# John McEleney > John McEleney is co-founder of Onshape. Onshape on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/john-mceleney/ - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/john-mceleney/index.md (~750 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/john-mceleney/index.min.md (~530 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/john-mceleney/index.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json) - Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (the key docs and every listing in one file, at most 16 MB, about 4 million tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt) - API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json - MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (the whole catalogue as tools, no key) - DNS: dig +short TXT .grade.anchorterminal.com (the grade as a DNS TXT record, for a sandbox with no HTTP where names still resolve; also top., best.. and .vs.. under the zone, and the same under grade.letme.dev) - Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data) - Updated: 2026-11-03 Co-founder, Onshape. John McEleney co-founded Onshape in 2012 with Jon Hirschtick. Both had earlier been chief executives of SolidWorks. ## What John builds - [Onshape](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/onshape.md), graded C, 55.7/100, in CAD, engineering & fabrication. Onshape is PTC's cloud CAD platform. Its REST API reads and changes documents, Part Studios, assemblies and drawings with API keys or OAuth 2.0, and the FeatureScript MCP Server in Onshape Labs lets an assistant write FeatureScript into a document. Co-founder, Onshape, researched 2026-11-03. ## Works with - [Jon Hirschtick](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jon-hirschtick/), Co-founder, Onshape - [Neil Barua](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/neil-barua/), President and Chief Executive Officer, PTC ## Questions ### Who is John McEleney? John McEleney co-founded Onshape in 2012 with Jon Hirschtick. Both had earlier been chief executives of SolidWorks. ### What does PTC Inc. (Onshape business unit) make? Anchor Terminal lists Onshape from PTC Inc. (Onshape business unit). Onshape is PTC's cloud CAD platform. Its REST API reads and changes documents, Part Studios, assemblies and drawings with API keys or OAuth 2.0, and the FeatureScript MCP Server in Onshape Labs lets an assistant write FeatureScript into a document. ### How are John's tools graded? Onshape is graded C, 55.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist. ## Sources - https://onshape-public.github.io/docs/help/ - https://www.onshape.com/en/ - https://www.onshape.com/en/legal/terms-of-use - https://www.onshape.com/en/security - https://api.github.com/orgs/onshape-public/repos?per_page=100&sort=pushed - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onshape - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTC_(software_company) These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. If a page is about you, link your account from it to write the about and set the links yourself. For a photo, a correction or to have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com. --- Query this catalogue directly over MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, no key). How: https://www.anchorterminal.com/agents/#mcp