Legal steps to sell something made on a student version

[Anonymous]

Hi, I am developing a farm implement prototype. I am a student and am not working for a company, I am developing this product independently on a student version of inventor. I have future plans to sell this product once prototyping is finished. I have no use of a licence after developing this one product.

At what point do I need to purchase a licence? Would I be able to purchase a one-month licence once I am ready to sell the product? Would it become illegal to sell the already developed product which was developed with a one-month license after that licence has expired? 

I am trying to sell something I spent a day or two developing without paying thousands of dollars on licencing. 

[Anonymous]

I would re-draw it in FreeCAD : )

[BeKirra]

The best thing you should do is contacting your local Autodesk Reseller.

BTW Most of the forum members here are users.

HTH

[swalton]

Are you aware of the free license options for Fusion 360?  There is an option for small startup companies. Fusion is not Inventor, but but the price is hard to beat.

See: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/fusion-360/learn-explore/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-t...

[mcgyvr]

yep.. ^^

Do it in fusion if you are concerned about getting caught (how would they ever know?) ..

Inventor does not allow you to profit from the student license.. 

[Mark.Lancaster · Accepted solution]

To add to this posting..

The student license is only for training/learning while you attend a qualified educational institution.  Any information you created within this version can not be shared with others (outside of your teacher/class/portfolio), or used in sense where someone can make money or a profit from.  Even if you are not making money from it, someone else could.

In addition any design that you created using this free student license must be redone and saved in a commercial license..

If you meet the requirements of Fusion 360, someone making less than 100,000 grand per year, you can get a free non-commercial license for commercial sense.  For Inventor you would at least need a month subscription for it.   Either product will allow you to "sell" and "own" your design sense it was redone in a commercial license.

Hope that helps.

[Anonymous]

I am an optimistic person, but it is possible that more then 100 000 will swap hands. So, I might as well spend the cash on a licence.

Cool, would you say its not ok to derive or import the files into 360, if that’s possible? Or should I spend the time to remake them?

[swalton]

I'd spend the time to re-make them in Fusion. 

Why?

1. You will have done the commercial work in the commercial package.  Yes, you started the project in the educational version, but you completed it after changing the license.
2. I'm not sure that importing Inventor files in Fusion gives you an useful model tree or drawing file.
3. You need to learn to model in Fusion if you have not used it before.  It will be different than Inventor.
4. Fusion may have some limitations that Inventor does not.  Better to see it now before you commit to a CAD package.  Once you get started with one package, it's painful to switch to another.
5. I don't think you need to spend any money on a license until you actually the $100k revenue limit.