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NX CAD

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What is NX CAD?

Siemens NX software is an integrated product design solution that helps deliver products faster and more efficiently. NX delivers design, simulation, and manufacturing solutions that enable companies to realize the value of the digital twin.

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Recent Reviews

The direction is good!

9 out of 10
April 10, 2024
We use the NX for Mold Designing. Start it with the product design via the mold design until the CAM programs. The most difficult the …
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For Smart Factory use

9 out of 10
July 14, 2023
Incentivized
Our company is using Siemens NX CAD for designing processes, Template creation, or generating Drawings. Also it is used in our Automation …
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NX CAD Review

7 out of 10
July 14, 2023
Incentivized
We use NX CAD for automated 3D and 2D modelling as well as creating templates in order to standardise the design process. We use complex …
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My Review

10 out of 10
July 12, 2023
Incentivized
Working and Creating Templates for Standardization. We use Complex Templates white over 7000 Expressions in combination with white PTS and …
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Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Food & Beverages Company, 51-200 employees
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Consultant in Engineering
Design Company, 1-10 employees
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What is NX CAD?

Siemens NX software is an integrated product design solution that helps deliver products faster and more efficiently. NX delivers design, simulation, and manufacturing solutions that enable companies to realize the value of the digital twin.

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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Demos

NX CAD Sketch Beginners Tutorial#16 | Sketch Exercise | Practice | demo.

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Designing Flat Solid Flat pattern using NX CAD | Course Demo

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Product Details

What is NX CAD?

Siemens NX software is an integrated solution that aims to help users deliver better products faster and more efficiently. NX delivers design, simulation, and manufacturing solutions that enable companies to realize the value of the digital twin.

Supporting every aspect of product development, from concept design through engineering and manufacturing, NX gives users an integrated toolset that coordinates disciplines, preserves data integrity and design intent, and streamlines the entire process.

Siemens NX CAD is a product development solution: NX for Design offers features and capabilities to help get a product to market faster.

NX for Design aims to enable users to deliver products “right to market, first time" using more virtual product models and fewer, more costly, physical prototypes. This is to drive market gains, lower development costs, and improved product quality.

NX CAD Screenshots

Screenshot of NX technology can generate multiple design options. (It's like having an extra employee dedicated to "trying out" different designs.) Then Additive Manufacturing (3D printing) can be used to generate the part.Screenshot of Studies show an inordinate amount of time can be spent by designers as they look for previous or similar parts. The software can search for similarly-shaped parts.Screenshot of NX has the ability to validate a part (or assembly) and its adherence to standards, collisions, and manufacturability.Screenshot of Virtual inspection and mark up full sized assemblies.Screenshot of a rendering created from the actual product design. Notice the lighting and surface realism.

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NX CAD Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows
Mobile ApplicationNo

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Frequently Asked Questions

Siemens NX software is an integrated product design solution that helps deliver products faster and more efficiently. NX delivers design, simulation, and manufacturing solutions that enable companies to realize the value of the digital twin.

SOLIDWORKS, CATIA, and PTC Creo are common alternatives for NX CAD.

Reviewers rate Implementation Rating highest, with a score of 7.4.

The most common users of NX CAD are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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July 14, 2023

NX CAD Review - from an academic researcher perspective

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Sara Wang
Research Fellow
University of Nottingham (Aviation & Aerospace, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
NX CAD is very good when it comes to three dimensional modelling and rendering and visualization. Furthermore, the export to jt function together with import into other Siemens software packages, such as Teamcenter, is a major reason why I am using NX. However, it can be a little more computationally expensive compare to other CAD packages.
July 14, 2023

For Smart Factory use

Verified User
Program Manager in Information Technology
Automotive Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
As a beginner in NX Programming it is difficult to lern it without access to the solutioncenter. There should be more examples and Tutorials supported for a open community. Also the Journal function should generate more code which is dynamically then doing the a one shot command. This also could help for non programmers getting in contact with NXOpen.
July 14, 2023

NX CAD Review

Verified User
Administrative Assistant in Information Technology
Automotive Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
NX CAD does help us with our automation efforts of the product design processes and also supports digitalisation efforts in manufacturing, for example by using the CAM module. The Template options also help a lot reaching these goals.
We miss an easy way to integrate NXOpen in Webservices and using it in a multithreaded way.
July 12, 2023

My Review

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Automotive Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It works well fine for Customization and automation. It works well for creating complex templates in Combination with white PTS and/or rules team. It helps a lot with the digitization and standardization process. There are some limits in the API. There is no easy way to create web services and using the nxopen API.
July 11, 2023

NX CAD with Teamcenter

Verified User
Team Lead in Professional Services
Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It allows good use of the API programming own applications for it. On the same side, it would be very helpful to sometime have better help or documentation of the API or someone on the support team who could help out with that.
July 11, 2023

Best program for the design

Verified User
Administrator in Research & Development
Automotive Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Creation of sketch are easy, and the workflow direct on the model is perfect. The designer can work direct on the 3d model and doesn't need to move much on the screen. This is a big benefit for the designer because they need less moving time and the construction is super fast.
September 27, 2022

Siemens NX CAD is a very versatile 3D Modeling software

AK
Abrar Khan
Product Design/Development Engineer
Jyoti Plastic works Pvt Ltd (Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering, 201-500 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Siemens NX CAD support team is very responsive & active. They are having updates very frequently & good layout for commands & User interface. They have commands simple to use & operate on low configuration systems. Siemens NX CAD supports 3D modeling , 2D drafting. It has options for CAD library which is very useful for similar projects & easy reference.
June 17, 2022

Good management system for a Cad package

Matt McAuley AMIMechE | TrustRadius Reviewer
Matt McAuley AMIMechE
Design Engineer
Princess Yachts (Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It's great for complex and large projects eg the automotive or aerospace industry as it. It has a good way of managing and controlling all the large volumes of models. But it's not suited for doing small projects quickly on the other hand. Like one-off bespoke designs.
June 16, 2022

Good 3d software, but not the best in being user-friendly.

LW
Luca Wilden
Junior Engineer
Wilden (Plastics, 11-50 employees)
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Even after years of using it I still find it more user-friendly and easy to customize and use programs such as Solidedge or Solidworks. The things that I cannot order constraints in an assembly are uncomfortable. The thing is that if I delete a function while modeling a component the error message never goes away, even if I correct and refresh is uncomfortable.
February 28, 2015

Siemens PLM-NX user review

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Railroad Manufacture Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend

How many departments will be using the product?

How does each department or area within any given company work with or rely on each other? You have to know or be able to create a streamlined approach to doing work for the PLM software to really work. The software adds a lot of necessary structure.

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