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NX CAD software products

With integrated CAD, CAM, CAE, additive manufacturing (AM) and more, NX provides a complete solution for design, manufacturing and collaboration—empowering companies of all sizes to remove barriers to innovation. Discover the 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. With multiple tiers and the ability to expand functionality with nearly 100 NX-native add-on modules, your investment is future-proof. With NX X Design solutions, you can seamlessly scale up or down, access additional capabilities as needed with a single subscription and collaborate with your teams—all while staying on the same architecture.

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 functionality.

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NX X Design solutions for CAD

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 high-performance design capabilities of NX software in a secure, cloud-based (SaaS) environment. The NX X Design solutions feature full interoperability and data sharing across other Siemens Xcelerator solutions, including all NX CAD and CAM modules.

Start with either NX X Design Essentials, Standard, Advanced or Premium, then you can use NX CAD add-ons to extend capabilities as needed.

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All NX X Design solutions & NX X add-on module tokens

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

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NX X 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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NX X Design 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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NX X Design 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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NX X Design 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 Design 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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