Welcome back to our What’s New in NX™ software series! We tailor this series around the fundamental goal of streamlining our users’ workflows, all while delivering powerful and flexible tools to improve your time to market. Within the June 2025 release of Designcenter NX, we brought you a range of new features specifically designed to elevate your entire design process. One of the enhancements that we’d like to talk about to do is around multi-user collaboration.
We understand how valuable it is to have strong communication within your team, regardless of where they’re based around the world. This is why with huge advancements in Designcenter Live Share and Immersive Collaborator, we’re now bringing users together to discuss key design changes, all while in the same environment.
Let’s find out more!
Designcenter Live Share
Designcenter Live Share enables real-time collaborative authoring while preserving industry proven security and business logic.
Simultaneous Engineering in Designcenter X
With our latest update, multiple users can now work simultaneously on the same product design. Thanks to concurrent authoring and editing capabilities – even at the same assembly, or individual part level – your teams can collaborate more closely than ever, down to the smallest detail. This synchornization feature ensures that changes are reflected instantly across all user sessions, streamlining your company’s workflow and taking collaboration to the next level.
Please note that this update works with data managed in Teamcenter and ensures data model consistency.
Designcenter X NX user presence and awareness
This update is a game-changer for our users worldwide. No matter where your colleagues are located, you’ll experience real-time presence and communication across the Designcenter X ecosystem all while providing a visual indicator of those working “near” you. With this, you’re now able to see a multiple-user avatar display to see where everyone else is within the design review. Alongside this, these avatars are displayed with their initials to make their identity clear.
Users will now receive activity-based communication, triggered by notifications from users. Within Live Share, you will now be notified when users save or check in/out data that you are following in the Designcenter X session.
Teams chat
We understand the need and importance to have live dialogue with your team, while evaluating a design. This update provides direct communication with other users to enable ad-hoc NX X collaboration. Users within the review now have contact cards available that provide the ability to start a chat in Teams. This contact card lists high level details like the users’ name and email, but also their reason for inclusion in the design process. By creating this simple tool for our users, you can now resolve issues quickly and easily using improved collaborative workflows in Designcenter X.
Immersive collaborator
Similarly, we have also made some great usability improvements with Immersive Collaborator. Designcenter X now displays a range of notifications to the user to let them know what changes are happening within their session. For example, you will now be notified if:
- A new participant joins the Immersive meeting
- A participant leaves the Immersive meeting
- The meeting host closes the Immersive meeting
Immersive navigation with game pads
The Designcenter NX team always strives for ways to make your workflow and experience smoother and easier. This is why in this release of Designcenter NX, we now offer support for Gamepad controllers (e.g. PS4/PS5/Xbox Series 2). This means you can explore and navigate your virtual environment in VR and desktop, with through these controllers. This feature is convenient for both designers and non-designers as it’s a very well known and understood controller to comfortably explore.
Please note that you’re able to connect the gamepads to your PC via wired cable or Bluetooth.
Conclusion
And that’s the end of our overview of What’s New in Multi-user collaboration. We’ll be releasing more in-depth dives around this topic through our Tips and Tricks series, so be sure to bookmark the NX Design blog if you want to learn more!
