I'm trying to purchase a perpetual license of AutoCAD LT 2016 (to match all our other workstations) for a new CAD employee, and I've found it on a few websites but they do not appear to be the usual (or even authorized) sellers.
If I purchase AutoCAD LT 2016 perpetual license (on disk with license key), will I be able to install and activate it even though the perpetual license hasn't been sold since 1/31/2016? I don't want to buy it only to find out that AutoDesk is no longer allowing activations of perpetual license for AutoCAD LT 2016.
I have no interest in a maintenance subscription so that is not a factor.
I'm just looking for an official answer before I take the plunge and buy AutoCAD LT 2016 w/perpetual license and wast our money if we can't activate it.
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Autodesk has stopped selling perpetual licenses of Autocad LT on Jan 31, 2016
if you found a copy it is most likely an illegal copy
Hi @kurt,
Welcome to the community!
Excellent questions! So although they may have perpetual licenses, there actually is a bit of a difference from trying to purchase those now instead of from us. It's that this will be a violation of your license agreement, as these cannot be resold.
As for your second question. If you were to buy a subscription you are entitled to the three most current versions of the software, so yes, you could stay with AutoCAD LT 2016 to match all of your other licenses via a subscription.
>>>...Our CAD Manager prefers to upgrade every 5-6 years ...<<<
Since you are giving Autodesk money every year with an annual subscription, it's up to you all to decide to either waste that money by not getting new software or upgrade every year or every couple of years. Are you sure your corporate bean-counters will think this is a good idea?
>>>...every 3 we have budgeted in our software budget....<<<
You pay for annual subscriptions now: you can buy three years ahead of time if you want.
Once LT2016 is no longer on the list of "older' versions you can use in your Accounts log-in, that does indeed mean you have to give up LT2016.
In your case, that would be when LT2019 comes out OR when Autodesk decides to give up the idea of letting you access older versions (they can do that), whichever comes first.
Thanks for the link: read this about them http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-2013-2014-2015-2016-2017/is-this-website-legal/td-p/5984892
Many thanks Dean for your help!
The main reason I'm trying to get as much information as possible is our other designers are all on AutoCAD LT 2016 with perpetual licenses so our CAD Manager wants the new designer on the same system. She's concerned about compatibility down the line if we have one designer on a newer version of AutoCAD LT and herself and the other 4 designers are still on AutoCAD LT 2016.
Budget-wise it makes no difference to me as the overall budget won't change, what we actually use will change. I'm sure our CEO will be upset as I'm guessing he's been happy with the CAD department's software expenditures being about half what I have on the budget every year.
Thanks again for all your help!!
I think it's important to note here, if you have an active subscription with say 2016 enabled and you always keep it active, even in 2020 you will have access to the 2016 version. If you have entitlements you keep them, we don't drop them off your access if you are keep auto-renewing the subscription.
The new subscriptions only get the 3 most current.