Open-source alternative  ·  CAD / Engineering

Replace Siemens NX with FreeCAD.

Parametric 3D CAD with assembly modeling and drafting.

You'd keep~R1 500 000/year

Current licence  ·  CAD / Engineering

Siemens NX

~R1 500 000/yr

10-user estimate

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FreeCAD

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R1 500 000/yr

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Today's licence price

The tier.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate.

Mach Designer

R1 500 000/yr

R12 500/user/month

Annual subscription

With FreeCAD

Keep R1 500 000/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

Siemens NX grows around 10% per year on average. FreeCAD hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR664kR1329kR1993kR2657kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R2416kR150k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R10.67M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

Siemens NXFreeCAD, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

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Other cad / engineering migrations.

Running one of these alongside? Same migration shop covers both.

Check the project

Migrate Siemens NX.
Keep the money.

Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.