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Being a CAD user for many years I like to download new (as in annually) versions to see what is new, Usually not much. So I have the 30 day free trial of Autodesk Inventor. There is a count down clock on the top of the screen telling you how many days you have left and at the end of the countdown it shuts the program off. Mine doesn't change.
Now I rarely shut my computer off, preferring to leave it in standby mode, where the computer shuts down but leaves power to the RAM so that it starts up quickly just by touching the space bar. I rarely shut down Inventor, I just minimize it so it is ready to go when I need to use it.
Apparently the clock only changes when you shutdown the program/computer and then it resets when it starts up again. Mine was stuck at 29 days for a couple of weeks and then I had to shut it down to do windows software updates, it came back on at 10 days and there it has sat for over two weeks now, several days past the end of the trial.
So if you don't shutdown your computer/program, as in you don't care about windows updates etc., the power doesn't go off or some other malady befalls you, you can in theory have Inventor for free. Well, extended a couple of months is more realistic but if you can keep it going then maybe you could upgrade to the next years version. Who knows maybe the bug won't be fixed.
If this bothers you because you think it is piracy, it shouldn't your just using the program as it was sent to you. If they didn't want you to use it forever then they should have fixed the @#$!%^& program first.
Inventor - $3500
Inventor Pro - $7500
Getting it for free - Priceless
No really, priceless as in free.
Now I rarely shut my computer off, preferring to leave it in standby mode, where the computer shuts down but leaves power to the RAM so that it starts up quickly just by touching the space bar. I rarely shut down Inventor, I just minimize it so it is ready to go when I need to use it.
Apparently the clock only changes when you shutdown the program/computer and then it resets when it starts up again. Mine was stuck at 29 days for a couple of weeks and then I had to shut it down to do windows software updates, it came back on at 10 days and there it has sat for over two weeks now, several days past the end of the trial.
So if you don't shutdown your computer/program, as in you don't care about windows updates etc., the power doesn't go off or some other malady befalls you, you can in theory have Inventor for free. Well, extended a couple of months is more realistic but if you can keep it going then maybe you could upgrade to the next years version. Who knows maybe the bug won't be fixed.
If this bothers you because you think it is piracy, it shouldn't your just using the program as it was sent to you. If they didn't want you to use it forever then they should have fixed the @#$!%^& program first.
Inventor - $3500
Inventor Pro - $7500
Getting it for free - Priceless
No really, priceless as in free.
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