To use full Revit it is about $4k a year, and you have to keep paying this, as you cannot run the app without the subscription.Īdd on top the super minor incremental changes they make per release, but force you into the upgrade pattern. They have been doing this for years, hence my previous comment of Autodesk being the biggest rort of all software. EG a person using Revit 2020 cannot open a model completed in 2021. No older version can open a new version model. Not exactly, as they all save to the Adobe creative cloud, and just don't work the same once discontinued.

Ditto with older versions of Omnigraffle, Curio, MATLAB, etc. Even though Adobe discontinued standalone (non-subscription) Lightroom, it still runs fine on a couple of my computers. If you want to do the same thing, keep using the same software or hardware.įor example, even though the iPhone 8+ has been long discontinued, my wife continues to use it because she only needs to keep doing the same things with it. It happens all the time with both software and hardware.

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