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Owning of a Autodesk Licence in 2016

Peac3
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Owning of a Autodesk Licence in 2016

Peac3
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I have a small question today, maybe an easy one. I was searching for the prices of Autodesk products on Google, and it seems it's not possible to own of a licence for a specific software. The only way to go seems to be a lease for a specific software, for a certain amount of years. Then after who knows what happen, I guess the software stops operating automaticaly. Is it possible to buy a licence to be proprietary of the software once and for all, that my only question. Let's say one wants to manage their buildings using Revit, usualy they want to do that forever. Do these people have to pay for the software each month forever? Thanks.
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Anonymous
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Yep that's pretty much how it works except that you pay by the year and it doesn't have to be "forever" you can quit anytime you want but you will never own the program
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paullimapa
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Yes, Autodesk stopped selling perpetual licenses on the individual products.  You can still buy a license on the Suites likes Building Design Premium Suite:

http://www.autodesk.com/store/building-design-suite-premium

 

 

 

 

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JDMather
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@Peac3 wrote:
 Do these people have to pay for the software each month forever? Thanks.

You should have asked this question several months ago before the move from perpetual license to subcription license.
I am surprised that your VAR did not fill you in on the details.

There are free Viewers that do not require the editing software if all you need to do is view the work.


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Peac3
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ahh god I wrote a reply and there was an error, sh** the message isn't there. Ill have to do this again later.
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pendean
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Discussion Forum dedicated to the topic is here, worth exploring to answer some of your questions http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/perpetual-license-changes/bd-p/2015

AutoCAD is now a pay-to-play software solution.
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Peac3
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Thanks for the link. But this is so wrong.. I hope to see a different world some day.. But maybe It's starting to happen with Barack Obama visiting Cuba and Donald Trump being front runner for the GOP. A lot of action in the United States these days. Autodesk should do like Tesla and give the 2D Autocad code an open source status, make it open source. That would be great, to celebrate humanity with dignity. (: Yeah AutoCAD 2D opensource (:
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paullimapa
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At least Autodesk still offers perpetual licenses on the Suites.  Adobe doesn't offer this at all.  They've gone the subscription route on all their products for over 3 yrs now.  The next shoe to drop may be Microsoft on their Office products.

 

 

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Peac3
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Thanks for the links with information i will read that later.. I don't have a choice. I think we are going for the wall, the good old days of computers are over. Windows 10 stores passwords on Microsoft server, it's insane and nobody seems to care at all, we can't all be stupid. Next, all our work will be stored on clouds while China and others are breaking through on almost all servers in the US... stealing knowledge. -> i want to be happy with that but it's not happening right now, I resist change a little bit.
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pendean
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There are Open Source mature CAD programs out there that do nicely: help yourself to a few, the two I know of handle DWG files just fine both ways.

If you just crave free and 2013-ish, look into Draftsight: the pro version costs money but it's still a perpetual license since they have no significant customer base yet unlike their other excellent software.
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Peac3
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Pendean thanks for the suggestions, i will look forward to find a good Open source alternative in 2D, hopefully that is has powerfull has Autocad. Autocad 2013 is quite stable in 2D right now, I have to say it's quite good and effective, i think it's going to be hard for me and i will miss the osnap features, the dimensions configurations, the Mtext manager, the layers options. .. ill see
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dgorsman
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Plenty of places out there to discuss politics, precious few to discuss AutoCAD and AutoDesk products.  Please, when you come here leave it at the door.

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Peac3
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dgorsman yeah, your right. Too much Autodesk discussion is bad for me too has a matter of fact, I am not an Autodesk fan and I am not going to stick around for a long time, dgorsman. (Still i have to get answers for AutoCad from time to time, we pay thousands for multiple licences. Thanks for your answers, the others. I looked at the open source 2D alternatives yesterday at home, will have to download some of them and experiment a little bit.
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jggerth
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Bear in mind that there are other options than Acad or Open Source.   Bricsys, Graebert, and the intellicads are DWG compatible, effective, and are still purchaseable as non-cloud licenses.  Multiple others out there as well that may use non-DWG native foirmats but can interoperate with DWG files.

 

Interoperability may not be perfect, but  neither is Autodesk interoperability between their own packages (Revit & C3D for one example)

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