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NX8 vs SW

NX8 vs SW

NX8 vs SW

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Why use NX8 than SW & other software?

RE: NX8 vs SW

sw is much more user friendly and faster for smaller (to medium size) projects.
solid edge also exists for a reason. one of them is also price compared to nx.

RE: NX8 vs SW

From my experience, SW is handier drafting in the Manufacturing environement mainly because of their configurations tools, 3D associative sketching , assembly mates , system attributes and how they handle english and metric units.

In my opinion, NX is a bit better in top down modeling. Their wavelinking works a little better than the SW version, but they might have improved it since I last used it. Also NX is a PLM system which means that you can directly link the models to CNC programing and CMM inspection. There are aftermarket programs out there for CNC programming that work inside solidworks that work ok. As far as CMM inspection I don't think anyone uses it because you still need PCDMIS or another DMIS interface to run the CMM.

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