Dassault shafting users who want to upgrade from V5 to V6!
Dassault shafting users who want to upgrade from V5 to V6!
(OP)
Just wondering how anyone else feels about Dassault charging customers to upgrade to Catia V6.
I am a current maintenance paying customer and have just been told that it will cost me thousands of dollars to upgrade/migrate my V5 software to V6. WTF are my maintenance dollars paying for. Where does Dassault think the money came from for them to develop V6.
The company I work for pays maintenance on several CAD and CAM packages and ALL except for Dassault let you upgrade to the latest version of their software for no additional cost.
Then to put salt on the wound I am informed that a new license program is used which does not support anything lower than V5R19. We do work for HondaJet and they still use V5R16. Now I am told that I would need to purchase a new seat of Catia V6 so that I can do work in both V5R16 and V6.
Regards
Ir-rate Catia Customer
I am a current maintenance paying customer and have just been told that it will cost me thousands of dollars to upgrade/migrate my V5 software to V6. WTF are my maintenance dollars paying for. Where does Dassault think the money came from for them to develop V6.
The company I work for pays maintenance on several CAD and CAM packages and ALL except for Dassault let you upgrade to the latest version of their software for no additional cost.
Then to put salt on the wound I am informed that a new license program is used which does not support anything lower than V5R19. We do work for HondaJet and they still use V5R16. Now I am told that I would need to purchase a new seat of Catia V6 so that I can do work in both V5R16 and V6.
Regards
Ir-rate Catia Customer





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Regarding the license software, you are right, that will be the case. We have also had those discussions but got good suggestions, either parallel use (time limited V5 license for free with the V6 license) or a V6 light user license (reduced price).
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As said previously non of my other software packages (that I pay maintenance on) ask for more money when they come out with a NEW (refreshed) version of their software. I have been using CAD/CAM software for over 25 years so I do have some experience on software upgrades and the costs involved.
A long time ago we used a software product called Camax which was later purchased by I-deas which was later purchased by UG.
I never had to pay to convert my Camax seats to I-deas nor did I pay to convert my I-deas seats to UG. And the reason was that I was paying maintenance to make sure I always received the latest software.
My rant is done.
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