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Originally Posted by sanddrag
Autodesk has no problem giving away free student licenses to any college student in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial design, gaming/animation, or civil engineering or architecture disciplines. Why not any high school FIRST student? Why only 10? Why only 30 day trials? Build season is ~6 weeks long. And we like to be productive pre and post season too.
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To be clear, they offer a total of 10 limited licences for Inventor 11, and 5 for Max, which when installed, function as 30 day trials until activated, and after that, become one-year trials. The
students.autodesk.com system (where the licences are permanent, free and for educational use only) is far more useful—but you need university student mentors to take advantage of it.
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Originally Posted by sanddrag
Elimination of awards!?!? How does this show our animators that what they are doing is important? How does this get more teams to submit animations? No inventor awards at regionals!?!? I don't think we had them before, but we have always needed them, and to not get them again is a big disappointment.
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If I had to hazard a guess, this might have to do with the lack of consistency in the existing voting process. It looks like they want to use a core group of experts to evaluate all entries on a level basis, rather than try to judge each regional's winner separately. Note also that participation in the AVA and AIA are not especially high—many teams have other priorities, and this leads to regionals where these awards are bestowed upon mediocre entries, for lack of any signficant competition.