They ended up agreeing on purchasing one seat + ongoing mantenance (a pretty fair resoloution). Several months later, they get a letter from Siemens legal department saying they owe them about $40 K (two seats of NX + a year of maintenance for each) to avoid legal action. I have an acquaintance with a small company, one of the employees bought/downloaded a pirated version of NX off the internet somewhere. Aside from the ethical aspect of using pirated (stolen) software, better be careful about the legal aspects of using it. Haven't managed to get it running yet tho. Have a unigraphics 16 somewhere, same price. I subsequently have fallen so enamored with NX CAD that I'll never go back to SolidWorks, even if they brought the prices way down. Given that SolidWorks wanted $4500 just to bring my 2017 seat up to maintenance (after I lapsed), I went with NX. Judging from my quotes from early this year, I basically paid $2k more for my NX CAD/CAM seat than what those guys wanted for standalone, comparable CAM. NX becomes a much better deal when you price out SolidWorks + a high-end CAM package like MasterCAM or Esprit. I am sure it always will be, and it is absolutely worth the price premium of a few $k (IMHO, and I was a SolidWorks user for 14 years). No cam nothing too fancy.The NX CAD side is more expensive than SolidWorks if you buy it as a standalone seat. The two places that quoted me were both above 10k.
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Can you please tell me where you are able to pay so little.
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I read a few times here that people are able to get a seat of nx for not much more than solidworks costs or at least under 10k.