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Designcenter NX CAD software products

With integrated CAD, CAM, CAE, additive manufacturing (AM) and more, Designceter NX provides a complete solution for design, manufacturing and collaboration—empowering companies of all sizes to remove barriers to innovation. Discover the Designcenter NX CAD engineering and design products below.

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Powerful, future-proof CAD

Choose between four prepackaged CAD solutions and explore the benefits of flexible, cost-effective token licensing for comprehensive digital thread development. With multiple tiers and the ability to expand functionality with nearly 140 Designcenter NX-native add-on modules, your investment is future-proof. With Designcenter X NX solutions, you can seamlessly scale up or down, access additional capabilities as needed with a single token subscription and collaborate with your teams—all while staying on the same architecture.

Designcenter NX CAD is part of the Designcenter suite from Siemens. With Designcenter, you can accelerate product development and create the most comprehensive digital twin with unmatched scalability, flexibility and comprehensive functionality.

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Designcenter X NX CAD solutions

Empower your team with all the capabilities they need to design innovative, high-quality parts and products and collaborate effectively to bring them to life faster, while reducing prototyping costs.

From basic design through production, these four preconfigured CAD solutions deliver the multidisciplinary, high-performance design capabilities of Designcenter NX software in a secure, cloud-based (SaaS) environment, allowing you to scale up or down as needed. The Designcenter X NX solutions feature full interoperability and data sharing across other Siemens Xcelerator solutions—including all Designcenter NX CAD and NX CAM modules—enabling seamless flexibility that allows you to connect your comprehensive digital twin across a digital thread.

Start with either Designcenter X NX Essentials, Standard, Advanced or Premium, then you can access Designcenter X NX CAD add-ons with Designcenter X NX Value Based Licensing tokens to extend capabilities as needed.

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Interested? Try Designcenter X NX for 30 days with our free CAD software trial.

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All Designcenter X NX solutions & add-on module tokens

Discover the details of each scalable Designcenter X NX solution tier and how to access additional functionality via floating, token-licensing. A core seat license of Designcenter X NX Standard, Advanced or Premium is a prerequisite for Designcenter X NX Value Based Licensing.

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Designcenter X NX Essentials

Browser-based essential NX CAD, CAM and CAE tools. Create and edit NX data in a lightweight experience, with zero translation, from anywhere. Leverage design data for cross-departmental needs, such as creating drawings.
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Designcenter X NX Standard

NX X Design Standard is a powerful CAD solution that allows you to create and edit designs of typical 3D parts and assemblies. It features solid modeling and drafting, basic freeform modeling, sheet metal design and more.
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Designcenter X NX Advanced

NX X Design Advanced builds on NX X Design Standard to reduce design time and boost design efficiency and quality through user-defined templates, automated real-time validation, photorealistic rendering, 3D annotation and more.
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Designcenter X NX Premium

Includes all CAD features of NX X Design Standard and Advanced, with additional advanced tools for complex design challenges enabling electro-mechanical design integration with tools for flexible PCB design.
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NX X Value Based Licensing (50 count)

NX X Value Based Licensing tokens provide a flexible and cost effective solution for running NX X product engineering add-on modules without the need for individual purchases. Users can leverage tokens on new products from day 1.

Compare four scalable tiers of Designcenter X NX solutions' features side-by-side.

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Discover more information about system requirements, deployment and purchase options, add-modules and token-licensing, data management, and interoperability and integration with other products.

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