Product Access and Subscriptions

Providing project members the ability to use a product on your project involves two parts: (1) product access and (2) subscription assignment or trial. These are two distinct product workflows, which means inviting a member to a project doesn't provide them with a subscription.

Project administrators can invite members to use specific products on their project. This covers the product access part. However, even if a member is invited to use a product, they won't be able to use it if they don't have a subscription or an active trial. For example, if a project administrator invites a member to use Forma Design Collaboration, but the member doesn't have a subscription to Forma Design Collaboration, the member will be prompted to start a trial or purchase a subscription before they can start using Forma Design Collaboration. The member could also be provided a subscription by a hub administrator.

As another example, if a project administrator invites a member to use Build, Data Management, and Model Coordination and the member has a subscription to Forma Build and has started a trial of Forma Design Collaboration, the member can start using each product right away. If the trial of Forma Design Collaboration expires, they wouldn't be able to use Model Coordination until they purchased a subscription or were assigned a subscription by a hub administrator.

See the About Autodesk Forma™ topic to learn more about what products are available with each subscription offering.

As mentioned in the examples above, subscriptions can be assigned by a hub administrator in the Hub Admin service or they can be purchased by the invited member. When members provide their own subscription access, this is referred to as Bring Your Own Subscription.