The terms of their "startup" license were permissive enough that we reasonably qualified, which is why I've been freeloading for two years, but I was absolutely prepared to start paying in due time because it's definitely worth it. And having used it in exactly that capacity for about 2 years, the price is still a STEAL. And integrated ecad/mcad is the way of the future. Even liked the old interface, after I'd learned it. But I liked Eagle, still own it, have projects and libraries in it. And I'm serious about running a business/consultancy that makes money, I shouldn't baulk at paying $590 for professional tools. So because I hesitated, I've missed out of free F360, and if I want Eagle it's now $590/year! Aarrgh! What to do? I do want to learn F360, and the integration looks really nice. I was looking at the pricing online just last week - came so close to clicking the button to subscribe. Standard, because I design small boards and 4 layers has been fine so far. I've just last month bailed out of paid employment (as an engineer who occasionally used Altium on the job.) to do my own thing, and had decided to bite the bullet and take out an Eagle subscription. Another ~15m or maybe 30m later, I now have Eagle Premium for the next month.ĭamn! Missed out by this -> |-| much! I'm a long time Eagle user, have a perpetual v7 standard licence.
I then assigned only the license seat including Eagle Premium. I unassigned both entitlements from my user account, and about 15min later verified that Eagle would pull a "Free" license on logout/login. In the mean time, I went into my control panel on Autodesk and went to User Management. I was told this would "automatically" apply the Premium entitlement, but Eagle's pretty bad about fetching new licenses - I'm not sure if it simply won't "automatically" do that, or if it'll just take a stupid amount of time before it takes.
While not touching my $15/mo "F360 with Eagle Standard" subscription, I can simply ADD a $60/mo F360 subscription for 1mo. So for instance, I need Eagle Premium right now, temporarily. The answer is, you can have an arbitrary number of licenses tied to your account at any given time, and you just have to do some hoop jumping to assign them. The disadvantage is, well, if I need Eagle Premium for a project, how? I used to have Eagle Standard monthly, so I could switch to Eagle Premium on a whim when projects called for that. FYI for those in the same grandfathered Eagle Standard situation since I'm fighting through this right now: The benefit is F360 commercial gets added on for free, which is a total steal.
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