Subscription is a licensing model that grants time-limited right. Your application will stop functioning once your subscription period is over. Subscription is priced at a flat fee, which is lower than a new perpetual license fee.

Perpetual license grants perpetual right to develop and to distribute your application. New license purchase includes first year of maintenance, i.e. access to new releases of CAD Exchanger. After that, although your app will continue to function and you may continue to develop it, you will no longer be eligible to new CAD Exchanger releases. To continue that, you will need to renew your maintenance (which is 50% of the new license fee).

Thus, these two license types offer different trade-offs in terms of:

• duration (time-limited vs perpetual)
• renewal requirement (enforced vs optional)
• fee levels (annual flat fees vs higher new and lower maintenance fees)
• cost of ownership over project duration

First off, you must consider your end-users' needs and your ability to update your application.

If you develop a classical desktop application that will be installed on numerous end-user seats, your end-users require perpetual execution (i.e. your own app's license is perpetual) and you are not able to update your application's installation quickly (e.g. if your end-users are behind firewalls) then the Perpetual license is your only option.

If you develop an in-house app or a public cloud platform where everything is under your direct control and your app can be updated quickly (by updating CAD Exchanger's binaries and/or license key) then you may choose between the Perpetual license and Subscription.

When making this choice consider the total duration of the project and cashflow. If you plan to use CAD Exchanger for more than 3-4 years, the Perpetual license is more cost-effective (although your initial new license fee will be higher). If you expect to use it for shorter than 3 years then Subscription may be more cost-effective (with flat annual fees).

New perpetual license fee is 1.6x the Subscription fee. Maintenance fee is 50% of the new perpetual license fee.

The total cost of ownership with the subscription option is lower during the first years (given its lower upfront payment). However for long-term projects, the perpetual license becomes more cost-effective.

For convenience, all purchases are aligned to a common renewal date, which is defined by the first purchase. When a new module is purchased, its fee (either new license fee in the case of Perpetual license or a Subscription fee) is paid in full. When the first purchase renewal comes due, the maintenance or subscription fee of the new purchase is prorated to align to a common renewal date.

Example (Subscription license): On July 1, 2023 you made your first purchase of the plan "Pro" with the annual fee of $15,000. On November 15, 2023 you buy the "B-Rep simplifier" module with the annual fee of $3,000. This purchase will include first year subscription till November 14, 2024. The next renewal invoice (due by June 30, 2024) will include $15,000 for the plan "Pro" and $1,865 for the "B-Rep simplifier" (=227/365 * $3,000, where 227 is the number of days between November 14, 2024 and June 30, 2025). The total will be $16,865. The common renewal date becomes July 1.

Example (Perpetual license): On July 1, 2023 you made your first purchase of the plan "Pro" with the new license fee of $24,000 (and maintenance fee of $12,000). On November 15, 2023 you buy the "B-Rep simplifier" module with the new license fee of $4,800 (and maintenance fee of $2,400). This purchase will include first year maintenance till November 14, 2024. The next renewal invoice (due by June 30, 2024) will include $12,000 for the plan "Pro" and $1,492 for the "B-Rep simplifier" (=227/365 * $2,400, where 227 is the number of days between November 14, 2024 and June 30, 2025). The total will be $13,492. The common renewal date becomes July 1.

If you have pre-paid for several years in advance (either multi-year subscription or maintenance) then your new purchase must include the number of days to align with that renewal date defined by your first purchase.

Example (Perpetual license): On July 1, 2023 you made your first purchase of the plan "Pro" and prepaid for two extra years of maintenance (i.e. till June 30, 2026). On November 15, 2023 you buy the "B-Rep simplifier" module. When doing that you will need to purchase the maintenance to align to June 30, 2026.

Subscription is a traditional time-restricted license. So your license will expire and you will no longer be able to develop with CAD Exchanger SDK, and the binaries will stop working.

Your access to your customer corner and other online resources (such as Knowledge base, FAQ, forum) and our support team will be limited or switched off.

Should you decide to resume your subscription you will need to pay a then current fee.

You have 30 days grace period after the due renewal date. If you let your maintenance lapse then you will no longer be eligible to receive new releases of CAD Exchanger.

Your access to your customer corner and other online resources (such as Knowledge base, FAQ, forum) and our support team may be limited or switched off.

You will still be able to rebuild your application with CAD Exchanger SDK (using any version you received during maintenance). Your application will still continue to run and thus your end-users will not be affected.

Although you may still submit a bug report, it will likely be registered with a lower priority, and you won't be able to benefit from the fix anyway (unless you resume your maintenance).

Renewing your maintenance is more cost-effective from financial standpoint and more secure from a business continuity standpoint. Should your end-users report some particular issue (a CAD file in a recent file format version, new OS, a specific bug) and you don't have active maintenance, you won't be able to take advantage of the enhancement in CAD Exchanger unless you resume your maintenance.

Should you decide to resume your maintenance you will need to pay a welcome-back fee, which is 90% of a then current new license fee.

Both subscription and maintenance grant you access to all new CAD Exchanger versions released during their active period.

Every new release contains multiple enhancements including:

• new features (geometry types, PMI, product configurations, meta-data, etc)
• new formats (e.g. Revit, Navisworks, etc)
• new versions of supported formats (e.g. IFC4.3, SOLIDWORKS 2023, CATIA V5 R32)
• upgrades to third-party platforms CAD Exchanger SDK integrates with (Unity, Parasolid, Open CASCADE, etc)
• new OS and platforms versions (e.g. BigSur on macOS, M1 processor, etc)
• compilers and programming languages (Visual Studio 2022, Python, etc) as well as numerous bug fixes

New versions of CAD Exchanger SDK are released 4-8 times a year (refer to our blog), so you will soon be missing out on a lot of of new features, improvements, and bug corrections. Thus, you will be assuming high risks of a peculiar bug to be reported by your end-users or their feature requests, which will be already resolved in a more recent version of CAD Exchanger than you have.

