From a press release by Autodesk today about Autodesk Inventor.
Autodesk Inventor PLE will be available from Authorized Autodesk Resellers beginning October 2006. To find your local Authorized Autodesk Reseller please visit www.autodesk.com/resellers
Engineering professionals and students will be granted a license for 180 days to use the software and sharpen their skills on personal projects before the license times out. During that time, users will have access to all functionality in the core Autodesk Inventor product that ships with Autodesk® Inventor(TM) Series software. Included free of charge on the Inventor PLE DVD, is the Autodesk Official Training Courseware title Introduction to 3D Design, which usually sells for US$47.99. Please note that Inventor PLE users will not have access to specialized Autodesk® Inventor(TM) Professional functionality, or the Autodesk® Vault or AutoCAD® Mechanical software applications.
Update 11-03-06: This is currently only available for the US.
I find that this is a really good idea. We are currently in the process of checking out options for CAD in the future (curreltly use MDT6), and the 30 day test versions are simply not enough to get a good feel for the programs. The down side is that we are situated in Denmark, and therefore the PLE is not available to us (our VAR didn’t even know about it). Why is this the case, and are there any plans to let the rest of the world in on this?
Strange they dont have any test centers iin EU, How user can be certified by Autodesk Inventor???? I am Denmark but dont want to go to USA or Canada.
I would suggest contacting a local reseller or Autodesk Training Center in Denmark. Ask about the possibility of them becoming a certification site or a solution.
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=1088201
Regards,
Shaan