Don't let Draftsight Standard sub expire: No longer available to buy.
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2022 10:53 am
I am very disappointed and angry. Or, I am missing something.
If you 've been paying the least bit of attention to Draftsight over the past years, you know darn well that Draftsight is no longer free. This, even though we were sold Solidworks to replace AutoCAD because it had a free DWG file editor. When that changed, even though we are paying for Premium Solidworks licenses, it was not included with our continued patronage. OK, so we sucked it up and purchased subscriptions to Draftsight Standard.
Today I am adding a new user. I go to buy a new license. ALL They offer is Professional, Premium, and Enterprise (and the Swmp version too).
We continue to pay our subs for Draftsight Standard. It still works. I just can't get an additional license of it ?!?
Do I have to contact my VAR to provide the secret handshake to purchase the product I wish to use? Is this where I should start?
Is there really no other available option (besides buying another product) than to pay 2.5x more for the bundle of features that we don't use at all?
Or, is there a way to deactivate a license on a different unused PC with Draftsight Standard on it, so that I can install what we already have onto the new PC? As a totally inconvenient workaround, I could have my user walk over to use the old PC as needed.
If you 've been paying the least bit of attention to Draftsight over the past years, you know darn well that Draftsight is no longer free. This, even though we were sold Solidworks to replace AutoCAD because it had a free DWG file editor. When that changed, even though we are paying for Premium Solidworks licenses, it was not included with our continued patronage. OK, so we sucked it up and purchased subscriptions to Draftsight Standard.
Today I am adding a new user. I go to buy a new license. ALL They offer is Professional, Premium, and Enterprise (and the Swmp version too).
We continue to pay our subs for Draftsight Standard. It still works. I just can't get an additional license of it ?!?
Do I have to contact my VAR to provide the secret handshake to purchase the product I wish to use? Is this where I should start?
Is there really no other available option (besides buying another product) than to pay 2.5x more for the bundle of features that we don't use at all?
Or, is there a way to deactivate a license on a different unused PC with Draftsight Standard on it, so that I can install what we already have onto the new PC? As a totally inconvenient workaround, I could have my user walk over to use the old PC as needed.