can't upgrade revit series separate?

[3dsketcher]

we've recently decided to take advantage of the revit series upgrade for all our licenses but will only place 30% on revit series subscription thinking that that will probably be our maximum revit users within the 3 year period. we usually don't put autocad on subscription and we put all our autocad licenses on a 3-year must upgrade cycle.

we've been informed that we can not 'upgrade' our revit 'only' part of the series in the future unless we upgrade the 'series' combo which i would think would be more expensive. meaning we can't use the same strategy of no subscription for autocad but subscribe revit since we fill all the yearly revit upgrades are still substantial.

does anybody have the same situation? can anybody clarify this further?

[tc3dcad60731]

I believe that you can pay a crossgrade fee to go to straight revit and then place that only on sub. However, you can not have RS and then only upgrade the Revit part. They will not allow that at all!

[Scott D Davis]

To "subscribe" to Revit Series is a subscription to both Revit and AutoCAD. You can install whatever you want. We are currently running Revit 9.0 and AutoCAD 2005 on Series. We "own" ACAD 2007 because of the subscription, but haven't installed it.

[3dsketcher]

thanks.

so i have to decide whether not to do the revit series upgrade on the 70% no matter how enticing the same price is right now and just do autocad upgrade.

and if i do so, i have to see if the cost for up/crossgrading from plain autocad to revit is cheaper than upgrading the revit series (not on sub) later when we find that we need more revit licenses.

[dhurtubise]

You should do your calculation again. You ain't saving any money by not getting the subscription. Plus, talk to your accounting dep, but in my part of the world, the way we spend money influence our taxes at the end of the year. So we are better on subscription. But like Scott, we still run AutoCAD 2006 wjile Revit is 9

[bh]

Everything answered so far is correct. You cannot separate a Revit Series and upgrade only one part; in fact the only way to upgrade a Series, or any Revit for that matter, is through subscription. Unlike AutoCAD (or ADT), there is very little point in avoiding subscription because the only way to get the current version is to pay the unpaid subscription since your purchase date PLUS a "late" administration fee.

Good Luck in your decision; but if you are using both, the Series is your best bet.

BH
Vancouver

[Andre Baros]

It brings up a questions I've been curious about lately. Lets say that your office standard is ACAD 2004 and you don't want to upgrade yet but you hire new people. Is there any way to buy more licenses of the "old" AutoCAD or do you have to buy 2007 for the new hires?

BTW, Revit subscription isn't like AutoCAD subscription, you look forward to Revit releases and upgrades are painless. Also, after 3 years of Revit, you won't be using much AutoCAD anyway and you'll really appreciate having all those extra licenses of Revit as upgrades not cross-grades.