BDS Premium deploy necessary?

[Jroper]

If I have created a deployment for Building Design Suite Ultimate, would there be any need for creating a Building Design Suite Premium deployment?  The only difference between Premium and Ultimate would be Navisworks Manage, correct?

[DarrenP]

ultimate also has Inventor & quantity takeoff

is this a network license or standalone licenses?

[Jroper]

Network.

[DarrenP]

your supposed to put ultimate on all machines

and the cascading sequence determines the correct license to pull

[Jroper]

I guess my question's purpose was trying understand if there is anything special about the products contained in a Suite deployment vs. any other deploy.

Example:

In my BDS Ultimate deployment there is the 3ds Max product.  But I also have a separate deployment created for just loading 3ds Max.  So a user could get the 3ds Max product installed from the Suite or from the non-Suite deployment.  If I understand cascading correctly, when 3ds Max is launched, the license server will check for the cheapest license with the 3ds Max feature code and will continue on up to more expensive licenses until a license with that feature code is found.  Correct?

[DarrenP · Accepted solution]

yes you are correct