It has been a few (many) years. Please excuse my AutoCAD olds question

1,017 Views | 7 Replies | Last: 7 yr ago by Agmechanic
Burdizzo
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I have not done any design work in a long, long, time. I picked up a little consulting work on the side of my regular job and may be needing to do a little CAD work. Am I correct in understanding that you no longer buy AutoCAD outright but pay an annual (or monthly) license fee? I checked the Auto Desk website, and that was the impression I got.
chipotle
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That's sort of correct. I believe you can still buy the building suites up to a certain time (that may have just passed) but I know the deadline for individual products has passed. I know because our vender has hounded me over and over on the subject.

FYI, the building suites are 6-7k a seat.
chipotle
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Just checked my emails, July 29th is the last day for a perpetual license for building suite(revit, autocad, max, etc).
Yellerjacket
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If all you're doing is "a little CAD work", then you can probably get by with AutoCAD LT. It's only $360/yr. We have a Revit LT Suite subscription for about $500/yr. We get every new release as soon as it is released and the last 2 releases before that are available in case the latest is a clunker.
Hagen95
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AG
You are correct in your OP, Autodesk has gone to the license side of the equation.
Burdizzo
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Thanks for all the replies on this.
lb3
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Burdizzo
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Thanks for the tip. At most I will need to do a handful of shop drawings, maybe a couple of controls diagrams. Nothing overly complicated.
Agmechanic
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NanoCad is interesting as well
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