Hi there,
I'm the CNC Area Host at a large nonprofit makerspace in Chicago called Pumping Station One. We met with the CNC Team last night and were discussing ways to educate new members on how to go from CAD, CAM, and onto fabrication. A number of our members and machine Authorizers (myself included) currently use and teach Fusion 360 as an example of a more accessible fabrication workflow.
Some of our members have Education licenses or Startup licenses, but many are not so lucky as to qualify for either. Nor do they expect to use Fusion commercially. From a fabrication stand point the Personal Use license is very limited without rapid motion or automatic tool changing.
Hence my question, does Autodesk offer any kind of solution for Makerspaces? Either something that a non profit like us could use on In House computers with network licenses tied to the hardware (so that they could only be accessed from In House computers) or a discounted rate for Makerspace members they could get using a special code? Or a discounted rate for bulk licenses that we could purchase and offer to our membership?
If this is a more involved conversation with a sales representative please let me know who to contact. I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask on the forum in case members of other such spaces had similar questions.
