Q: Can you use this free license to do g̶e̶n̶e̶r̶a̶t̶i̶v̶e̶ ̶d̶e̶s̶i̶g̶n̶, shape optimization, etc? A: Yes. However, there is a LOT of communication and information straight from Autodesk is highly misleading. That said, this is perhaps besides the point, as Autodesk does give the software for free, and it is entirely up to them how they chose to license its use. The expense on Autodesk part incurred for this service in terms of CPU time, hardware degradation, power consumption, etc, is also no where comparable to the credit cost. Most simulations for 3d-printing are sufficiently simple that the simulation would run and complete much faster locally on an average desktop computer, than on the cloud, simply due to the latency in network traffic, allocating jobs, doing the credits transaction, etc. Head over to do a simulation, and encounter this credit limit.įEM simulations for shape optimization of the simple nature for 3d-prints require no special hardware. Lots of popular youtube channels show the use, and a lot of people, myself included, will download the software, learn it. The simulations in question that require cloud solvers are:ĭue to the previous licensing, and a per-solve upper cloud credit limit, but otherwise unlimited credits, this was a great feature. 100 credits are given for free, but just learning how this tooling works will already use those before you know it, and after that, you can purchase them at the rate of 1 dollar a credit, at a bulk of 100 at a time. Shape optimization is a common simulation here, that now requires 5 cloud credits per solve. In particular, this applies to the 3D-printing community that now would use the Personal License. In order to set the record straight, I'd like to post this information here, as there is a lot of misinformation on this topic, and it took a while to find solid information on this.
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