Question regarding the student version of Maya and Educational Version

Question regarding the student version of Maya and Educational Version

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Question regarding the student version of Maya and Educational Version

Anonymous
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Hey everyone I'm new to the community and a student currently proceeding a degree in animation. Recently I was working on a project for class but had to take it home to finish cause I have the 3 year student version. To get to the point, my question is can I bring home the files or my projects rather from college and work on it at home to save it and use it at college again?

 

The reason I ask is because when I saved my file just recently it said that it would be violating my terms if I use or open the file at an educational institute or use commercially. The thing that got me was the educational part so I'm just curious. Will I be able to work on my projects at home and bring them back to college to open them there or must I do everything at my college? Thanks for any replys, just want to be safe and this is just for my animation class, no commercial purposes intended.

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Alessandra.G
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Hi @Anonymous and welcome to the Autodesk Community!

 

We invite you to read the terms and conditions for education licenses here

 

Good luck with your projects!

 



Alessandra G

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This is just my own opinion (and experience) but I think that as long as your school has an educational license and the version you use at home is an educational/student license, there shouldn't be any problem.  When I had gone back to college myself (which is where I first developed an interest in Maya), they used the same version I used here at home...or more proper, I downloaded the same student version here at home that they used at my school.

 

I could be wrong here...I'm no lawyer or anything, but...I think the main issue regarding student/educational versions, regardless of "where" you specifically use them, is that you simply don't use them for ANY kind of commercial/for profit use.  As long as you're using student versions for student work, I don't think it really maters if you use it at a kiosk at your college or on your own laptop sitting on the crapper (LOL).  If you have concerns, I would absolutely read thru those Terms of Use, as recommended previously, but if it's simply a matter of taking your school work/projects home to work on them - i.e. "homework", then I wouldn't think there should be a problem.

 

Now one quick addendum I will add...make sure you pay attention to "version" or, at the very least, check for an option called "ignore version".  If you're NOT running the same version at home as you are at school (say, Maya 2013 vs 2015), you MAY have some issues opening a project in an older version of Maya that was saved in a newer version (just as with A LOT of software).  I do seem to remember having this problem myself after the college I attend had upgraded their version, but I was still running an older version...I don't remember the specifics, but I do remember having to check that "ignore version" in order to get the files I created/worked on at school to open on my system here at home.

 

Alrighty...hope that helps!

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Thanks for the reply both of you, I was able to call a representative at autodesk to confirm it's okay and they said it was okay. It wouldn't make sense if I could take my class work home but not use it. Unless it was the commercial version which I know its not, student, education, or anything that falls into learning seems connected anyways. I also asked my professor and he also said it was fine and the only thing is the student dialog warning will only appear when the file is opened. Anyways thanks all for the help.

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