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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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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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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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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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Reviews and Ratings

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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.
  • It has simple commands for 3D Modeling
  • Its User interface is very simple
  • It is user friendly & supports team PLM
  • They Can add simulation for Plastics & FEA
  • They need to improve their updates & cost
  • They can improve their new versions & remove bugs
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.
  • Siemens NX CAD library helps in easy modeling reference
  • Siemens NX CAD supports importing from other formats & translation from other software saving time
  • Siemens NX CAD has simple PLM management for tracking of project & model revisions
Siemens NX CAD has been has been simple in design & user interface. It is best among the competitors. It can develop heavy models & designs with very ease. It has Layers options for arranging multiple assemblies in the same file. It does not require heavy system investment & works fine on professional PCs
Siemens NX CAD has helped us improve team communication & transparency. It helps us track project progress & revisions in the same panel. It records all the time & data in the system. It has PLM function for team collaboration & progress. We are using PLM for better team communication & tracking project & maintaining data of all projects systematically.
Siemens NX CAD is having very simple layout as compared to other competitors. It supports many numbers of file formats & translation to other software. It supports easy conversion of 3D to 2D. It supports PLM for project & Data Management. It is very versatile & supports Mold Wizard , Sheet Metal, Electric Design, Progressive Die & many dedicated modules.
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
  • 3d modelling
  • Motion analysis
  • Detailed drawings
  • Accountability of users history with parts
  • The speed at which it processes large parts
  • Ease of dimensioning complex geometry in drawings
  • Improving the user interface to make it more in line with most other software currently on the market and making it feel like its in 2022
  • Being able to show more than one measurement on the screen at the same time.
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.
  • There is a big benefit for the approval process
  • Revion control
Compared to other Cad software which it competes against, it's by far the least user-friendly out there. As most of the user interface seems to be in line with the Windows XP era. The way some features are used is very dated, going back to how early cad software was used back in the 80/90 and has not been designed for younger users. Nor is it similar to another type of software out today making it harder to get used to it
Siemens NX CAD does allow for better collaboration with users downstream of the process, but not for better collaboration in real-time like other packages are now offering. The biggest saving grace of Siemens NX is its process management for understanding who has had items open and for seeing who has signed for each process and product making traceability easy
The only reason why NX was chosen was due to the process management, and revision control that's built-in. And being able to limit access to files and if they can be modified.
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.
  • Modeling
  • The thing that I need to keep all the parts, usually in common with other assemblies, in the same folder is very uncomfortable if I need to revise a single component.
  • I would prefer to have 1 file for each part and just select it when needed. (with Solidedge this is possible).
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.
  • Siemens NX CAD made much faster studying and modeling tooling and product assemblies
Because even after a few years I still find it easier to use, customize and set other programs such as Solidedge or Solidworks.
Siemens NX CAD was useful in the designing process in the same way any other 3d modeling software would have been. For a matter of a collaborator using Siemens NX CAD, we have chosen this software.
I find DraftSight as a pure 2d integration of Siemens NX CAD. They don't collide, they are useful for different needs.
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