NX X Manufacturing Advanced

Reduce your machining time and overall production costs with 3D Adaptive Roughing, a high-performance cutting strategy designed for maximum efficiency. This advanced technique allows for deep cuts while maintaining a consistent tool load, leading to exceptionally high material removal rates. Optimized for cutting hard materials, 3D Adaptive Roughing not only shortens machine cycle times by up to 60% but also significantly extends tool life, ensuring smoother operations, lower tool costs, and enhanced productivity on the shop floor.

NX Advanced Finishing methods enable manufacturers to achieve exceptional surface quality and precision through smooth, optimized toolpaths.

The Helical Finishing technique gradually steps over, eliminating tool marks and ensuring a flawless surface finish — making it ideal for machining high-quality parts with steep walls. Meanwhile, the Spiral Finishing method is perfectly suited for machining shallow, symmetrical regions, maintaining consistent material removal and smooth transitions.

These advanced finishing strategies deliver a uniform stepover and eliminate sharp tool movements, resulting in improved surface finish, enhanced machining accuracy, and higher cutting speeds for greater overall efficiency.

NX offers adaptive high-speed cutting strategies designed to maximize machining efficiency. This advanced roughing technique enables deeper cuts and maintains a consistent tool load, allowing for significantly higher material removal rates.

Perfect for machining hard materials, this innovative approach can reduce machining cycle times by up to 60% while simultaneously extending tool life — delivering faster, more cost-effective, and reliable production results.

Flow Milling is an advanced automated rest milling strategy designed to efficiently remove uncut material left from previous operations. It intelligently generates optimized toolpaths using smaller tools to precisely target remaining material, ensuring complete and accurate machining.

With advanced control options, Flow Milling offers flexibility to apply the most effective cutting method for different regions of a part — including shallow and stepped areas. The arc fitting capability further enhances performance by creating smoother toolpaths, maximizing circular movements, and minimizing short linear transitions.

These optimized toolpaths deliver key benefits such as reduced machining times, improved machine tool performance, and higher surface quality, making Flow Milling an essential method for achieving efficiency and precision in modern manufacturing.

Boost productivity by up to 25% with automated edge detection on specified part geometry. This intelligent process identifies edges and applies the most suitable tools—such as chamfer, ball, or spherical cutters—to perform deburring or chamfering with precision. It also generates efficient helical deburring toolpaths for closed edges, ensuring smoother transitions and superior edge quality. Additionally, the use of 3-axis spline non-cut motions further enhances machining efficiency, minimizing tool movement time and optimizing overall production performance.

Simplify the programming of prismatic parts with an intuitive process that allows you to preview and define the sequence of machining volumes. By simply selecting 3D solid faces to define features, NX eliminates the time-consuming task of manually creating and selecting boundaries required in traditional numerical control (NC) programming.

This interactive and visual programming approach displays calculated cut levels and updates the in-process workpiece (IPW) in real time, enabling the quick creation of efficient, associative toolpaths. Thanks to full CAD/CAM integration, any design modification automatically updates machining operations, helping you respond rapidly to design changes and maintain seamless workflow continuity.

Generate and visualize probing paths to ensure precise measurements and alignment.

Create on-machine probing cycles for both milling and turning operations to enhance accuracy and efficiency.

Output NC code seamlessly using the integrated postprocessor for consistent and reliable results.

Simulate the entire process using the digital twin of the part, probe and machine tool to predict and prevent potential issues.

Detect process variations in real time to adjust machining parameters and maintain optimal performance.

Machining simulation is one of the key advantages of NX CAM, offering fully integrated simulation and verification within the NC programming environment. This allows programmers to check and validate tool paths directly, without relying on separate simulation software or transferring data between systems.

NX provides multiple levels of simulation capabilities, enabling comprehensive validation of the machining process. These include toolpath verification for quick visual checks, material removal simulation to ensure accuracy and detect collisions, and G-code-driven simulation (available as an add-on) for complete validation of the final machine code. Together, these tools help manufacturers achieve higher precision, reduce errors, and ensure safe and efficient machining operations.

Post Hub is a modern, cloud-based postprocessing platform designed to help manufacturers generate production-ready NC programs efficiently. With access to an extensive online library of over 1,200 postprocessors and machine kits, Post Hub supports a wide range of operations including milling, turning, mill-turn, electrical discharge machining (EDM), and additive manufacturing. This ensures seamless compatibility with diverse manufacturing setups and rapid deployment of machining programs.

Additionally, Smart Machine Kit Solutions (SMKS) are available on Post Hub, representing digital twins of CNC machine tools. Each kit includes a highly accurate digital model of the machine, complete with kinematics, postprocessor, and G-code-driven simulation. This allows users to program, simulate, and output fully optimized programs for a variety of CNC machines, including Haas, DMG MORI, Okuma, and Makino. By combining advanced digital simulation with cloud accessibility, Post Hub ensures faster, more reliable, and more efficient manufacturing workflows.

NX CAM delivers industry-leading CAD capabilities for modeling, editing, and assembly, significantly accelerating the CNC programming process. With integrated translators, users can easily import and work with all major data formats, including IGES, DXF, STEP, STL, and JT, ensuring seamless data exchange and collaboration across platforms.

The software’s Synchronous Technology enables direct and intuitive editing of part models, allowing users to quickly prepare designs for NC programming. Tasks such as closing holes, filling gaps, offsetting faces, and resizing features can be done effortlessly. It also allows the creation of as-cast models or design derivatives by simply pushing and pulling existing part faces.

Using powerful assembly tools, NX CAM lets you build a precise digital twin of the complete setup — including the part, fixtures, table, and CNC machine. This helps generate optimized toolpaths that automatically avoid workholding components, ensuring safe and error-free machining operations.

Additionally, NX CAM maintains full associativity to the part model, meaning any design or setup modification automatically updates the related machining operations. This tight integration between CAD and CAM enhances efficiency, accuracy, and responsiveness throughout the entire manufacturing process.