Their products are buggy and overpriced, and will soon be more of both given their intention to move to a completely cloud-based platform that ensures they control your every use of their increasingly poor performing products. For recognizing that, and for doing their part to keep their user base educated and employed, we’re proud to welcome Autodesk to the running for the 2012 Makey Awards.Īutodesk is a company that just laid off 7% of its staff because of a bad earnings report (while still being profitable) and has forced its way into market domination by purchasing every real competitor they have had.
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For many professional jobs in engineering, construction, manufacturing, and other vital industries, having up-to-date skills in the Autodesk programs that dominate design workflows can mean the difference between getting a job and not. In one fundamental sense, education is ultimately about the economy-about producing useful, skilled workers. For eligible participants, the Autodesk Assistance Program (which ran from April 2009 through January 2011) provided free student licenses on over 25 Autodesk products, free ’round-the-clock online training, and access to heavily discounted classroom training, certification exams, and commercial software licenses.
Unlike many other developers, however, Autodesk has traditionally offered student licenses that are entirely free and, as recently as 2011, has extended its free licensing program to the unemployed. Like many developers of professional software tools, Autodesk has long maintained a reduced-cost educational licensing program for qualified students and faculty. Today, Autodesk products serve all sectors of the professional 3D design market, from engineering, to architecture, to entertainment, as well as an increasing number of consumer-level and mobile applications. has historically lead the way in the development of digital design technology. Graphics and More to Help Spread the Wordįounded in 1982 with the launch of their flagship AutoCAD software, San Rafael’s Autodesk, Inc. Learn More About the Amazing Maker Awards Subscribe to the premier DIY magazine todayĬommunity access, print, and digital Magazine, and moreīrowse and Vote on Your Favorite Projects Skill builder, project tutorials, and more Get hands-on with kits, books, and more from the Maker Shed
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