Listening in on this email trail it's pretty clear the subscription model the vendors are moving toward have gotchas for the users. Before you decide to quit you had better back everything up to a neutral format: STEP for solids and PDF or DXF for the drawings. I 'own' SolidWorks2015 but it is running on Win7 and pretty soon the computer will die and I am not confident SW2015 will run properly on Win10. So, I had better begin the backup process....
Glenn On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 10:53 AM Ron Buck <buck....@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a F360 license - single seat locked in at $350 per year. List price > is $495. AD seems to run promotions once or twice a year. Right now you can > get it for ~$300. Less I think if you buy 3 years upfront. What I remember > from the ads I’m getting. > > Remember F360 (and I’m pretty sure the SW deal) are subscriptions; they > can (and do) change the rules from time to time. I certainly have my issues > AD, but I’m a reasonably happy user. I bought the single seat a year or 2 > ago even though I’m a home user, because you had to know they were going to > keep adding further restrictions to the free license. > > For some, that won’t buy a single good bottle of Whiskey, but for me at > the moment its about 3. Remember: there are no bad whiskey’s, just > different ones :) > > Ron > > > On Sep 17, 2020, at 10:36 AM, John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> > wrote: > > > >> From: Eric Keller [mailto:keller...@gmail.com] > >> Sent: September-17-20 10:16 AM > >> Last time I checked, many years ago now, solidworks without simulations > was > >> $4k. They have sometimes not offered that split and it was $8k with the > >> simulations. I feel like it hasn't gotten cheaper. Anyone have a recent > >> price? > >> Eric Keller > >> Boalsburg, Pennsylvania > >> > >> On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 1:13 PM John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> > >> wrote: > >> > >>>> From: N [mailto:nicklas.karlsso...@gmail.com] > >>>> Watchout, if they discover you use it for anything commercial maybe > they > >>> come and want the full fee. > >>> > >>> What's the fee for small usage? The key change they've made is the > >>> inability to export step or iges files to other CAD systems. You have > >>> until January to save all your drawings in that format. > >>> > >>> But how much per year does a license really cost? Or to put it in a > much > >>> more eloquent currency, how many bottles of good Scotch do you have to > give > >>> up per year for it? > >>> > >>> John Dammeyer > > > > > > Actually I was wondering more about Fusion360 per year. If it's > $50/month then that's $600 per year and that's still less than I'm paying > for the combination of AlibreCAD and 4 axis AlibreCAM (MecSoft). > > > > But, all I lose if I stop paying is upgrades and support. The licence > for the two PCs (only one runs at a time) is indefinite. So if I decided > to stop paying I can continue to use it until the PCs die. Then > transferring it will probably require a new license. That's what I liked > about the USB dongles. They were plugged into a USB to Ethernet device and > although I was still restricted to one unit active at a time I didn't need > to move the dongles around. > > > > I worry that Fusion360, will lock up your files if you stop paying. > > > > John > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users < > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users> > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
