It doesn't matter if an ex-employee changes their Autodesk account email. Your Fusion Hub owns the data it created, so it's secure once you remove its access.
A common concern for administrators is what happens to company data if a former employee changes the email address on their personal Autodesk account after leaving.
The short answer is: The data they created within your company's Fusion Team Hub remains completely secure and unaffected. Changing their personal account details does not give them continued access, nor does it remove or alter the data they contributed.
Understanding the Separation: The Account vs. The Data
To understand why your data is safe, it's crucial to distinguish between an individual's Autodesk Account and the company's Team Hub data.
1. The Autodesk Account: A Personal Key
Think of an Autodesk Account as a personal key. It belongs to the individual user, not the company, even if they use their company email address (
employee@company.com) to create it. That individual has full control over their account and can change the associated email address to a personal one (employee@gmail.com) at any time through their Autodesk profile settings.This action is outside of your company's control. The employee is simply changing the label on their personal key.
2. The Team Hub: A Company Vault
Think of your company's Fusion Team Hub as a secure company vault. When an employee is invited to the hub, you are granting their specific key (e.g.,
employee@company.com) access to the vault.While they are working, any designs, drawings, or files they create inside a project within your hub are immediately owned by the hub itself. The employee is the author, but the hub is the owner. The version history will forever record that "John Doe" created or modified a file, providing a clear audit trail, but the file asset belongs to the company's vault.
What Happens When the Employee Leaves?
When the employee's tenure ends, the administrator's process is simple and secure:
- You Remove Their Access: As outlined in the previous article, the administrator removes the user (
employee@company.com) from the Team Hub. This action is the critical step. You are deactivating their key from your vault's lock. - The Data Remains: All the files, projects, and version histories created by that user remain unchanged and fully accessible to the rest of the team.
- The Employee Changes Their Email: At this point, it is irrelevant what the former employee does with their personal Autodesk account. Whether they keep their old work email associated with it or change it to a new personal address, their "key" has already been barred from accessing your company's "vault." Your hub's security is not tied to their account's email address; it's tied to you having removed their user profile from your hub's list of authorized members.
Conclusion
The separation between a user's personal Autodesk account and the Team Hub's data ownership is a fundamental security feature. An employee changing their account email after leaving has no impact on your company's data.
Your responsibility as an administrator is to follow the proper offboarding procedure: promptly remove the former employee's user profile from the Team Hub. This single action ensures your company's intellectual property remains secure.