30 day trial

[noscere1978]

I hope I'm not being too dumb here - I'm trying to download the 30 day trial of Fusion 360. So I clicks to "Download Free Trial", which brings up a dialog box asking whether I am a Business, Student/Teacher or Hobbyist.

I choose Hobbyist from the drop-down, and at the end of the limitations-blurb, it says "Need access to the full features? Download the 30 day free trial" (this is not a link).

Clicking the "Get Started" get started button takes me to another page, with two options:

- "Get Started" under the title "Hobbyist" on the left

- and "Subscribe" for £438/yr or "Free Trial" on the right

Clicking "Free Trial" takes me to the dialog box above, asking whether I am a "Business", "Student/Teacher" or "Hobbyist"

Rinse, repeat, ad finitum... the only way to drop out of this loop is to click the button to access the hobbyist free limited/crippled version. But I want to try out the full features first!

Do I have to choose business in order to get the link for the 30 day trial version? Or am I being too dumb/pedantic and reading this too literally (likely, given my autism!)? Does the hobbyist version also allow full features for 30 days before the limitations kick in?

Thanks for your assistance

[noscere1978 · Accepted solution]

Going to answer my own question. Just bite the bullet, download it and find out! 😄

Seriously though, just in case anyone else has the same issue, I went through both workflows and the end result was the same, it starts a download of "Fusion 360 Client Downloader.exe" (presumably auto-detecting OS from the browser identification, and non Windows users will be directed to a compatible executable image for MacOS or Linux).

Hope this helps...

[noscere1978]

I guess the licence type is attached to your Autodesk login/account. When you go through the various forms and give your personal, educational or business details, your licence is attached to your autodesk account (once approved for the latter two). Upon installation, you have to login - which will grant the software whatever licence you currently have.

And once installed, after you create/join a team and finish/skip the guided tour, a pop-up offers you to trial the full version of the software for 30 days (at least for June anyhow - dunno if this will continue to be offered for brand new accounts once June's reactivation promotion for existing users ends. It should continue for new accounts, IMO, because they will never have had the joy of experiencing the full features before).

[TechBond]

Same thing happened to me. I tried to setup the trial with an existing personal account choosing the business option. Jumped through the hoops pretending I'm a business downloaded the free trial, logged in with the personal account and it reverted to "Personal - Not for Commercial Use" not the trial. It worked through an old work account but I can't access my project library through that.

I had used fusion 360 previously as a hobbyist am I supposed to completely purge all Fusion360 software first then start the whole process again? I don't understand why it is so difficult to change a licence on my account to the professional trial version.