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NX CAD deployment and bundle options

Deploy NX on-premise, through SaaS, as a virtualized environment or as a streamed service from a public cloud provider. With a cloud product offering, you can buy the award-winning NX CAD as a subscription. Our flexible cloud-connected licensing reduces your IT and maintenance expenses.

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Essayez NX X : notre solution CAO en mode SaaS

NX X est la version SaaS cloud de NX, offrant toute la puissance des capacités de conception de NX à travers trois options de licences évolutives. NX X peut être facilement installé sur vos appareils pour une connectivité transparente. Avec cette solution basée sur l'architecture NX, vous pouvez continuer à collaborer entre les disciplines sans aucune perte de données, en toute confiance grâce aux capacités sécurisées de gestion des données.

Essayez avant d'acheter en téléchargeant une version d'essai de 30 jours.

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Deployment options

NX is available via perpetual licensing, subscription and rental options

Get an integrated toolset that coordinates disciplines and preserves data integrity and design intent. From concept design through engineering and manufacturing, NX streamlines the entire process.

Whether you want to use NX from the cloud or host it in your IT environment, Siemens' NX CAD has licensing options for how you work. You'll have the same exact features no matter how you choose to run NX CAD. The choice is yours.

Deployment options include:

  • Traditional on-premise
  • On the cloud (streamed service from AWS or Microsoft Azure)
  • As SaaS, with NX X
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Continuous release

Depend on the NX Continuous Release process to reduce time between upgrades and new product features, deployment time and deployment costs and risks, and to drive innovation that helps you succeed in your markets.

Slow release cadences limit the ability to deliver new innovations. We strive to accelerate our innovation cycle in order to deliver new capabilities that add value to your operations on a standard, dependable cadence.

New add-on modules are available every 6 months through Continuous Release.

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Investment protection

Access your old data whenever you want to. NX enables you to use data from previous NX and Unigraphics releases in the current NX release, going back to the first Unigraphics release (approximately 1984). No translations. No rework.

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Add-on modules and tokens

Extend and enhance the functionality of NX products with add-on modules.

The NX software offerings provide preconfigured solutions that are targeted to specific product development disciplines and problems. NX add-ons enable you to configure these solutions to your specific requirements with specialized design tools, standard parts applications, design-integrated simulation solutions, programming and customization toolkits, and direct translators.

Here's how it works:

  • Buy a fixed number of tokens for use across your users, allowing them to use any token-enabled product as long as they don’t exceed the combined token count purchased
  • Access (check-in/check-out) over 80 different NX applications currently in the token pool
  • Consume a defined number of tokens when each NX application in the token pool is in use
  • When you exit NX, the token amount is released so users can start up other software options
  • Use new add-on products with your internal purchasing team as they are added to the pool without additional effort

Value-based licensing tokens are available in value packs. They provide a flexible and cost-effective way for you to run almost any NX product engineering add-on. It provides a large cost savings for companies that run a wide variety of applications on an occasional basis.

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UI/Adaptive UI and help

Leverage the NX expert personal assistant. It uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to track and learn from your actions. It then predicts the NX commands you will likely use next and presents those commands on a compact, adaptive user interface (UI) panel.

For example, if you’re working with sheet metal (or tool or casting design), it knows that a certain sequence of commands are used. It then starts presenting commands that you may need next—it understands that there's a sequence.

The ML and AI-enabled UI can also predict and serve commands to you based on learned command usage patterns. It provides design environment personalization by considering the differences in knowledge, style and preferences. Leveraging and sharing of learned command usage data enables a reduced learning curve, promotes use of domain and/or industry-specific best practices and increases productivity.

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On-demand webinar

Visualizing the digital twin for heavy equipment

Learn about NX Virtual Reality and NX Render, and how members of remote teams can visualize a 3D digital twin simultaneously with NX for design.

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Découvrez les produits NX CAD

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NX CAD

NX X Design Standard

NX X Design Standard est une solution d'entrée de gamme permettant de créer et d'éditer des pièces et des assemblages 3D typiques. Elle inclut : mise en plan, modélisation volumique, modélisation de formes libres de base et conception de tôlerie.
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NX CAD

NX X Design Advanced

NX X Design Advanced accélère la conception et stimule l'efficacité et la qualité avec des modèles définis par l'utilisateur, une validation automatisée en temps réel, un rendu photoréaliste, une annotation 3D et bien plus encore.
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NX CAD

NX X Design Premium

Inclut toutes les fonctionnalités CAO de NX X Design Standard et Advanced, avec des outils avancés supplémentaires pour les conceptions complexes. Il intègre la conception électromécanique avec des outils pour la conception flexible de circuits imprimés.
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NX CAD

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.