Is the Subscription for Autodesk Inventor suite worth while?
Is the Subscription for Autodesk Inventor suite worth while?
(OP)
We recently purchased Autodesk Inventor Suite (Inventor 2010) and need to decide if we want the Subscription service.
The subscription seems to offer all upgrades and unlimited telephone support for the subscription year. How many upgrades can be expected in a year? How often have you used telephone support? In your experience has Subscription been worth the price?
Thank you.
The subscription seems to offer all upgrades and unlimited telephone support for the subscription year. How many upgrades can be expected in a year? How often have you used telephone support? In your experience has Subscription been worth the price?
Thank you.





RE: Is the Subscription for Autodesk Inventor suite worth while?
We've abandoned the subscription, and have decided to stick with 2009 (SP2 I think), to avoid the trouble that yearly upgrades have caused (older files and drawings being "broken" by the updates, loss of content center information, the list is long...). Since we can export model data to .step and .sat from this version, we figure we are good for a few years or so. Cheaper and less troublesome to upgrade at less frequent intervals, especially given Adesk's inability to maintain backwards compatability with their own product.
My company's $.02.
RE: Is the Subscription for Autodesk Inventor suite worth while?
and btrueblood there are very few if any (I can't name one can you?) 3d cad applications that suppport backwards compatibility.
RE: Is the Subscription for Autodesk Inventor suite worth while?
Um. Well, I know of several, the original AutoCad included, that can open older version files without causing conniptions (drawing dimensions losing associativity), and breaking the file for older version users.
RE: Is the Subscription for Autodesk Inventor suite worth while?
RE: Is the Subscription for Autodesk Inventor suite worth while?
RE: Is the Subscription for Autodesk Inventor suite worth while?
My company needed to respond today to get the reduced rate for subscription. Based on the above comments I have recommended that we get the first year at the reduced rate and evaluate it yearly.
RE: Is the Subscription for Autodesk Inventor suite worth while?
RE: Is the Subscription for Autodesk Inventor suite worth while?
".. None support backwards compatibility."
Well...to varying degrees. But, I am no expert. I just know that EVERY release of Inventor has been that way, and that not every release of SW was. It's irritating, time-consuming, and troublesome to have to update files, reverify models and drawings, etc. etc. I think many/most software companies have become very cavalier of late with this issue. Sorry to be so cranky.
RE: Is the Subscription for Autodesk Inventor suite worth while?
RE: Is the Subscription for Autodesk Inventor suite worth while?
I agree that if you are just starting with Inventor, you are deffinitely going to want to have some sort of tech support available (especially if you use Vault).