I already submitted a service ticket on this, but thought I'd post here, as I'm now at a work standstill...
I had been holding off on the upgrade to RAM Connection v9 until the compatibility issues were worked out with RAM elements. I didn't want to run both v8 and v9 of RAM Connection. With the release of RAM Elements v13.2 and RAM Connection v9.1 supposedly the issues were fixed.
This morning I installed 13.2 of Elements and Versions 9 then 9.1 of connection, only to discover that the integrated Connection Module in Elements had disappeared. There was no option in the installer to add the Connection module like the old version 8 installer either. Curious, I opened a RAM Elements model with connections, and I could edit the existing connections, but couldn't add new ones...
Please help let me know if I've missed something along the way, because according to this wiki installing v13.2 should have solved my issues:
http://communities.bentley.com/products/structural/structural_analysis___design/w/structural_analysis_and_design__wiki/12890.ram-connection-v9-0-and-ram-elements.aspx
Thanks.
I solved my own issue by forcing RAM Elements to retrieve a connection license. Seems like a backwards way to integrate the two programs
Answer Verified By: TLiebhold
There are those that want to restrict the Ram Connection usage, for example those users that only have one copy of Ram Connection but two copies of Ram Elements, so we added the opt-in setting for those who want to pull the connection license. For others who come across this post, see this wiki for details:
communities.bentley.com/.../9146.aspx
With the new Trust Licensing, shouldn't this be a non-issue?
Just the opposite, with trust licensing we trust you to use as many Ram Connection licenses as you want, but we also expect you to pay for over-usage at the end of the quarter, so we are providing a means to help users limit that potential over-usage up front.
So, is there any warning each time you're accessing it over your license count? Or is this like driving through states with photo speed traps where you're oblivious to any problems until you get home and have 5 or 6 tickets in the mail? Are we going to have to check with the other engineers in our office each time we want to use Bentley software now to make sure we're not accidentally going over and getting charged for it? As it is now, it's rare that several of us actually HAVE to be in the same program at the same time, so it's not difficult to work around license count limitations, and we'd rather do that than pay extra.
Jason, you'll find several posts in the SELECT server forum about capping license usage to prevent accidental overuse. The short answer is there is nothing within the license management tool now to enforce strict license usage. Some people have created their own internal methods, others use third party software to track things, others perhaps have dedicated machines for some applications.