Maintenance

The old chestnut of maintenance has reared its head again. Looking
back at our requirements over the past 12 months and how many times we
have used support I cannot justify the cost of having VAR (still makes
me laugh) maintenance.
Has anyone gone their own way and just paid for upgrades once a year?
If so how and was it good for you?

 

Man if you figure out a way to do that it would be golden to me and
many many other users I know. My resellers support sucks at best. I am
totally wasting my money with them. I would be happy to just pay for
upgrades and use my network for help.

Ben

 

Here (France), maintenance is 1500 Eu/yr, and upgrade 1195Eu. You still have
to pay the "not faithfull penalty" of 500 Eu if you missed one year (or
more).

 

We pay £1500 (just under €2200) for SW Premium per seat. I have no
idea how we would go about going "upgrade only".

 

We quit mainanance one and a half year ago. So i am stuck with sw 2006 for
now.
No regrets till know.
I used the 1500 euro i saved for rhino 4 with maxwell render ( 1395 dollar /
euro see maxwellrender.com).
I had problems with importing files into solidworks from another client of
ours (can not open file).
So i tried with rhino 4 .....and it worked . I could do a visual check on
the assembly.
I tried to repair the file so i could read it in sw , but that was harder
than i thougt.

I quit maintance before and when we updated sw 2004 we did have to pay
reinstalation fee.
but if you can wait 3 years you can buy a complete new installation for that
price.

At the moment i am also looking at VX , because this package has a cam
module intergrated .
The few things i have done in VX where very impresive .
So maybe we will switch to that or use it next to solidworks.

Good luck with whatever you decide.

Bram


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