
Collaboration Products – AutoCAD Mobile App and Recap (Reality Capture) Pro. For a larger organization, yet more administration has to be done to manage the cloud credits and assign entitlement to the appropriate users.Īs of July 2019, the following Autodesk Cloud products are available:. For an individual or a small business, cloud credits are fairly easy to manage. What adds to the complexity is that to use Autodesk Rendering, you also need Cloud Credits. “Available only to subscribers and maintenance plan customers of select Autodesk software” While Autodesk does have cloud solutions for Building and construction, like BIM 360, and Manufacturing, like Fusion 360, some of their cloud offerings are additional products that require an existing subscription or maintenance agreement for related products to be in place before one can acquire the product. With other vendors, a cloud subscription is a straightforward alternative to an on-premise solution. This can make the correct management of an Autodesk relationship very complex. In May 2017, we stopped selling maintenance plans”.Īdding to the confusion, previous products and product bundles have either been discontinued or reconfigured into a new product.
“As of January 2016, Autodesk stopped selling new perpetual licenses. AutoDesk has been on an uncompromising drive to discontinue all perpetual licensing and move its customer base to subscription licenses.