NO info for Factory Design Suite Utilities we/clients use in new 2017 Collection

[Anonymous]

We (and some LARGE clients) are heavy users of Factory Design Suite Premium 2015, and under maintenance with Perpetual Licenses.

After searching the Collection announcements and associated Autodesk websites, we can find NO/ZERO info about what is to become of the critical Factory Design Utilities/tabs/tools in AutoCAD Inventor and Architecture when the Collections take over in July 2017.

What is going to be the status of these tools?

How will they be available to current users?

This is a major issue for our entire business, and if these tools go away, we will have to look to other applications, as will our clients.

Gary S.

[Mark.Lancaster · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous

Welcome to the community and hopefully my (or someone else) reply will be beneficially to you.

Since you’re new to the community I just wanted to inform you this is a worldwide (public) user forum where users are assisting others. For any future postings you may do, please do not include any personal information (such as your serial #) in anything that you share (including screen shots & attachments) with us.

If you are active with your maintenance subscription of your perpetual license (or with your term) for your factory design suite you will be able to maintain it going forward and you will not lose anything.  The normal Factory design suite has already been released for 2017 and you have the rights to it if you have an active maintenance subscription.  Up to Aug 1 you can still purchase a perpetual license (with maintenance subscription) or term license of factory design suite.

After Aug 1 if you need to purchase new factory software you will either purchase the product design collection or individual products.  Not sure what information you're looking at but the Product design Collection clearly shows factory design utility is included.