NX X Manufacturing Premium

Advanced 5-Axis Simultaneous Milling


NX simplifies the programming of complex, multi-sided parts through its advanced 5-axis simultaneous milling capabilities. With minimal user input, the software automatically generates optimized toolpaths for intricate geometries, enabling machining in a single setup and significantly reducing the need for part repositioning. The intelligent tool control features — including automatic tool orientation and dynamic lead/lag angle adjustments — ensure precise engagement between the tool and the part surface. This leads to smoother toolpaths, superior surface finishes, and high-quality results even on challenging contours and undercuts. Additionally, the integrated collision avoidance system continuously monitors and adjusts toolpaths in real time, ensuring safe and efficient machining operations while maximizing material removal and tool life.

4-Axis Rotary Machining


Simplify the complex task of programming roughing operations for cylindrical and conical parts with NX’s advanced 4-axis rotary machining capabilities. With minimal input, NX automatically identifies the machining material and generates optimized milling operations tailored for efficiency and precision. Advanced toolpath controls — including tool contact shift and point density adjustments — enable smooth, highly efficient multi-axis roughing operations. The helical entry feature ensures gradual engagement with the material, enhancing tool life and improving the overall machining process. Additionally, the rest roughing capability intelligently detects and removes uncut material from previous operations, ensuring complete and consistent material removal for superior results.

B-Axis Turning


Simplify the programming of complex parts that traditionally require multiple setups and tools with B-axis turning in NX. This advanced functionality enables you to define the tool’s variable axis orientation, allowing for greater flexibility and precision in multi-operation machining.


The advanced control settings provide precise management of the created operations. Two interpolation modes — Absolute and Relative — offer flexibility to program even the most challenging jobs on modern mill-turn machines, which combine profile turning with continuous tool axis orientation.


By leveraging B-axis turning, manufacturers can reduce the number of setups, operations, and tools required, resulting in increased productivity, reduced cycle times, and improved machining efficiency.

Advanced Surface Finishing


Achieve exceptional surface quality with Advanced Surface Finishing tools designed for high-precision components. The Guiding Curves feature enables precise control over tool movement by following user-defined paths, ensuring smooth transitions and flawless finishes even on the most complex surfaces.


With Surface Contouring, you can effortlessly generate toolpaths that follow the natural shape of the part, allowing for consistent and efficient finishing across intricate geometries. This ensures that fine details are preserved while maintaining superior surface integrity.


Barrel Milling further enhances finishing efficiency by utilizing large-radius tools that cover more surface area in fewer passes, significantly reducing cycle times without compromising on quality.


Together, these advanced finishing capabilities empower you to produce parts that meet the highest standards of precision and surface excellence, while achieving faster turnaround times and improved productivity.

Integrated CAD Capabilities in NX CAM


NX CAM offers industry-leading CAD tools for modeling, editing, and assembly, significantly accelerating the CNC programming process. With integrated translators, you can seamlessly import all standard data formats, including IGES, DXF, STEP, STL, and JT, ensuring smooth interoperability across different systems.


Synchronous Technology in NX enables direct editing of part models to efficiently prepare them for NC programming. You can easily close holes and gaps, offset faces, or resize part features. Additionally, it allows you to develop as-cast models or other design derivatives from existing parts by interactively pushing and pulling existing faces.


The assembly tools provide the capability to create a complete digital replica of your manufacturing setup, including the part, fixtures, table, and CNC machine. This enables the creation of optimized toolpaths that automatically avoid collisions with workholding components, ensuring safe, accurate, and error-free production.


Furthermore, full associativity between the part model and machining operations ensures automatic updates whenever design changes occur. This integrated approach enhances consistency, reduces rework, and maintains alignment between design and manufacturing throughout the production process.

Accurate G-Code-Driven Simulation


Ensure error-free machining with G-code-driven simulation in NX X Manufacturing. This advanced simulation capability displays machine motion directly driven by the NC code output, using a detailed 3D digital model of the machine — including the part, fixtures, and tooling — to replicate exactly how the machine tool will move in real operations.


NX X Manufacturing provides multiple levels of simulation, ranging from basic toolpath verification to full-scale machining simulation that includes a complete digital twin of the machine tool. With collision checking and multi-channel synchronization performed directly from the G-code, you achieve the highest level of accuracy and confidence before production.


By performing machine simulation directly within the programming environment, NX X Manufacturing eliminates the need for separate simulation software. This streamlined workflow ensures all relevant information is available in one place, enhancing productivity, accuracy, and process reliability throughout the manufacturing cycle.

Multi-Channel Synchronization


Synchronize machining operations across multiple channels to ensure seamless coordination between tools and prevent collisions during simultaneous machining. This advanced functionality enables you to control the timing of operations, ensuring that different tools do not begin machining at the same time, thereby enhancing safety, precision, and overall performance.


Each channel represents a complete sequence of machining operations assigned to a specific spindle or tool group. To maintain precise control, you can add synchronization events that define the start and end points of each operation. These events help balance the workflow across all channels, optimizing machine utilization and significantly improving multi-channel performance and productivity.