How to change from Education Licence to Hobby Licence?

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I am wondering if it is possible to change from a education licence to a hobby licence. My use case does not fall within the education licence anymore and I want to make sure i'm not breaking TOS. I tried seeing how to do it and I could not find a solid answer hence me asking here. In addition will i be able to transfer my designs between the licences as i have some designs I would like to ensure I keep.

Thanks for any help and have a wonderful day!

[jodom4 · Accepted solution]

Hey Nasarocks,

If you're no longer a student, you can wait for your Educational license to lapse at which time you can select a Personal license from the options in the dialog box.

If you're still a student and want to keep using your educational license for student work, you can get a new license with a personal email address- you'll have two different accounts. 

To move non-educational data from one team hub to the other, just right-click on any design and export it as an .f3d file. This can be uploaded to the personal license.

[Anonymous]

Thank You! 

I do believe my educational licence expires soon so I think I will just wait for that.

Have a terrific night!

[xjo26]

Thank you for your answer, I will wait until my education license expires to upgrade to a personal license ! Thank you very much for your information! Sincerely

[Anonymous]

You can create a personal account and log into it.

Download Fusion 360 Client Downloader and run.

message will appear that Fusion 360 is installed and if it runs.

Answer yes and you will have Fusion 360 Educational changed to Personal Use.

[Anonymous]

Thankyou , this worked perfectly, all done in about 30 seconds 

[messerj00ckel]

How or when does the option to change from educational to personal use appear? My educational license has expired and I would like to change to a personal one but I haven't been given the option to in Fusion360 and every time I apply for personal use on the website it also doesn't work even if I wait for some 30 minutes and log out and in again. Right now the dialogue window says that I have a startup license (?) I don't know how that happened. Do I need to make a new Account in order to use the personal license? Thanks for the Help!

[soapex]

Hi, Follow the steps described in my mensage above. 

[roberto.mirto]

I tried the steps you wrote.
I have a Student license that expired yesterday, I already have an account and I used the same one to download the Personal Use version.
At the download I already found the program installed and running, I answered yes, but when the program starts I get "Trial version 30 days", and if I go to subscribers it immediately sends me back to the payment page.
It didn't work why? I had to wait 30 minutes before entering the data to start the program?

[g-andresen]

Hi,

Keep your feet still until the "Expired Subscription - Read Only" notice appears.
I have posted this sequence of images in numerous threads.

günther

[roberto.mirto]

Hi, thanks for the reply, I didn't see an expired license, yesterday my
educational license expired and I didn't use fusion. Today at the opening
of fusion he was already giving me the trial version. I tried to uninstall
Fusion and reinstall the Personal Use version always with the same account
I have used until now. I waited an hour before entering email and password,
nothing, always trial version.

[g-andresen]

Hi,

 After the EDU license is finished, a 30 day trial period (full license) starts automatically, in which you can decide for a purchase variant (or not!).
Only when this phase is finished with the mentioned hint you follow the picture series.

günther

[g-andresen]

Hi,

Do you think you are achieving anything by repeatedly publishing this statement without reflection?

günther

[labomatic]

This doesn't seem to work anymore.

My education license expired an I cannot find such a dialog box.

What is the 2023 procedure to change?

Thanks in advance, Kai

[brianjfuller]

I am having the same issue. Tried all the steps, waited over 24 hours and still seeing Expired Subscription. 

Trying to move my edu to personal/hobbyist. 

[karl_douse]

I am having the same problem. It says "Expired Subscription - Read Only" on the tile bar and I can't find a way to migrate to a personal account.