If you don’t like to pay every year Graebert offers you the flexibility to buy a perpetual license instead. Graebert's migration offer is cost-effective and risk-free. After the first year you are free to go for another solution or to the AutoCAD rental model if you like to. So as you can see, if you are currently using AutoCAD or any other CAD software, you will only pay $125 the first year and $250 after if you like to switch to ARES Commander. Prices may vary – Source Autodesk store in June 2015 Much more than a cost-effective clone, Graebert has been massively investing in Research & Development to bring you additional productivity.īut let’s focus first on the price and the ARES Commander migration offer if you are currently using AutoCAD or another CAD software: More than 7 million users work with solutions based on this powerful CAD technology from Graebert.ĪRES Commander uses DWG as its native format and offers a very easy transition.

Orphan users with an old license and no possibility to buy upgradesĪRES Commander is the n☁ alternative for CAD in DWG.

Rental users paying eg $360 per year for AutoCAD LT® or $1680 per year for AutoCAD® (price may vary).

(Old) fellow users who have a perpetual license and will pay a subscription every year – if they stop paying they fall into the 3rd category below.

See also all the quotes Graebert collected from angry users after this policy change: Angry AutoCAD® customers: Unhappy about new upgrade policy As a matter of fact, starting from 2016 there will only be 3 categories of Autodesk users left:

From Januyou will no longer be able to buy perpetual licenses – new users will have to pay the rent.

From January 2015 (extended by a small period of marketing campaigns) you can no longer buy upgrades – if you have an old license you can only buy a new license or start renting.

If you spent the last months in a tech-free retreat on an island or mountain, let me remind you the facts: If you are a CAD user, you probably have followed the recent changes in the pricing policy from Autodesk.

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