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It sucks so much. We have a new 5 axis mill coming and we will need to buy a post, but we have the dilemma do we buy a post for software that I'm pretty sure will be dropped soon, or spend a lot more on new software and retraining.
In a few years when they finally kill it, it's very likely that the licensing will be switched to perpetual for the final release. I know this is a gamble, but they will be leaving themselves very exposed legally if they do not do this, so I think the odds are good that this is how it will happen.
At that point I can take my time to migrate incrementally, rather than suffer the downtime of switching cold turkey right now.
Gregor
Did you switch to the subscription model from maintenance?
Why?
I only have one seat of Premium, but the perpetual license was not going to leave my warm blooded hands no matter what.
Of course they did manage to make me stop the maintenance renewal earlier this year as there was absolutely no guarantee that future releases will
still activate as a perpetual, non named user license.
So, I quit paying for FC and Inventor PDSU, which leaves me with nearly 5K/year to bank towards whatever I might choose for the next system.
With the perpetual license still functioning and all things remain the same, I figure I still have some 5-6 years to make that decision, and as you've said, make the transition incrementally.
This Named User bulls$hit was the final straw.
All I see ADSK doing for the past 5 years is cannibalizing their industrial products/high end stuff and putting it into Fusion 360. They buy these companies (Like Delcam) for their technology, ostracize their userbase, stop giving meaningful updates, and forcing people into subscriptions they don't want....
These acquisitions are interesting, sometimes the numbers make sense, sometimes they don't.
Autodesk bought Delcam for $286 million.
Almost immediately dumped ArtCAM, PartMaker, dental and the shoe business. I get most of those are small potatoes to Adsk.
Now they are clearly retiring FeatureCAM.
Then spend a bunch of time putting high end functions into a low-to-mid-range CAD system (I'm sure people will argue that opinion)
The subscription for the Fusion 360 Manufacturing Extensions is $1,500 a year.
If Autodesk wants to get their investment back in Delcam from Fusion:
..In 5 years they would need 38,000 subscriptions of the manufacturing extensions per year.
..In 10 years they would only need 19,000 subs/year. (yes I know base Fusions overall may have also increased, but I'm trying to keep the math simple)
Plus another 50,000 seats per year to make up for the lost revenue Delcam was making when it was purchased.
Clearly I think they were simply buying the technology, and not trying to justify the purchase with sales or future sales. I'm not sure just porting the CAM functions over is enough. Shop floor programmers working on large molds and dies and tooling also use a lot of the "quick and dirty" CAD functions of PowerMill/PowerShape in their day to day activities. I'm not sure if those are, or will be, added to Fusion.
There are likely other business financial benefits Adsk got with the Delcam acquisition as frosting on the cake.
It really sucks too. DelCam was great organization with some really good people.
Chris Cole was an amazing support engineer!
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