Onshape (PTC): every document made on the free plan is public and open to anyone to use and sell (Onshape Terms of Use (PTC Inc., acting through its Onshape business unit), Effective Date July 15, 2020, Your Content, Public Documents)
Anything made on Onshape's free plan (and any document set to public) carries an unrestricted licence to anyone who can see it, including the right to sell copies. A company cannot offer such documents to an AI buyer as exclusive or unique, and the buyer may already hold or be allowed to copy them.
Dated 29 Oct 2026Source checked 29 Oct 2026Basis: primary text
In the source's own words
“All documents created by a Free Plan User, and all Content contained therein, is made public and therefore considered a Public Document. ... Customer grants a worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license to any End User or third party accessing the Public Document to use the intellectual property contained in Customer’s Public Document without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Document, and to permit persons to whom the Document is made available to do the same.”
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- Onshape (PTC): the customer owns its files, designs, models and the service's output (Onshape Terms of Use (PTC Inc., acting through its Onshape business unit), Effective Date July 15, 2020, Your Content, Ownership)
- Onshape (PTC): free versions are for non-commercial creating and editing, commercial design work needs a paid plan (Onshape Terms of Use (PTC Inc., acting through its Onshape business unit), Effective Date July 15, 2020, Usage Restrictions, Trial or Free Versions)
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