How to keep using a personal license that I bought and still would like keep using at home?
@JamesMaeding wrote:
You mean like Bricscad? Its about $1300 for a perpetual, and yearly maintenance of about $300 I think.
They offer sub style seats too. Its about the cost of Acad LT but you get the full product, crazy.
I am the in-house developer for my company and all my tools work on both.
It does lisp and .net pretty much perfectly.
Both are brilliant platforms that edit dwgs which are fully compatible with each other.
You do have to spend time getting BCAD settings like you had in acad. Their options dialog is a treeview rather than tabs but its all there.
Google is your friend. Bricscad is one variant of many.
I suspect that their existence/capability was the genesis of Autolisp being added to LT for 2024.
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@JamesMaeding wrote:
Good point, there are indeed other dwg editors and with various advantages I am guessing.
I think most of the major 3rd parties like Carlson do work on Bricscad, but I think the intellicad set is cheaper so they push that more. Its been a while since I checked on them.
I'd be curious to hear why you would not go bricscad if looking for acad alternative.
Bricsys do not sponsor me, all this is my own ramblings.
Speaking to all potential readers, not just you, James.
From Wikipedia: IntelliCAD is a CAD editor and development platform with an Application Programming Interface API published by the IntelliCAD Technology Consortium (ITC) through shared development.
About 20 ITC member companies have "CADD" products that utilize the IntelliCAD engine. These programs/apps/add-ons are often industry pacific. This is not unlike the AutoCAD verticals that, until recently, were sold/marketed/leased separately. Bricsys and Carlson are both members of ITC and have IntelliCAD-based products.
I suggest that a potential customer comparison shop and then choose what they think is the optimal fit and best value. I believe that Bricsys has several products at various prices. They seem to put a lot of effort into marketing. I certainly would not eliminate them from consideration, but I do not know if they are the best choice in all cases.
Having used AutoCAD products for decades, I have realized that "Best in Class" and "Less sucky than the competition" are semantically equivalent.
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In reply to post 8:
Your points are all valid.
The value they add may not be great for those just looking for basic AutoCAD compatibility and capabilities.
There is a lot in AutoCAD that is not fully utilized by many users. Autodesk recognizes this with AutoCAD LT.
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If you have a paid-for personal license, you should be able to use it at home. You are probably limited to one computer and possibly one laptop if not used simultaneously.
What version of the software are you entitled to? Make sure that you have the files and updated files available. Not all versions are compatible with Windows 11. If you need a new computer and AutoCAD Software installed, you may be unable to activate it. A backup install on a backup computer would be prudent.
I do not have all the answers, but the forums have numerous discussions. (Installation?)
Good Luck.
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