Installation & Licensing

[#1]

Good day,

We have AutoCAD Mechanical subscriptions and are currently running 2012 SP1.

Now, I decided to download and check out 2013 before our users are moved over (hoping some problems we have with 2012 will be solved)... but...

We apparently didn't get a DVD or USB with the 2013 version mailed to us... which I guess now is common practice (I downloaded 2012 from the subscription center as well, but we still got DVDs later).

So I went to the subscription center and to my surprice... we don't have AutoCAD Mechanical 2013 even available to us!

Now, I was informed that Autodesk decided to upgrade (without asking) all ACM subscriptions to the Design Suite Standard as a kind of offer... but I was not expecting that that meant that I can't get what I actually ordered:

We purposely dropped the Design Suites in favour of ACM earlier this year - and aren't too enthousiatic about the upgrade in subscription costs this unwanted offer causes.

Now... where do I get my software now?

[#2]

Your Mechanical 2013 is part of your Product Design Suite Standard.  You can download that and simply just install the Mechanical portion of the suite. 

[#3]

That I get, but I do not feel like reinstalling everything once we got rid of the Product Design Suites (again), something which I needed to do when we made the change to Mechanical earlier this year already. (we had exactly that done)

[#4]

I don't see why it would be necessary to reinstall after you have already installed it from the Suites.

[#5]

Because the license number tends to change etc. Have had too much unclarity about such things already... example would be that if I install ACM 2012 from our cancelled design suites - it won't activate anymore.

[#6]

Correct.  But there's no reason to uninstall it just to reinstall a new one with a new serial.  That would just be making more work for yourself.