That said, if one is not a student, one should not be using a student account. It is useful though to have HSM in a local environment only regarding concerns such as ITAR requirements or cloud storage concerns (plenty of people still use this as a reason they will never use Fusion). Whether it works or not is probably up for debate. The point of the suite is to allow flexibility and choice between products, and of course encourage adoption of Autodesk's platforms while allowing users to stay on SolidWorks for the time being. Not having to think about this is why I shouldn't have deleted my student account and bought Fusion. Tell me why you think the Solidworks plugin that does the same thing is worth $2500.

I paid $279 for Fusion 360, and it includes HSM baked into it. Usual justification is how much each one of the applications would cost on its own, but that argument only works if I want any of the others, and if it were even possible to buy any of them on their own - which it isn't, which is my whole complaint!

Fusion 360 student version