light field ...

and MarkForged, Inc.

References

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