WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW POST-DEADLINE:
- You can still renew Maintenance Subscriptions on your Perpetual licenses – in fact CADD recommends renewing for 3 years to lock-in today’s pricing
- You are no longer able to purchase Perpetual licenses or Design + Creation Suites – you’ll now purchase Industry Collections (instead of the Suites)
- Autodesk no longer users the terms “standalone” and “network” – there is now Single-User access (standalone) and Multi-User access (network)
- The Collections contain Navisworks Manage and other valuable Autodesk software: http://www.autodesk.com/collections
- If you have a Desktop Subscription of a Suite (Premium or Ultimate) you should be able to transfer to a Collection at no charge, in October 2016
- There is not a path to take Perpetual Maintenance Subscriptions to Desktop Collections today but the FAQ from Autodesk alludes a path will become available at a later time
- Multi-User Collections can only be purchased in 1,2, and 3 year terms – no quarterly or monthly options are available at this time. Single-User Collections can be purchased for quarterly, 1, 2, and 3 year terms
- Multi-User Collections will work with the latest version of the Autodesk License Manager and can be combined in a license file with Perpetual licenses
- Revit is Revit – there are no more “flavors” of Revit, so when you rent Revit you are renting the “Revit One Box” which contains Revit Architecture, Revit MEP, and Revit Structure
- You still have previous version rights (access to the most current version and 3 releases back) when you purchase Desktop Subscriptions
- When you subscribe to a Collection with Multi-User access, you will be able to grant shared access to cloud services, whereas with Suites, customers are limited to a single named user per cloud service
- You will need an internet connection for the initial download from Autodesk Account. Single Users need to connect every 30 days. Multi-User access does not require internet access
- If you have Legacy (older Autodesk software not on Subscription) you may be eligible for a trade-in discount promotion until October 21, 2016