Should you decide to resume your maintenance, you will have to pay a higher re-joining ('welcome-back') fee, which is 90% of the new license fee. A more prudent approach from a business and financial standpoint is to maintain active maintenance.

Yes, you may. The fees will differ whether you have Perpetual or Subscription license. Please contact us for a detailed quote.

A notification should be sent at least 30 days before a planned upgrade date.

Yes, you may (although that's hardly reasonable and is not cost-effective). This may only be done at the renewal date; the currently active maintenance or subscription period will remain under a currently active plan. Your current renewal date will remain unchanged.

For Perpetual license, you may do so at the upcoming renewal date. You will just pay the maintenance fee for the lower plan. Note, however, that if you decide to upgrade back, you will be charged a welcome back fee for your previous higher plan. So we don't see this a prudent strategy.

For Subscription, you may select any plan you like at the renewal date. So you may downgrade or upgrade by paying respective plan fee.

Yes, you may. We can use a prorated remainder of your current subscription period as a credit against the new license fee. The renewal date becomes one of your switch.

Please notify us at least 30 days before the planned switch.

Although you may, we don't see where this strategy would make financial or business sense.

You may switch at the renewal date. Your current renewal date will remain unchanged.

We accept such requests for first time purchases, for "Pro" or higher plans (or equivalent "A-la carte" orders), for the first year only.

The quarterly installment is 3/10 of the annual price what results in 20% extra fee for entire year. So make sure you find a proper balance between your cashflow and expenses.

Your license will be time-limited corresponding to a prepaid period. So if you need a a redistributable perpetual license, you must first pay for it in full.

You have 30 days of a grace period after your due renewal date (defined by your initial purchase) to renew your maintenance. If you don't do that, your maintenance expires, and you will no longer be eligible for new versions of CAD Exchanger.

Should you decide to resume your maintenance, you will have to pay a 'welcome-back' fee, which is 90% of the new license fee. A more prudent approach from a business and financial standpoint is to maintain active maintenance.

First off, you are not obliged to switch to this licensing model. You are free to stay with your current one, and your license agreement already determines how renewal happens.

If you are not behind on your payment schedule, we can reuse your license fees paid in the last 12 months (prorated to the expiration date) as a credit against either a Subscription or a new Perpetual license fee.

If you are behind on your payment schedule, you will first need to pay all outstanding debt (including late payment fees as defined in your agreement). After that you can switch to this licensing model, as described above.

If your credit exceeds the fees payable under this model, that unused credit will expire. To prevent that, you may decide to prepay for three years or extra components. Note that you will take advantage of significant saving over time in the future maintenance periods anyway.

Support plans make you eligible for consulting and assistance, allow you to get faster responses and resolutions on your bug reports, and receive interim engineering builds ahead of public releases. Support plans are very recommended during your first license term when you integrate CAD Exchanger SDK into your application and may need suggestions on best practices and deeper explanations on used features. Support plans are also important for customers who may have strict commitments to their own end-users.

Refer to the comparison table or contact our sales team to select the plan that might best suit your needs.

You will need to appoint a project administrator who will be granted access to a customer portal, where relevant resources reside: license keys, latest releases, etc. He or she will be able to add individual developers after that.

Upon expiration of your maintenance or subscription, your access may be restricted.

To place your order, please go to the online calculator and complete the process. At the last step, press the [Place order] button. To complete the order, fill out the short online form, data from which will be incorporated into the license agreement.

The license is per one customer's application, so it must be described in sufficient details to identify it unambiguously. Examples of descriptions are provided in the form's tooltips.

Your order will be reviewed and approved on our side. Your order may be declined if you don't provide transparent details on your intended usage and application. We provide complex software technologies and want to make sure they are properly used by our clients. All the data are covered by the confidentiality clause in the license agreement.

Once your order has been approved, you will receive a link to execute the license agreement that must be e-signed by an authorized company representative.

We need an IP (Intellectual Property) owner, i.e. your client, to enter the agreement as there are legally binding obligations. Your client will provide you with a temporary license for the project's term, and you must remove CAD Exchanger SDK after that.

With selected trusted system integrators we may have special partner agreements. Contact us for details.

CAD Exchanger is standardized (not customized) software that includes both our pricing and licensing terms, which come combined. One may not work without the other.

We reserve a privilege for clients that order a higher license plan (Enterprise and Ultimate) to slightly amend a license agreement to accommodate reasonable corporate requests (such as payment terms, specific assignment needs, or appointing subcontractors, etc), but we will respectfully decline anything else.

We understand that big corporations need to introduce policies and guidelines. To try to accommodate your business processes, we may invest some reasonable time to check your terms. Sometimes we may even accept them, if they are very reasonable and rather refer to business practices and code of conduct.

We will however not accept any specific terms that override our standard terms that apply to the software license or services. Such examples may include requirements to provide 24/7 support or on-site training, to include the source code or documentation in your native language, to grant a perpetual license (when you buy a subscription), to provide financial guarantees or to apply your country's legislation.

CAD Exchanger is standardized (not customized) software that includes both our pricing and licensing terms, which come combined. One may not work without the other.

We reserve a privilege for clients that order a higher license plan (Enterprise or Ultimate) to slightly amend a license agreement to accommodate reasonable corporate requests (such as payment terms, specific assignment needs, or appointing subcontractors, etc), but we will respectfully decline anything else.