PDMLink light user/heavy user

[ybhide]

I will like to know what the difference beatween Heavy user and Light
user license in PDMLink. It's time for maintenance renewal and Heavy
seems to cost almost double the Light. So far we haven't seen any
significant access issues with engineers using light license. I wonder
if heavy license is intended for Admin/Development use? Thanks in
advance for your input.

Regards,
Yugendra
PDMLink 8.0 M040
Pro/E WF3 M110


Yugendra Bhide
Design Engineer
Norse Dairy Systems
Columbus, Oh
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[avillanueva]

I believe they are defined in legalese in the license agreement. There
should be a copy on PTC.com. I believe the PTC will have a set ratio of
how many heavy to light licenses you can have. There is no difference
technically because the licenses are just how you are charged. There is
no FlexLm involved nor is there built in functionality limiters in place
to stop light users from doing heavy user things. For Wildfire or CAD
users, these are typically all heavy users, regardless of any ratio.

[patrick.chin]

PTC always puts a 3:1 ratio for light to heavy respectively. I don't
believe there is a difference in functionality. It is more about cost
and usage.

[tweathe]

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[ptc-571495]

Yugendra,

Heavy/Light user licenses is only for payment purposes. There are no
functionality differences between the two. In fact, the technology doesn't
differentiate. A user is a user to the application.
However, for legal purposes, if you want to remain in compliance with your
licensing agreement, then you would own the appropriate number of heavy and
light users.

Heavy users are defined as users within the Engineering, Product/Project
Management, and Admin/Developer departments.
Light users would be everyone else.
Some examples:
Heavy Users: Manufacturing Engineers, Purchasing Engineer, System Admin, CAD
Admin, Project Manager, Product Manager
Light Users: Manufacturing (Shop Floor worker), Purchasing Agent, Document
Control, CFO


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[avolkanovska]

Hi,

In this direction how do you do role mapping in your organization? IS that a challenge for anyone?

Thanks

Aleksandra

[ptc-780446]

A questions I have always wondered about is student interns and other short term people. We are located in Athens Ohio and deal with Ohio University students. Our LDAP server will have over 200 users but we never use more than about 60 at a time. We may have 4 students per year using one license. The students only work for 3 months. There is no way a company is going to purchased named users for 3 months then purchase another 3 months later. Do to the nature of our businuss (Medical) it is required by the FDA each user accomplishing task is tracked, so we can not create generic accounts like intern1.

[ptc-571495]

William,
You should purchase a number of External Capacity licenses. This is a third
licensing option. It is for non-company employees (e.g. your interns) and
you purchase the number of licenses equivalent to your expected monthly
number of users. With the external license your users can change
month-to-month.

H. Lewis Kennebrew, II
Vice-President, Operations
ProductSpace Solutions, Inc.
"Your Products to the Nth Power"

2021 Midwest Road, Suite 200
Oak Brook, IL 60523
630-495-2999x8101

[tweathe]

William,

External user licenses will cover you interns and these licenses can change from one user to another.

Thanks,
Timothy J. Weatherford

TWeatherford, Inc.

3148 Beach Blvd

Cicero, IN 46034

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