In a Facebook post, Autodesks Chip Weatherman made a point to convey Autodesk’s regard of the new Indie licensing program as being a “pilot” program. You don’t get full access to the Autodesk catalog like the educational licensing provides but it’s still a far cry short of the full $200/month price tag. The Indie license clocks in at around $20/month which should be doable for anyone generating income as a 3D artist. These licenses require one to be a currently-enrolled student and aren’t very useful to fresh graduates and freelancers. This includes 3DS Max, Maya, Revit, AutoCAD, Inventor, Fusion 360, and many other software packages. They offer an incredible educational licensing program that allows free use of many of their most popular programs. Licenses limited to US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, and AustraliaĪutodesk is regarded as a leader in the 3D field when it comes to fair pricing for its products.Annual gross revenue not in excess of $100,000 USD/year.Autodesk has outlined the following requirements for anyone seeking an Indie license: That is both would cost $500.īefore you get too excited, there are some eligibility requirements. The 3DS Studio Max and Maya Indie licenses are available for $250/year, per license. This is the studio price that, for many solopreneurs and smaller studios out there, is a bit hard to swallow. I am not guessing I am not trying to invent a story, this happened before to us, so I just passing the word.3D Studio Max licenses retail for $1,545/year or $195/month as an ongoing subscription. If you are a solo artist, this will more concentrated of course, but if you copy a tree or something that was modeled it could potentially maintain that warning message. It is true, What our CAD person explained, was that almost every element of that AutoCAD architecture or 3D Max design file that we received, it did have a code inside that will trigger that message every time you open that file or some part of it, so if you think in a large company some one will open that file, use as reference or model from it, copy layers or families or groups and that way that warning message will spread all though our network.

I've had students send me files to look at, this message pops up, but only on the files that came from the student, and never 'spread'.Īs for the files being usable, they opened fine on my Max (2014 design), so it might be a save issue with your files.

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