That’s if you are comparing IV to SWX Premium. IV no longer offers packages comparable to SWX Standard and Pro. We have mostly Standard licenses with a few Pro and 1 Premium.
Inventor becomes more expensive:
For “SWX Standard”, after 5 years
For “SWX Pro”, after 6 years
For “SWX Prem”, after forever (Their annual cost is almost the same so it’s 40 years)
But the real factor in a larger installation is the fact that IV is named user license vs SolidWorks which has floating concurrent licensing. Our 50 SolidWorks licenses would jump to 150 IV licenses. Now IV is way more expensive, like 3x the annual cost of Swx Premium.
Sorry man, BiDM in Sold Edge is no where, I repeat, no where near PDM Pro. It is very basic, more so than even PDM standard. You can’t create data cards, all data must be stored in custom properties and then indexed by the server. It has basic states, you can create multiple workflows. Its simple and look nice for a very small operation but it’s missing a huge amount of what PDM Pro is capable of.
The Teamcenter stuff looks interesting but how hard it is to setup? After seeing Windchill, I would have concerns that TC is similar and you would need to be a web developer to configure it. Seems very hard to find information online about it.
It’s true that change for the sake of change is a bad idea, but you also have to weigh your long term options. The SWX desktop train is headed for a cliff by all appearances. Sooo…do you jump now or jump later?
Personally, I’d rather step off on a well-planned schedule in the near future and avoid the death throes and eventual rigor mortis because of the lack of actual maintenance and bug fixes. Maybe we’re already there- I sure don’t see the value in paying ~$2K per seat per year for the privilege of Beta testing.
I remember you mentioning that before. Did Adesk actually tell you this? I’m just curious because that seems like a really bad business model. I’ve read several things about “Monitoring usage and adjusting number of seats”, which you couldn’t do if you can only have one seat one person unless you just take away access from someone. Also this…
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Not sure, maybe its changed since we were told. We only had a few IV licenses but we were offered a 2 for 1 deal where we would get double the licenses for the same cost as our current number of users needed.
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I read that the last time we talked about this. At very least license usage seems very murky. They are definitely retiring the old “Floating” type license but I’m not sure that that means there are no options available to allow multiple people to use the same license.
Edit to add: and on a bigger note, are people just completely losing the ability to communicate? SW with their 3DE/SwYm stuff is exasperatingly confusing. Adesk is certainly not making it clear here. I can’t tell you how many manuals, guides etc that I have read over the last few years that I’m left thinking “Was that even in English” after I read it.
And no it’s not me. I can pick up a manual, guide, instructions etc from 20 years ago and read it very clearly…in most cases.
I was looking at SE in 2019, and one of the things that stopped that investigation early was the lack of an equivalent to the solidworks “internet license.” I work from home at least 1 day a week, so a licensing option that allows me to access from 2 different locations is just about a must.
Yeah, its called, have the administrator login to the website and change the user to another user that needs the software. I have to do this with Matlab, stinks.
I think it’s the flood of outsourcing to countries where English is a second language. I imagine if I wrote instructions in some other language I don’t speak daily, its would be less than correct.
Yeah, when I started using Catia V4 after using AutoCAD, I was like, where are the Move and Copy commands? Oh, select “Transfor” then “Translate”.
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Then Replace (to move) or Duplicate (to copy)
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This in 97…
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Looked so much better than…this
