FREE Autodesk Fusion360 Ultimate for hobbyists

[mitchejc]

Ah, thanks Gerry, I missed the 1 year part in the fine print. That makes it a bit risky as I would never be able to afford or justify the subscription for the Ultimate version which has the cool 3d strategies. I always wanted to cut a nice set of alu rims for a RC car so maybe I'll do that and move on. Hopefully they are using the free period to gather usage data for hobbyists and come up with some sort of licensing scheme that makes it affordable for such use?

[Ger21]

In November they had an introductory offer to get Ultimate for the standard price of $300/year, supposedly for life.
I locked in for the $300, but haven't used it yet.

[m.marino]

From what I see it limits to either earning over 100K US from a project or one year of usage and that AutoDesk can change that IF they give you e-mail or telephonic notice.

Michael

[thomashomer1986]

You can get any of the Autodesk software if you register as a student, and no you don't need any proof, just say your studying from home. I've just finished studying with the Open University and I got the student version of Inventor, which is basically exactly the same as the official version except you get a watermark around the borders of any drawings you may want to print off. You can still export to .dxf or .pdf files as well.

You get given a licence code which last 3 years, after which you can just re-register and download again.