Student parts to Commercial parts

[sam__gleeson]

I have quite a few parts created when using the education version of Inventor.Now i am using Commercial version of Inventor.If i save the education created files in the commercial version does it remove any association with the education files?

Best Regards

Sam

[raveruben]

sam,
i had the same problem a year ago, but never found an answer.
make sure you dont use a edu part in a assembly made in commercial, because one part can ''infect'' your whole assambly.
maybe by this time there is a solution for this problem, goodluck!

[JDMather · Accepted solution]

Recreate all work from scratch with commercial license.

[Paul-Mason]

There is, or there used to be, a small application available on request from Autodesk to remove the student stamp from files. Don't know if this is still available or not.

[dgorsman]

I believe the intent of that tool is to correct problems when EDU content is used by mistake e.g. downloading parts from a sharing site.  It was never intended to convert content that was deliberately created with the EDU versions.

[TravisNave]

That is correct.  Using educational work in a commercial product explicitly violates the license agreement. 

[trenthoskings]

Where are Edu/Student version highlighted.I see Student Version on the Assembly heading.Where do parts display whether it is a commercial or Student version part?

Trent

[JDMather]

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@trenthoskings wrote:

....Where do parts display whether it is a commercial or Student version part?

Trent

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Go to Help>About Inventor and check the license type.

Autodesk removed the explicit edu banner in later releases, but the EULA is still the EULA.

I wonder if there is some sort of internal marker on student license created files that will eventually make itself known.

[trenthoskings]

Thanks

I have seen parts which have name of part + STUDENT VERSION up the top and also parts where there is just the part name without STUDENT VERSION.Is this the difference between a EDU part and a commercial part.

So if you save a commercial part to a Student version of Inventor will it then stamp that part as part name + STUDENT VERSION up the top?

Also i gather if you have a part made by STUDENT VERSION and then save on a commercial licence will it remove the stamp from the part STUDENT VERSION

Regards

Trent

[JDMather]

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Also i gather if you have a part made by STUDENT VERSION and then save on a commercial licence will it remove the stamp from the part STUDENT VERSION

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The image I attached was not of an open file, only an open seat of Inventor student license.

Saving student license work in commercial license has never removed the student tag.  Once tagged it is forever tagged (unless Autodesk helps remove or some other technique used). According to the EULA any attempt to remove is a violation of the EULA.

But now - AFAIK there is no explicit warning or banner that the content was created with edu license.

Only the EULA the student agrees to and the start of the program gives any indication that it is student license.

The interesting question is, "With the removal of this explicit warning, what happens to these edu files 5 yrs down the road?"

[TravisNave]

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The interesting question is, "With the removal of this explicit warning, what happens to these edu files 5 yrs down the road?"

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Exactly. I suspect they will turn it on after the upcoming no-upgrades experiment happens and they catch a bunch of people's hands in the cookie jar. 

[trenthoskings]

A good point about the 5 years

Also if creating good parts when learning on Student version and then go to the commercial version only to have to re-model all those parts could take a long time if you still want to use these parts.

So i am assuming that if the part does not have the STUDENT VERSION in the part name at the top then it would be a commercial version part

Regards

Trent

[JDMather]

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@trenthoskings wrote:

So i am assuming that if the part does not have the STUDENT VERSION in the part name at the top then it would be a commercial version part.

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No, no, no.

You have missed my statement several times.  There is no longer any explicit warning or banner letting you know if it is student or commercial - only the student knows for sure.  (or Autodesk, the students are usually clueless about the entire issue, I doubt 5 students in the history of Autodesk have actually read the EULA)

Recreating the work is a cheap price to pay for free learning use of professional (expensive) software.

[sam__gleeson]

Does anyone know what would happen to EDU files after 5 years?

Sam