Can student version of AutoCAD 2017 active AutoCAD 2014?

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone,

I has a student license for AutoCAD 2017, can I use it to active AutoCAD 2014?
Because of some special reason, I need to check this out.
Please help if you have any ideal.

Best regards.

[camilo.lemos · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous

You can simply go to the Education Community and get a 2014 AutoCAD activation from there 🙂 Go to this page, choose to download the product and select the 2014 version.

You will not be able to activate 2014 using 2017 activation information.

I hope this helps!

[Mark.Lancaster · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous

I just wanted to add to @camilo.lemos reply.

First..  If AutoCAD 2017 is already installed on this machine, you can't install AutoCAD 2014 unless you uninstall 2017 first.  Next..  Is there a reason why you need 2014?  Files created in AutoCAD 2013 to AutoCAD 2017 can be opened in any of these versions without issues or migration or save as needs.

[Anonymous]

Hi @camilo.lemos

Thanks for your help. Yesterday, I couldn't access Education Community by my account. Today, I try with another account of my friend, and I see options of AutoCAD version. The next thing is fixing my access issue and go ahead. Thank for your consideration.

Best regards.

[Anonymous]

Hi @Mark.Lancaster,

Thank for your note. I am preparing for a student regional competition that using AutoCAD Mechanical and Inventor. For justice between competitor (user interface, feature, etc) so we decide to use version 2014. So, I need to check if we can access version 2014 for student to make sure about our choice.

Best regards.