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Autodesk continues to sell Standard Premium and Ultimate versions and has not altered the bundles configurations too much.Īutodesk AutoCAD Design Suite 2015 has a new refined visual interface, enhanced point cloud support, and better ways to work with online maps.Īutodesk Building Design Suite 2015 has enhanced integration with Autodesk’s BIM 360 cloud services, also benefits from better point cloud capabilities, and a raft of updates to Revit.Īutodesk Infrastructure Design Suite 2015 includes major enhancements to the AutoCAD-based Civil 3D software, including: user interface, corridor modelling, more efficient profile layouts, more consistency between the AutoCAD Civil 3D and AutoCAD ribbon/command set, production drafting, and simpler ways to create custom sub-assemblies. Some products are the web-based equivalents of the desktop version, for example AutoCAD 360 for AutoCAD 2015, however the cloud-based version may not be as feature-rich as the desktop, as of yet. If it has a year in the title, it is a desktop application. However, in doing so, the company has sacrificed some product clarity and something tells me this is going to get worse before it gets better.Īs a general rule, if a product has ‘360’ after it, it is a cloud-based application, platform or service. The AEC team has been very busy this year, both with products and web services and has introduced a number of new products and brand terms at the same time. Cloud Service Subscription, which provides a selection of cloud-based services that offer access to visualisation and simulation as well as expanded mobile and collaborative accessĪutodesk firmly believes that customers will benefit from these services it provides through cloud computing.ĭesktop products have been updated to make use of its cloud-based functionality (analysis, rendering, data storage) and Autodesk is experimenting with cloud-based, web-accessed versions of its popular applications (AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor etc).Īccording to Autodesk, the future is collaboration and server-based power.Customers stay on their current releases and then move to this term-based model for future products / updates Customers who wish to buy new licences will also be put on Maintenance Subscription Maintenance Subscription, which subscribes existing licenses.Instead, customers now have the following options: The old upgrade cycle has now ceased to exist.

Autodesk moves closer to becoming a services business and takes a leap from a 30-year-old upgrade cycle to a subscription only and rental model.Īutodesk has spent years perfecting its yearly release and upgrade cycle, managing to produce feature-rich upgrades up until the 2012 introduction of Suites.Īn Autodesk subscription is modelled like a club membership and moves customers from the perception of ‘owning’ software to paying to have access to services.