Altium Designer license

[grimmjaw]

Hallo Everybody,

I am planning to migrate from to eagle to Altium Designer.
What I dont understand is, if I buy AD 13, i got one year subscription.

What happen when the subcription expired? Is mine copy od AD will lock up?
How crucial is the subcription in term of support and bugfixes(make more sense to post this here rather than AD forum)?

I'm planning to buy only 1 seat , and others will use AD viewer.Have anyone comment on the viewer?
For viewing the Sch/board .

Thank for the help.

grimmjaw

[David_AVD]

I have a single licence that I use on a few different machines at work and at home.

All my guys also have the viewer installed so they can view schematics and PCBs.

When your 12 month subscription runs out it still works, but you get no more updates.

[grimmjaw]

i see..it would be ridicilous if AD stop working after the subcription expired.
Thanks David

[_Sin]

i see..it would be ridicilous if AD stop working after the subcription expired.

Tell that to Adobe, as that's pretty much their business model now...

[M. András]

i see..it would be ridicilous if AD stop working after the subcription expired.

Tell that to Adobe, as that's pretty much their business model now...

i doubt they will get more sales instead of downloads from torrent etc regarding their softwares if they insist on that policy

[Rufus]

I am planning to migrate from to eagle to Altium Designer.

They have just announced a price hike from July 1st - you might want to hurry.

A price hike doesn't seem like a good idea to me especially when you consider they expect you to continue funding them with subscriptions. They haven't added much recently to justify it, plenty of people complain they don't add enough to justify the subscription.

[grimmjaw]

That why I'm asking here. The subcription cost alot of money, I'm wondering how crucial is it..

I hope the higher up approved the migraton but a bit hard to convince them since Eagle been working for years.

But after working with the trial version of AD, Eagle is a toy. 

[EEVblog]

Altium designer comes as a "Perpetual License", and can be purchased as such. That means that it continues to work forever.
However, unless you are on a current "subscription", you don't get updates or big fixes.
If you get subscription bundled with your initial purchase, then after 12 months you don't get any more bug fixes or updates, but yes it will continue to work.
So the key is to update just before your subscription ends (if you don't plan on keeping it up), and hope that the update doesn't include any additional bugs, otherwise you are stuck with them.

[grimmjaw]

Thanks all for the help. 

[free_electron]

All the recent updates allowed parallel install. So you can go back ...
Ive done two projects with the latest build (may) and haven't encountered any problems.  The original rel 13 had some problems.