Why I don´t have access to the SAP as a registered student?

Ok I will rephrase the question.

As a registered student what I must do to get access to the SAPs?

If someone will care to reply I will be very grateful.

Or I will switch to Maya.  Even I have been using Softimage since Softimage 3D 3.5

Please! Don’t do that… :)

I will answer, even if I’m not 100% sure.

I think SAP is only available for the commercial version, and not for the student version. I guess this principle is applied for all software.

Thanks a lot.  Even if I don´t have the SAP I will NOT switch to Maya.

I have mailed AD and no response.

I don´t know if there is a Subscription for students.

Would be nice to know.

I hope this is help for you.

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?id=14022754&siteID=123112

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OK, I get it. So you buy into 2012 and that is what you get until 2013 period. Unless you pay extra for the intermediate upgrades even if you buy the software a far into the period of the previous release.

I guess one thing I have not fully understood as to how it works. Is there only one SAP per year?

And what about other bug fixes and periodic updates?

The way it appears to work - I could be wrong - is if they fix a bug from 2012, that is obviously included in the current build to date. But if they only update once per year and you don’t have the SAP then you don’t get the bug fixes.

Or are the SAP and SP separate? And how do they keep it all organized? So if they fix bugs and add new features these are separate builds? SP compatible with 2012 and separately SAP for 2012?

Or if they fix bugs and add features in the SAP you don’t get those bug fixes without SAP?

Richard Culver

http://www.richardculver.com

Richard Culver 30 September 2011 08:14 PM

OK, I get it. So you buy into 2012 and that is what you get until 2013 period. Unless you pay extra for the intermediate upgrades even if you buy the software a far into the period of the previous release.

I guess one thing I have not fully understood as to how it works. Is there only one SAP per year?

And what about other bug fixes and periodic updates?

The way it appears to work - I could be wrong - is if they fix a bug from 2012, that is obviously included in the current build to date. But if they only update once per year and you don’t have the SAP then you don’t get the bug fixes.

Or are the SAP and SP separate? And how do they keep it all organized? So if they fix bugs and add new features these are separate builds? SP compatible with 2012 and separately SAP for 2012?

Or if they fix bugs and add features in the SAP you don’t get those bug fixes without SAP?

One AP per year.
AP is “early access” to features that will be in the next major release.

SP releases are bug fixes, not features.

An SP could be for an AP, or it could be for the regular release, or both.
After the AP is released, it is possible we have to release two versions of a SP: one for the regular version, and one for the AP version.

There are separate branches.
I may be simplifying a bit, but 2012 AP is a branch of 2012 that includes new features from the 2013 branch.

OK. Thanks for the clarification. Makes sense perfect sense now. :-)

Richard Culver

http://www.richardculver.com