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Marquez Feliciano

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Aug 3, 2024, 3:31:52 PM8/3/24

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I am a high school construction teacher. I want my class to be able to use the AutoCAD mobile app on their school-issued iPads. I had them all create an education account but when they try to log in on the app it wants them to pick a either the 7 day free trial or the monthly payment version. How can I get my students around this? I was able to log in just fine on the app but I have autodesk on my computer at home. The students do not have the ability to download the desktop version. please help!

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My Students do not have the ability to download the desktop version. we use iPads only at our school. I would like for them to be able to just log in on the mobile app and use it. I have the software on my laptop but i was wondering if there was a way they could skip over the desktop download?

For your students to have access to the AutoCAD Moblile app they will each need an educational account, where they would select AutoCAD from the "Free Software" section on the edu website, this will give access to both the desktop & mobile application. Make sure they sign out of the app after use.

As far as I can tell it's automatically assigned when you install ACAD, as I have it in my manage products list under student license so whilst not assignable itself its a consequense of having an ACAD EDU license, this just a single user not sure about networks...

Yes, the educational institution would set up a "IT professional" account, that account will have access to a multi-seat standalone option. The mobile app would then be activated/sign-in using the licenses from the educational institutions account.

First of all, I want to say it is great that you create a mobile version for students. I need to do my coursework while studying social media, I have learned some information and it turned out that young people (students especially) prefer smartphones to get to the internet and use apps (according to numbers of surveys). Also, I get help from -my-coursework this service, where I order a paper to get some materials to compare. So, I can say you help to get in touch with your students so much, wish you will solve the problem.

I have Inventor and InventorCAM, both installed on the same day. Some time ago I got a message ( either email or on Inventor I cant remember which ) saying my educational licence would expire in 90 days so I need to renew it. So I renewed it, and it came up that my 12 month licence had renewed and I had 12 months to go. So straight away it ripped me off 3 months.

Fast forward to a few days ago, and when I opened up Inventor it came up with an alert that Inventor CAM would expire in 14 days. So I clicked the activate button, the screen changed to "congratulations on renewing, you have 12 months etc". I also received an email saying the same thing. The next day I opened Inventor, same warning about InventorCAM, so I did it again, and got the congratulations email again. Today I open it again, SAME WARNING!!!! Now down to 11 days. So I did it again, and got the congratulations email again, but I think tomorrow it will happen again.

The same thing that is happening with InventorCAM, is happening FeatureCAM. FeatureCAM was installed some time after Inventor and InventorCAM. I have logged into my Autodesk account, and when I renewed Inventor, it asked me for which Educational institution I work for etc, and I did all that and it confirmed the renewal, and since then it says on my account page that I have access to Autodesk products until April 19, 2022.

Clearly I am missing a trick somewhere, because my Autodesk Educational page says I have access until April 19, 2021, but when I open the products they say they are expiring in 10 days time. I really love Inventor and InventorCAM, ( FeatureCAM is terrible but I'm forced to use it ) but the licence renewal thing is very painful indeed. Surely all the products I have ( Inventor, InventorCAM, and FeatureCAM ) can be grouped together so they all expire on the same anniversary, and I can renew my account on that anniversary, rather than renewing each individual product on each products' anniversary?

How do I find the expiry date for FeatureCAM? I think that must also be Saturday 12 June 2021 as when I opened both InventorCAM and FeatureCAM this morning they both gave me the 10 days to expiry message.

I still don't understand why any / all of them expire in June / July this year, when my Autodesk account says I have access until April 19, 2022? I think that April 19 this year was when I renewed Inventor, when I had to find my educational institution on the list and confirm that etc.

How do you mean request them again exactly? Download? Install? or something else? when I go to the page you linked to, and log in, then go to the InventorCAM, I can choose the version ( 2021, 2022 etc ) and either install or download.

Let this license expire then request a new license. To request a new license go to the student software page and start the download of the products you want. You can ignore/cancel the installer download since the license is added to your account at the sametime when you download the installer.

There have been some changes I guess in 2020... Which now issue licenses of only 1 Year, and we have to Re-Submit our Documents to verify our student status... As Leo said, you can wait for 9 days, and than apply for Educational Licenses HERE...

No I wasn't able to get this sorted out. This year around, I was able to renew Inventor / InventorCAM, but not FeatureCAM. I clicked the link that FeatureCAM sent me to renew, it takes you to the page, I click renew, it comes up "comgratulations your access has been renewed for 12 months", but it doesn't renew it, as FeatureCAM still counts down the days until expiry, and it eventually expired. I didn't receive the email saying my access was extended either. Yet when I go to my page it says I have educational access until next year so there shouldn't be a problem, but there is.

In the end, I uninstalled FeatureCAM from my computer, and got a fresh version, but instead of getting it under the single user ( I tried that, but it kept coming up as before - access expired ), I got it under the class / lab tab, so I got 125 licences. So I have it working for now, but is next year going to be the same drama?

Why can't all the products I use expire on the same date ( regardless of install date ), then I renew and it renews everything at once, rather than having to renew each product 12 months form the date that particular product was installed, as in my case the products were not all installed on the same date, meaning I have to do several renewals throughout the year as each product reaches its' anniversary.

Thanks for the feedback and sorry for the frustration. We are aware of the issues that some education customers are having with renewals, and we have been working with our engineering teams to address these issues.

What you describe is the intended behavior: One renewal date for product subscriptions, which is tied to your educational access/eligibility date. It is our goal to work toward ensuring that all education customers are having a consistent experience with product access and renewals.

Sorry for the difficulty with Inventor. Per my previous reply in this thread, are you clicking Get product for Inventor on the Get Products page? That should trigger the renewal subscription for you.

I tried the 'Get Product' multiple times, with different Browsers, on different days.
In some other post I found a hint to clear the entire browser cache and to use the browsers incognito mode.

It's hard to say for sure what resolved it, but we've also been running some backend fixes on accounts that were experiencing date-related renewal issues, so it could be that your account was fixed sometime during the time that you were trying various steps, too.

Hello everyone. I have the same exact problem with Civil 3D and revit. I renewed my student license 3 days before expiring, when i follow the restart access link and login into the autodesk website via my browser it says that my license is renewed until next year. Yet is doesn't seem to this syncronize this back to the individual autodesk applications. The autodesk desktop connector and autodesk desktop app do say the my license is renewed, but don't circle this back to the individual applications. I allready uninstalled and installed civil 3d, restarted everything etc.

It's really strange, for some applications like civil, revit, recap the license doens't seem to be updated. Yet for inventor it does. When I tried logging out, and in again with recap photo it gave me the following message without explination. @gabe.anderson what can I try to resolve this issue?

I've asked our education support team for input. Do you have an existing support case with us? If not, I'd recommend you submit one to help resolve and track this issue: Education Get Help -> click the ? in bottom right.