Inventor Licensing & User Agreement Intent?

[ToddF]

I run ProE/Creo student edition on my home desktop computer and my personal laptop, neither of which cost more than $400 or so. The school where we work does not allow any software to be installed on their computers which has not been vetted by the school system IT department. The team has to purchase our own laptops for students to do CAD work on. So, come on over to the non-Autodesk side of the force...

[Saberbot]

We have the same issue except with Solid works. We were hoping to purchase a Lenovo W530 for a CAD workstation, but we would not be able to install Solidworks on it because our school district claims all club property as district property.

[FrankJ]

My team's school buys an educational site license for its classes. So it doesn't come up.

It you are only using the software only for First you are complying with the intent if not the letter of the license. And no I will not pay your legal fees if bad things happen

[2544HCRC]

We are in the same boat. One of the selling points of FRC was that we could have access to the software and install it in the Mechanical DRAWING lab, yes you heard that right. The idea being that many of the second years were FRC kids anyway. I'm not sure how one would do it now as you would have to make up fictitious names and emails or at least an email account for every installation.

I see Autodesk moving in the right direction with these tools. I appreciate what they are trying to do but I also wish they would think through how teams might actually use the software.

While I'm at it, dear Autodesk, please fix the 123D products as well. Would it kill you to just put in an undo button? Especially on the ipad version.

[JohnHelfen]

Originally Posted by 2544HCRC

We are in the same boat. One of the selling points of FRC was that we could have access to the software and install it in the Mechanical DRAWING lab, yes you heard that right. The idea being that many of the second years were FRC kids anyway. I'm not sure how one would do it now as you would have to make up fictitious names and emails or at least an email account for every installation.

I see Autodesk moving in the right direction with these tools. I appreciate what they are trying to do but I also wish they would think through how teams might actually use the software.

While I'm at it, dear Autodesk, please fix the 123D products as well. Would it kill you to just put in an undo button? Especially on the ipad version.

On the 123D product, there is an undo option even in the iPad app. You may want to double check that you have the most recent version installed. On the iPad app the undo and redo buttons sit just above the horizontal toolbar at the bottom of the screen. Undo is on the left. Redo is on the right.

Thanks,

John

[dustinjeremy2k]

Isn't anyone from Autodesk going to reply?... I guess I'm asking, "Do you want me to expose 50 kids per year to Inventor or not?" This just seems to be bad business, and I was hoping I was wrong. Please tell me what I must be missing!

[dustinjeremy2k]

Originally Posted by FrankJ

My team's school buys an educational site license for its classes. So it doesn't come up.

Can I ask how much that costs annually (ballpark)?

[FrankJ]

That was not shared with me. I also don't know if it depends on the school size or other factors.

As for a question for Autodesk. I would ask them directly rather than posting in public forum. You will be more likely to get an answer for your specific problem.

[synth3tk]

Originally Posted by FrankJ

As for a question for Autodesk. I would ask them directly rather than posting in public forum. You will be more likely to get an answer for your specific problem.

Just make sure to cross-post the answer here for others.