Question re. full AutoCAD license

[f700es]

Could you use one the free AutoCAD clones instead?

I agree 100% if 2D is all that you are doing. The reinstalling of demo's won't work unless you do some VM type of setup but again not worth the hassle imho.

[Murph_map]

Being with a former reseller of AutoCAD, I'll chime in with a little info. One, the EULA for the German version MAY prevent you from running the software out of that county. We had clients based here in the US that wanted to take their license with them overseas, they had to get permission from Autodesk to do so, you may be in the same situation. Second, the old clean out the registry to install another copy of the trial version does not work any longer, the info is burned into the motherboard. You will need to replace the motherboard every time you want to install the trial version again. (Autodesk and Microsoft created this, if you're using Mac versions you might be able to bypass that.
I'm with ReMark, if they don't want to get you a license for AutoCAD then go with one of the other CAD packages for free.

[SLW210]

Cheers for the answers...

I really need to get a handle on how the licensing thing works.

I'm stuck in the middle here of some office politics and it's wrecking my working methods and I need to front up the relevant parties.

Basically the UK Director seems to be refusing to raise this issue with the Germans for reasons unknown, other than maybe an unwillingness to ask for their help. He now expects me to simply re-download the trial version every month, which is a right royal pain and I'm not sure that is even possible.

I'm reluctant to go over his head and approach the German management directly for fear of being seen to undermine him.

My intention is to confront them both simultaneously, but before I do I need to know what I'm talking about.

Any more thoughts ?

1. If the company doesn't want to get you a license of AutoCAD don't worry about, tell your boss you refuse to violate the law and you have used your 30 day trial(2013 will be out soon for a trial maybe) they can get you a legal seat of AutoCAD or a clone or you will do NO CAD work.

2. Do your drawings in MS Paint.