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> On Jan 23, 2017, at 8:28 PM, Jim Pruitt <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mike, you are correct about Autodesk products being free to > students/faculty/and staff with proof of status. A college/university > email would do that. > > I retired from a medium size state university here in late spring. My job > there was to purchase, set up, install/administer software and hardware, > and maintain some application servers including ones for Autodesk, > Solidworks, Matlab, and Oracle Primavera. I had 2 Autocad labs consisting > of about 25 stations each. We used Autodesk products because they were > free to universities as long as it was in a teaching capacity. For that > reason facilities management could not use the educational version. > Autodesk and the cad labs took up over 75% of my time so 2 labs kept me > busy and I had 10 other pc labs to maintain on campus. I assume that > because the product was free to us we were on the bottom of the food chain > as I ran into a bug with their product that cause our students to have to > sit for 20 minutes before the license server would issue them a license. Even if you pay >$100K in license fees a year, don’t count on fast solutions for things like license server nonsense (or any other bug). We are not in any way an Autodesk customer at work so that’s not a direct knock on them. It’s more a knock on the industry as a whole. With the payments we *do* get a solution of some sort eventually. Two weeks is a more likely time period than “later today” for most of them. That *is* better than the “maybe never” time frame for unpaid support. It still is not what you need ….. Bob > Keep in mind that classes only lasted 50 minutes! Even though I hired a > third party VAR (value added reseller) for cad tech support. Education was > all on their own so even my VAR could not help me resolve the problem. > They did manage to give me one name at Autodesk that I could contact and > push them from inside. If it had not been for that I feel they never would > have taken the problem seriously. Even at that it took 2 months to get it > figured out. They did not fix the problem til the following year when a > new version was released. Prior to the product being offered free I could > contact Autodesk and get support when needed. > > In short, Autodesk products are free to students and staff/faculty when > used for educational purposes. I had to resort to forums and other avenues > to get tech support. > > Good luck. > > Jim Pruitt > > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 4:56 PM, Mike Suhar <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Many companies are trying to jump on the subscription band wagon. It is a >> way to keep a steady flow of income. Unfortunately, hobbyists are left >> out in the cold. I have version 7.5 with the hobbyist license. I just >> tried to get 7.7 but the download pulls in version 8.0. I did not install >> it. >> >> If you are not using the software on a regular basis I assume you could >> go with the monthly subscription for a month then drop it. Pick up again >> a few months later when you start another project and need more than the >> freeware capabilities. >> >> Looks like they have a student version but the way I read it you have to >> actually be a student enrolled in an education institution. I assume they >> require some form of proof. >> >> Mike >> W8RKO >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: time-nuts [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John >> Ackermann N8UR >> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2017 17:14 >> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement >> Subject: [time-nuts] Autodesk Eagle -- maybe they're listening >> >> Autodesk just sent a follow-up to my "new price model unacceptable" >> complaint a few days ago. It looks like they are going to upgrade the >> "Standard" subscription ($100/year) to support 4 layer boards up to 160 >> cm2, which I think matches the current standard version capabilities. >> Here's a thread from the Autodesk forum: >> >> http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/eagle-forum/a-path-forward- >> for-the-make-license-a-step-up-for-standard/td-p/6823182 >> >> This is effective with the next release, which is supposed to be out in a >> couple of weeks. (In the meantime, I've made sure to download every flavor >> of installer for version 7.7.0, just in case...) >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to >> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/ >> mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
