Hobbyist Licensing not renewing with Logout and log back in?

badonj002 · ‎10-20-2022

So I do not understand something? I have a Hobbyist licence that was exspring so i could renew. I open it up and now it says Trial ends in 30 days. I goto the Hobbyist download and it says to log out and log back in, but it still says Trial ends in 30-days?

From what I remember and from the post of others you have to wait until licence expires and then log out and back in after downloading it again. I went here "https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/personal-form" and did just that. Also, only a few hours ago it said 2-days left on hobbyist licence. Not sure what to make of this. The 10 open projects group is gone and I can apparently edit however many I want now in trial mode.

How do I trigger the renew process for hobbyist if logging out and logging back in does not work?

Thanks,

Jason

tonberryhunter · ‎10-20-2022

I just had the same thing happen to me. I was waiting for my Education License to expire to sign up for Hobbyist and now its saying I'm on a trial and isn't letting me switch to a Hobbyist license.

g-andresen · ‎10-21-2022

Hi,

@badonj002 & @tonberryhunter

take a look at this thread

günther

badonj002 · ‎10-21-2022

@g-andresen @tonberryhunter

I thought that is what I was waiting for the Hobbyist 1yr licence to do when it was counting down the past 30-days. with two days left it switched to the trial version? Maybe it is there way of reminding us how the full version feels so we will be enticed to buy it if we want to get rid of the 10-editables limit?

I am a disabled veteran and this hobbyist licence is a lifesaver keeping me busy in my affordable range. I have years of projects and it would suck to be forced to bu it of lose everything. Solidworks did that to me already. I had the Military / Education version and when the licence stopped working they said if you want us to help you, buy it. That is when I switched to Solidworks.

I can live with the 10-editables limit. actually not a problem for me begin as I am the only one using them and more than 10 is normally never an issue for me. The My edibles group is is actually a nice feature for keeping track.

It would be nice if every project wouldn't try to save to random project folders. The one project folder it really likes to default to is my very, very first project that I have not touched for some time. I would love that to be fixed.

I would also like to have the option to open a tab with a browser so i can drag and drop projects to get them into the right folders. May of them are stuffed places and it is hard to find them even with the search feature. It would suck if you purchased it and this happened to you. Same if an update gets pushed at launch and you are in the middle of a project and the update cripples it. I have had projects just break in the timeline after updates. A professional told me they switched to KiCad because the updates were messing their project workflow up and would set them back months on customer projects. He also said they were switching to a different pcb design environment other than Eagle for similar reasons. He said that they should be allowed to finish a project and be allowed when to decide to update. If at that point it breaks stuff, then give to option to roll back to last trusted version.

anyway, thank you, that was the plan to log out and log back in, but this trial version switch was unexpected and there is no information on why it did it at all. I hope in 28-days I can renew my hobbyist licence because I do not have $400 a year. If I did, and I was still only a hobbyist, I would probably pay it, or ask for a hobbiest paid version.

Thanks,

Jason