Educational to Commercial License Concern

Anonymous · ‎07-12-2018

I just realized today that I have a model I want to use commercially but I started it with an educational license (since I'm still in college). The model is not done (no rigging/texturing whatsoever still in the modeling phase) and I still have two more models, environments, and animation to do.

Back to my point...

I have an incomplete model that I want to use in a project commercially. If I move the incomplete model over to a commercial license and then finish the rest of my project, am I still able to make a profit off of it?

I want to know this because even though I haven't done much yet, I would rather not have to start over.

mdavis22569 · ‎07-13-2018

I'm thinking you'll need to start it over ... to be compliant with license agreement.

Hate to see you get it over there .... and then find out later. Better to be safe now

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Mark.Lancaster · ‎07-13-2018

@Anonymous

Adding to @mdavis22569 info.. No matter if the model is completed, half-way done, or was just started using a free educational license.. The information created within a free student license can not be used public, shared or in anyway to make a profit. Which means you have to recreate the information from scratch using a commercial license. Many Autodesk applications embed an educational watermark into the data that was created by an educational license. So you don't want to be caught off-guard if someday the stamp appears in your model, drawings, and documentation.

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Autodesk Inventor Certified Professional & not an Autodesk Employee

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Anonymous · ‎07-13-2018

Okay, thank you very much.

natasha.l · ‎07-13-2018

Hello @Anonymous,

Adding to this, I would like to include some official Autodesk information. All content created with an Educational license falls under the terms of use. The suggestion to recreate the content in a commercial version is your best solution.

"Education Usage

For Educational Purposes Only

Software and cloud-based services subject to an Educational license of entitlement may be used solely for purposes directly related to learning, training, research or development. The software and cloud-based services cannot be used for commercial, professional or any other for-profit purposes."

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