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We are bringing you the most powerful and integrated Design, Simulation, and Manufacturing software for free. Kick-start your design career with this free student edition trial of NX!


Stuck inside? Wanting to explore software that the most innovative companies around the globe are using to design, simulate, and manufacture their products? Then try our NX software for free here (only available for Windows 64-bit).

What’s included in the trial?

  • Comprehensive 3D design tools including wire-frame, surface, solid, and synchronous modeling
  • Full suite of CAM programming tools to allow creation of NC data for 2- to 5-axis and wire-edm machine tools
  • Sophisticated freeform shape modeling, surface continuity, analysis, and visualization tools
  • Output to 3D printing format supported

How to access

  • Visit our download page here
  • Sign up with an account. You can either create your own, or sign in with your Google or LinkedIn account
  • Confirm your email address
  • Download NX and start designing

Trial Restrictions

  • Watermarks are added to printed and plotted data, to prevent the NX Student Edition from being used for commercial work
  • Part files created in NX Student Edition cannot be retrieved in a commercial version of NX, but can be retrieved in the full academic packages available to educational establishments
  • CAM data is not available for post-processing, and the displayed output of tool path information has limited precision

We are extremely excited to provide a free version of NX to you, and we can’t wait to hear what you can accomplish with NX.


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