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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
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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
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Working and Creating Templates for Standardization. We use Complex Templates white over 7000 Expressions in combination with white PTS and …
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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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  • No setup fee

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  • 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.

NX CAD Videos

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Generative Engineering
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Electro-Mechanical Design

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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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We needed a CAD platform that works with the Siemens tool chain, that supports basic 3D modelling functionality, offers import and export capability for other types of CAD software, such as CATIA v5, SOLIDWORKS and PTC Creo etc, at the same time, offers the linked other properties, like mass, material, possibly further simulation functionalities.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our company is using Siemens NX CAD for designing processes, Template creation, or generating Drawings. Also it is used in our Automation line project for our new Engineering to Order Process. Also it is integrated into our Product lifecycle management process. Therefore we are using the Programming Interfaces NXOpen with Java.
July 14, 2023

NX CAD Review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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 Templates with thousands of Expressions in combination with PTS and Rulestream for quick and standardised construction processes. NX CAD is used in combination with Teamcenter (PDM/PLM Software)
July 12, 2023

My Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Working and Creating Templates for Standardization. We use Complex Templates white over 7000 Expressions in combination with white PTS and Or and rule-stream for quick and Standard construction processes. In addition, we use a lot of custom nxprene programs to create automatic drawings and the CAM part, and after that, the NC files and a lot of other data for automatic production in combination with white Teamcenter.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use NX CAD to design our products. As we do a lot of simulation with external tools, our problems are to integrate CAD data and Simulation. Further, we would like to improve our work with NX CAD and Teamcenter as well as Teamcenter Simulation.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using NX CAD in the design and calculation. At the moment, we roll out in all plants and we need to train all the users in the best way to use it. Different departments use NX CAD for creation of the product, support and maintain the product. The problems are only in the mindset of the user, not in the program.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
NX CAD is used for the design of injection molds. The whole design of the parts, including cooling and standard parts, are made in NX CAD. As a quite new part structural simulations are also made with NX CAD.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
NX is our main CAD software tool in the company. Our whole components, appliances, and fixtures/tools are designed with NX. We build up 150% of the assemblies of our appliance. Right now we are starting with MBD, where also our main problems are located, due to some missing functionalities or not fully supported functions, like mirrored parts with PMI.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Siemens NX CAD is being daily used for 3D Design & Drafting. It has simple User Interface & Multiple commands. It is user friendly. Very important 3D Modeling commands. It Supports 3D Modeling, Mold wizard, Sheet Metal, 2D Drafting, Assembly, Progressive Die tools, etc. It supports multiple export formats like, .x_t, iges, step, sldprt , etc.
Matt McAuley  AMIMechE | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Siemens NX CAD to fully develop and Design components and assemblies into the final product to visualize the product as well as to create manufacturing drawings. Siemens NX CAD works well as a whole product system to work within all development teams, as well as having traceable on who has parts open, and the history of changes
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Siemens NX CAD is mainly used by us o draw and archive 3d and 2d technical drawings of tooling and product assemblies. For example testing tools for plastic products, we engineer and produce. Tooling can also be composed of many sub-components. We also need to manage 3d assemblies to create exploded drawings and assembly instructions.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Norfolk Southern's equipment design and equipment manufacturing facility is made up of a 6 person engineering team that is responsible for designing and developing new and preexisting machines for Norfolk Southern. For a smaller design team, we really are only involved with the design and product development side of Siemens PLM software through the use of NX CAD, NX Nastran, and NX Cam. Having just recently purchased NX Cam, we have greatly increased the amount of products being produced while significantly increasing our products overall quality.
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