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
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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 =C2=A31500 (just under =E2=82=AC2200) for SW Premium per seat. I hav= e 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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