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rollinsn1-Visitor
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March 9, 2010
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Licenses...

  • March 9, 2010
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Greetings,

Are you familiar with the way PTC sends two license files - one is
called "standard", the other is not?

One is for borrowing a license and one is for running older versions -
you cannot have both...

Does anyone know which is which and what is considered an "old version"?

I don't need borrowing, but I do need to run WF2. Is WF2 old? (trick
question...) Will WF2 run with either license?

I rec'd both but they came without a description.

Thanks a lot.

-Nate
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dgschaefer21-Topaz II
21-Topaz II
March 9, 2010
I'm pretty sure that WF2 is the oldest version that can use borrowing.
I do know that we use WF2 with the 'borrow' license and it works fine.

I think there' should be a visible 'borrow' line in the license with it
enabled. I'm betting it's the 'standard' one, but open it in a text
editor to be sure.

Doug Schaefer
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ZacharyAlexande1-Visitor
1-Visitor
March 9, 2010
The Standard license file is the one WITHOUT borrowing. I usually suggest
that people only use the Standard one if they are 100% sure that they do not
want users to borrow ever. The borrow.bat can be accessed in either the bin
or bat folder (don't remember off hand) and clicking it will bring up a GUI
that will allow someone to check out a license for up to 5 days (no
returning the license early). Hope this helps

Zack

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Doug Schaefer <<br/>> wrote:

>  I'm pretty sure that WF2 is the oldest version that can use borrowing.  I
> do know that we use WF2 with the 'borrow' license and it works fine.
>
> I think there' should be a visible 'borrow' line in the license with it
> enabled.  I'm betting it's the 'standard' one, but open it in a text editor
> to be sure.
>
> *Doug Schaefer*
>
>
>
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dgschaefer21-Topaz II
21-Topaz II
March 9, 2010
I'm always amazed when folks choose to use one word in a file name to
distinguish between two files and they pick a word that has nothing to
do with the distinction. I mean, isn't borrowing "standard" with Pro|E
now? So why is the non-borrow license marked "standard" if borrowing is
a "standard" feature? Why not call the borrow file "borrow" and leave
the other alone? I guess that would make things too obvious. LOL.

Sorry for the mini rant.

Doug Schaefer
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ZacharyAlexande1-Visitor
1-Visitor
March 9, 2010
I agree, it's frustrating the wording they choose. It would have helped if
they had at least "advanced" or "borrowing" on the title of the license.
Hopefully in later releases this will be made more clear or just making
borrowing a standard.

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Doug Schaefer <<br/>> wrote:

>  I'm always amazed when folks choose to use one word in a file name to
> distinguish between two files and they pick a word that has nothing to do
> with the distinction. I mean, isn't borrowing "standard" with Pro|E now?  So
> why is the non-borrow license marked "standard" if borrowing is a "standard"
> feature?  Why not call the borrow file "borrow" and leave the other alone?
> I guess that would make things too obvious. LOL.
>
> Sorry for the mini rant.
>
> *Doug Schaefer*
>
>
>
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ashu_proe1-Visitor
1-Visitor
March 9, 2010
Nathan,

I have some detailed information about borrowing.

By default PTC sends out 2 license packs, standard.txt and non-standard.txt files.

Standard.txt file is basically downward compatible which means that one can work with any release of Pro/ENGINEER right from Wildfire 5.0 to Pro/ENGINEER 2001.

Non-standard license file is basically a borrow license file. This borrow functionality has been introduced since Wildfire 2.0 and hence if this license is used then one can work only till Wildfire 2.0(WF5.0, WF4.0, WF3.0, WF2.0).

So one has to decide based upon their requirement as to which license they want to use.

In your case, you need to use latest datecode release of Wildfire 2.0 or any datecode release greater that M160 in order to use the borrow functionality as this functionality has been introduced during these datecode releases.

By default you can borrow Wildfire 2.0 license for a max of 5days but by setting an Environment Variable, LM_BORROW_DURATION to 10, one can extend the borrow period to 10days.(including 0).
You can refer to TPI-128654

~Ash..


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