Expired subscription. No renewal for hobby/personal use.

[Anonymous]

So, my license expired. and as I feared, there is only the option for me to subscribe and pay money for this software which I barely use once or twice a month, or renew for an educational license.

soooo...... what about us hobbyists? those of us using it for personal use? don't we get to renew? yes, I'm a little sour and its 12:32am as I'm typing this. I'm tired and frustrated.
The option to renew as a hobbyist or for personal use should NOT be THIS hidden (because I cannot find the prompt to renew as a hobbyist anywhere at all, save for a few dead links I found on google which are, well, dead.)

Is there a way for me to renew as a hobbyist?

[jhackney1972]

Probably the reason you cannot find a way to renew a Hobbyist license is because it does not exist anymore.  Three are only 4 types of Fusion 360 license and they are listed below.  Take a look at this site and follow the Personal, Hobby Use path.

[Anonymous]

Hobby/personal, they are the same for me and personal license was still not listed for me as an option, despite having had a personal license prior.

I eventually was able to renew as personal, but that was following obscure forum links BESIDE the autodesk forums. I'm still iffed because fusion just feels like it doesn't want us to renew personal licenses at all with how stupidly hidden it is and with how many fineprints I had to read and loops I had to jump through.

[nigel76FS8]

You might be running in to the "3 year limit", as I did. Having used Fusion as a part of a makerspace (which there used to be a license for, because it's not quite non-commercial, merely non-profit) it had, to my shock, been 3 years, and so Autodesk didn't renew the license for a fourth. Which is a shame. However, I've got used to it and all the multiple flaws, and bugs, and missing things, and so I stumped up the money for a year. I'm writing a book, so I've kept the drawings in F360, rather than moving CAD systems yet again.

Yes, it's about a £ a day, but the co-authors have agreed to stump up some money for the license, so it isn't all on me. And yes, no shock, they want you to pay for the product.

[Anonymous]

thats fair. I personally will never pay for fusion (Edit to clarify: Pay for substcription), and the moment I get a good alternative, i'm taking off that way.

I've only used it for about a year and personal licenses last about a year, so I'm definately going to have this issue again... in a year, lol.

its a shame. fusion is very good and has immense potential, but it's incomprehensibly annoying cloud/internet-cravings and disregard to hobbyists is getting to me in a bad way.

despite what I've said, I'd buy a permanent license of just the 3d designing cad part of fusion, if it was permanently offline, even if I can get the full package  of fusion360 for personal use online for free. just because of how updates and the cloud has screwed me in the past, and just to avoid this whole annoying renewal thing. its not uncommon for me to go over 2 months without ANY internet at all.

I legit hope I don't seem or sound rude. its not my intention. I'm just trying to be glaringly straight mouthed and not obscure in any way.