Hello. I am an assistant professor and have an education license. I am using sketchup pro but I sent a message to support and they sent me a link and suggested that I post here. I think I only have one seat for the license. I am working on a project and I am wanting to get some help from my father, who lives in KY. I work in FL so I can’t just work locally on one computer. He is retired so he does not have any active educational credentials for him to buy his own seat. He doesn’t really need the pro features very often, so we don’t want to buy a full price license. But I am using a few plugins and features that he isn’t able to follow along with on the web version, and it would be helpful to have the same setup so I can walk him through some steps. Is it possible for me to buy another seat on my license? Or I’m happy to buy another license under my education credentials. Are either of these options possible? When I go to the “My Products” page I see my license is active, with Seats available/total 0/1, but I don’t see any options to add a new license or seat. Thanks so much for the help!
Thanks for looking! I tried searching the forums so I hope this hasn’t been answered already. The nearest I found was for commercial licenses, I’ll keep an eye out for colin’s response. Appreciate the help.
I will try to get some of the people in the education and license teams to give an opinion.
I can’t find proof of this, but it used to be that a Pro Classic license user could not use models created by a Make user. You can imagine that a company of 10 people could have one person with the Pro license, to do Pro things, and 9 people using Make to model for free. I’m sure that was not allowed.
If you check for whether a Pro subscription user can collaborate with a Free user, the results suggest they can, but the examples given are where a Pro user gives something to the Free user, and the Free user can use the model within the limitations of a Free subscription. The problem is when Free users are providing models to a Pro user, who then goes on to earn the whole team some money. That would break the terms for the Free subscription.
But, you have an EDU subscription. That is already “not for commercial use”. A Free user giving you models to include in your scenes, where you’re not then going to go on to earn money, might be ok.
My suspicion about whether a second seat on your existing subscription can be used by a non-EDU user, or they use a second EDU subscription bought by you, won’t work out. You’re not allowed to let someone else use the subscriptions you have bought, and the second subscription would have to belong to someone with an EDU email address.
So, you could have your father work with the Free web version, and send you models, or your father could go back to school, and get his own EDU subscription!
If my colleagues do give opinions, believe what they say if it’s different to what I’ve said.
Devil’s advocate: There is absolutely NO way to know if the item you download from the 3D Warehouse was made in Pro, Make, Free (online) or Shop? So if it was made in Free or Make, you have no idea, and you use it in your commercial project?