Boost product design efficiency and quality with a powerful, integrated suite of computer-aided design (CAD) solutions. Remove barriers to innovation, design for sustainability and reduce development costs using our scalable, adaptable solutions for businesses of all sizes.
Customers demand complex, high-quality and sustainable products that are delivered fast. To stay competitive, you must develop and release innovative designs that meet the needs of a changing market in less time, at premium quality, with fewer issues and at competitive prices.
The problem in product design today is that many companies still use disconnected legacy design systems that do not support a holistic next-generation product design approach. To be successful, design must be fully integrated with simulation, validation, manufacturing and the rest of the product development process.
According to a CAD challenges and industry trends survey:
62% of engineers agree that history-based modeling can be powerful but inflexible. Concept design is slowed by pre-planning, imported models have to be recreated and making late-stage design changes is difficult.
49% of CAD users rank the ability to rapidly create initial designs as a significant concern, and an additional 40% say the ability to reuse existing designs is a top priority.
22% of CAD users say that collaboration with internal teams or design and manufacturing partners is a top challenge.
How can you design and deliver next-generation, high-quality products to market faster?
Implement an integrated mechanical product design solution to accelerate decision making and go-to-market. Increase productivity by up to 60% by enabling collaborative, simultaneous design across the globe.
As an integrated toolset, product design software supports every aspect of product development — preserving data integrity and design intent. It improves design for quality, safety and sustainability while enabling customization and optimizing costs.
Facilitate continuous collaboration between teams, customers and suppliers, reducing process waste, costs and design validation time.
Enable design reuse to save time, cut complexity and ensure quality. Permit easy modifications and experimentation with designs.
Allow integration with other solutions — Siemens and non-Siemens — to ensure a seamless and efficient end-to-end design process.
Offer pre-configured solutions to enable fast implementation and empower customers to leverage best practices and industry-specific workflows.
Unlock the digital twin of your product. Go beyond simple modeling and documentation with integrated tools that cover the entire product development process. Our software delivers a complete, integrated digital environment from initial concept design to detailed design to streamline collaboration.
Try NX CAD and discover the power of a leading mechanical product design software. No installation is needed, so you can start designing in minutes. Access preconfigured industry trials with licenses, sample models, data files and preloaded instruction files.
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The NX CAD experience goes beyond powerful software. You will be supported in your journey to success each step of the way.
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Before the adoption of NX, our development cycle took 12 to 14 months; with NX, we’ve reduced our development cycle to six to eight months. This is a significant result, not just because costs have been cut proportionally, but mostly because the capacity of our product development department has increased to such an extent that we can create an additional model each year.
Deployment options tailored for teams of all sizes include on-premise, a virtualized environment or a streamed service from a public cloud provider.
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Mechanical product design software solutions, also known as CAD, enable collaborative and simultaneous design across global teams. This increased flexibility helps companies improve quality and time-to-market while reducing costs. It allows engineers to reuse designs, easily share data, reduce complexity and ensure sustainability. Mechanical design software also allows for easy modifications and experimentation with designs to enable smooth customization.
Mechanical product design software solutions support every aspect of product development and can help your company gain a competitive edge. These solutions allow you to reuse designs, which will help you save time and ensure quality since the designs were already approved. You can easily modify and experiment with designs, which is especially helpful if you have to make changes frequently. Mechanical product design software solutions seamlessly integrate with other solutions to provide a more seamless and efficient design process.
Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computer programs to create, modify, analyze and document two- or three-dimensional (2D or 3D) graphical representations of physical objects as an alternative to manual drafts and product prototypes. CAD is widely used in computer animation and media special effects as well as in product and industrial design.
NX CAD is a mechanical product design solution developed by Siemens that helps companies boost product design efficiency and quality. It enables the most comprehensive digital twin of the product by seamlessly connecting teams, processes, systems and data involved in the product design.
It is the first major mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD) system to be certified as an open system that provides easy integration and has a proven track record of helping customers advance their data without disruption. It is the only CAD solution to support token licensing, a highly flexible approach to delivering add-on solutions. It is now available on the cloud, as-a-service (NX X), to help you accelerate your digital transformation easier, faster and at scale.
Solid Edge CAD is a Siemens technology that engineers, product developers and designers use to create functional, virtual prototypes of three-dimensional objects. With Solid Edge, designers can dynamically create and modify every detail of a product, part or assembly. 3D CAD software facilitates and automates other aspects of product engineering, such as simulation testing, drawing and drafting, manufacturing, data management, computer-generated animation, and more. These three-dimensional models can be used in simulation studies to predict how the object will respond to stress and environmental factors, they can be rendered to create photo-realistic images for use in sales and marketing materials and/or detailed drawings can be sent to manufacturing for production (or, in the case of additive manufacturing, the CAD file can be sent directly to a 3D printer).
Traditionally, there are two main approaches to creating and modifying geometry in 3D CAD: history-based (also known as ordered or feature-based) modeling or direct modeling. In history-based modeling, the structure and order of features control how models react to changes or edits. This creates predictable results from edits on underlying feature sketches using precise dimension changes. Direct modeling doesn't maintain a history of features or record how a model is built. There are no sketches driving features that make up the part. Editing is done by simply selecting what you want to change and changing it.
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Using NX CAD capabilities, which are available in three preconfigured solutions, you can find the right fit for your design needs. Each solution offers tailored functionality to meet specific product development roles, practices and processes for businesses of any size. Each NX CAD Mach bundle delivers complete capabilities for all stages of the product development process, from basic design through production.
Each solution includes everything you need to integrate with a product lifecycle management solution, enabling you to extend engineering process management tools via scalable collaboration and advanced management. NX CAD offers preconfigured capabilities for various industries and users, allowing you to leverage best practices and industry-specific workflows.
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