Answers.Body: <p>The sign-in is to enable cloud saves, build with friends, wanted list export, upload to the Studio Gallery, shopping integration features like price lookup, and probably some other features I haven't thought of or have not been mentioned in the comments yet. If you don't plan on using any of those features then it isn't required to sign-in.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: When you say price lookup, do you mean that Stud.io can act as a hub for BrickLink or that you can just see prices? Anyway thanks for the help!
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Answers.Text: @pkbpack18 It means it can show you average item prizes (based on BrickLink). Together with that there's also other BrickLink integration, like exporting the model into a wanted list. If you have a BrickLink account and intend your model to exist in reality at some point in the future, those features are quite helpful.
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Answers.Text: @ChristianRau Thanks!
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Answers.Text: Went ahead and updated my answer to clarify the feature list by adding a couple of things (Completely forgot about Wanted List export!) and leaving it a bit open ended.
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Body: <p>I recently installed Stud.io 2.0 on my MacBook. Is it absolutely necessary to sign in, or is that just so that you can save to the cloud and build with friends?</p>
  
Tags: <software><bricklink><bricklink-studio>
Title: Do I really need to sign into Stud.io?
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ThreadText: # Do I really need to sign into Stud.io?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2020-09-02)
  
  I recently installed Stud.io 2.0 on my MacBook. Is it absolutely necessary to sign in, or is that just so that you can save to the cloud and build with friends?
  
  **Tags:** software, bricklink, bricklink-studio
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2020-09-02. Score: 11 | Accepted answer
  
  The sign-in is to enable cloud saves, build with friends, wanted list export, upload to the Studio Gallery, shopping integration features like price lookup, and probably some other features I haven't thought of or have not been mentioned in the comments yet. If you don't plan on using any of those features then it isn't required to sign-in.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: When you say price lookup, do you mean that Stud.io can act as a hub for BrickLink or that you can just see prices? Anyway thanks for the help!  
  > **username_2**: @username_0 It means it can show you average item prizes (based on BrickLink). Together with that there's also other BrickLink integration, like exporting the model into a wanted list. If you have a BrickLink account and intend your model to exist in reality at some point in the future, those features are quite helpful.  
  > **username_0**: @ChristianRau Thanks!  
  > **username_1**: Went ahead and updated my answer to clarify the feature list by adding a couple of things (Completely forgot about Wanted List export!) and leaving it a bit open ended.  
  
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