Experience design reviews in a 3D immersive environment to interact and explore your models. You can utilize VR headsets and hand controllers to navigate, interact, and review your CAD models within this immersive space.
Immersive CAD
NX Immersive Explorer
Visualize and review CAD data in an immersive and interactive VR or desktop experience. Explore and develop designs before committing resources to physical prototyping, all within a fully-immersive and comprehensive environment.
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NX Immersive Explorer
Watch the video to learn more about NX Immersive Explorer. This add-on module is available through Value Based Licensing in the December 2023 release of NX CAD and newer.
NX Immersive Explorer benefits
- View models within a 3D immersive environment for design reviews
- Use the hand controllers to interact with designs in the virtual space
- View cross sections of your model to understand internal structure
- Move freely around your designs and environments
- Apply real-world scenes to model surroundings
- Supports most VR HMD kits as standard through OpenXR
Immersive design reviews
Model environment scenes
Enhance model visualizations and changing scenes to surrounding environments to add context to your designs. You can navigate through these design environments and move freely in all directions or instantly teleport to specific locations—even onto platforms.
Design note markups
Effortlessly gather your design notes and review team feedback in the immersive environment. Create markups, annotations, and sticky notes all within the immersive environment to capture comments, input, and reminders during design reviews.
Hand controller interaction
Study design efficiency by using the hand controllers to manipulate your designs. Explore efficient review workflows and immersively interact with models as well as individual parts—including component grabbing and repositioning.
Assembly Navigator display
Navigate and interact with the Assembly Navigator while in VR mode for enhanced immersion. This simulated control display exists within the application and provides you with the capability to move, rotate, and scale components.
Sectioning of models
View the cross-section of an assembly in any orientation to review the internal arrangement of parts. This unique immersive tool enables you to better visualize and understand interior features while providing overall design clarity.
Snapshots for design reviews
Capture DMU snapshots instantly from your current designs and save them to the library. Retrieving a snapshot will restore all scene data visible at the time of its capture—a useful tool for documenting design iterations and revisiting models during team reviews.
3D immersive experience on 2D monitors
Visualize models in a virtual 3D space using a traditional 2D monitor, no headset needed! You can enter the virtual environment without a headset and navigate scenes in full-screen immersive to gain additional insights into your designs.
NX CAD value-based licensing
Experience NX Immersive Explorer with token licensing
The NX Immersive Explorer module is immediately available in NX CAD through Value Based Licensing. This stunning level of visual fidelity paired with dynamic NX software enables you to naturally experience, interact and validate digital twins in a photo-real virtual world.
Elevate your immersion with NX Immersive Designer
Launching later this year, Siemens has partnered with Sony to create an exclusive immersive engineering XR head-mounted display (HMD) to be used exclusively with NX™ Immersive Designer software.
The Sony HMD delivers the most precise and natural way to experience, interact, and collaborate in 3D. Stunning visual fidelity, matched with dynamic software and hardware integration, enables users to experience Immersive Engineering with the smoothest, most seamless workflows.
A transformative tool to be used throughout the entire Siemens Xcelerator portfolio, the SONY HMD amplifies possibility by bridging the gap between the real and digital worlds.
