Edit Surface > Enlarge... Licensing issue

[Shadowspawn]

NX5.00.25.
Apparently, there has been a re-classification of some sort with the feature "Edit Surface > Enlarge" so that it now requires the Free-form studio license or something containing the 'nx_freeform-2' license... Does anyone know anything about this? I'd be very appreciative of any information I could get...

John, do you have any insight? I can certainly expound further if needed and will likely need a sidebar conversation with you regarding this.

Regards,
SS
CAD should pay for itself, shouldn't it?

 

[JohnRBaker]

Edit -> Surface -> Enlarge... has ALWAYS required a surface modeling license, but never a 'Shape Studio' license. I went back to NX 1 (released 6 years ago), the version where Enlarge was introduced, and as far as I can tell, nothing has changed. Granted, back then a surface modeling license was called 'free_form_modeling' and now it's called 'nx_freeform_2', but it's all the same and anyone who had a 'free_form_modeling' license should have been grandfathered to an 'nx_freeform_2' license along the way (this should have occurred when upgrading to NX 3).

Have you changed or upgraded any licenses recently, like going from bundles to floating licenses, or vise versa?


John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA

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[Shadowspawn]

John,
Yes... we've gone from floating licenses to bundles and worked with UGS to mapover and migrate. The problem wasn't noticed until very recently when a machining guy couldn't get a license which led to me unpicking the NX13420N Mach 4 Advanced Machining bundle (since I don't do CAM). This still left me with the NX12100N Mach 2 Product Design bundle, but it doesn't include the 'nx_freeform-2' component that's required.

I checked our pervious versions of NX3/NX4 and the enlarge surface feature was available to the designers. As it stands now, this gem isn't available at all to us unless the designers tie-up a machining bundle. I consider the Enlarge Surface feature a pretty basic functionality that shouldn't require some kind of an advanced freeform modeling license or, apparently, a Mach 3 Machining license bundle.

Am I missing something?

Regards,
SS
CAD should pay for itself, shouldn't it?