Free Softwares for students from Autodesk. Legal download

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Here is a list of around 25 free softwares for students from Autodesk. They can be downloaded directly from the manufactures website.

Registration is free!
All you need is a valid, school-issued email address or an invitation from a faculty member.

Autodesk Inventor

Autodesk® Inventor TM software provides a comprehensive and integrated set of tools for learning 3D mechanical design; including dynamic simulation, stress analysis, and design visualization.

Autodesk AliasStudio

The Autodesk® AliasStudio™ product line provides a comprehensive set of tools for conceptual design and design realization. AliasStudio provides industry-leading surface description capabilities supported by best-in-class sketching and visualization tools that help students capture and communicate design intent.

AutoCAD Electrical

AutoCAD® Electrical software is purpose-built to create and modify electrical controls systems, AutoCAD Electrical delivers the tools needed to design electrical controls faster and more accurately than ever before.

Autodesk Showcase Professional

Autodesk® Showcase Professional software creates accurate, highly realistic representations from 3D CAD data, enabling informed decision making on digital prototypes.

Autodesk SketchBook Pro

Free your creativity with Autodesk® SketchBook® Pro software. A paint and drawing application designed specifically for use with digitized pen tablets and tablet PCs, SketchBook Pro offers a streamlined user interface that is fast and intuitive.

AutoCAD Architecture

AutoCAD® Architecture software is better for architects. Efficient creation of construction documents is enhanced through easy-to-use features for architectural drafting and design.

Did you know that Revit Architecture software mirrors the real world of architecture and enables you to realize your ideas in 3D?

AutoCAD Civil 3D

AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software is a comprehensive application that enables civil engineering students to better understand engineering design and analysis while quickly communicating design intent.

Civil 3D Updates

Country Kits and Extensions
Civil 3D Country Kits
Survey Link Extensions for Civil 3D
Storm Water Design and Analysis Extensions

AutoCAD Map 3D

The leading engineering GIS platform for creating and managing spatial data.

AutoCAD Mechanical

AutoCAD® Mechanical software is AutoCAD® for manufacturing—purpose-built to accelerate the mechanical design process while preserving the AutoCAD user experience.

AutoCAD MEP

AutoCAD MEP® is the version of AutoCAD® software for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) designers. Creating and sharing construction documents is made much more efficient with intuitive system drawing and design tools that, together with the built-in design calculators, help increase accuracy and accelerate design.

AutoCAD Raster Design

Unlock the value of scanned drawings and maps, aerial photos, satellite imagery, and digital elevation models using Autodesk® Raster Design.

Autodesk 3ds Max

30-day Free Trial Version Only
Bring 3D film effects to the big screen. Generate realistic characters for a top-selling game. Create rich and complex design visualization. Autodesk® 3ds Max® 9 3D animation, rendering and modeling software lets game developers, design visualization professionals, and visual effects artists maximize their productivity and tackle challenging animation projects.

Autodesk Impression

Create compelling, presentation-ready graphics straight from CAD drawings with Autodesk® Impression.

Autodesk Maya

30-day Free Trial Version Only
Autodesk Maya is used by film and video artists, game developers, design visualization professionals, and students to create engaging, lifelike digital images, realistic animation, and extraordinary visual effects.

Autodesk MotionBuilder

The foremost productivity suite for 3D character animation, with real-time tools that let you take on the most demanding, high-volume animation projects.

Autodesk Mudbox

30-day Free Trial Version Only
Autodesk® Mudbox® has a highly intuitive user interface that empowers artists, modelers, and students to quickly create highly detailed organic and inorganic assets that can easily be used with popular 3D animation software such Maya and 3ds Max. Designed by veteran industry professionals, Autodesk Mudbox is a premier digital sculpting application for today’s film, games, television, and design projects.

Autodesk Navisworks Manage

Deepen your understanding of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and experience your entire project, from design, engineering, planning, and project management to construction by using Autodesk Navisworks Manage software.

Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis Professional

With Autodesk® Robot™ Structural Analysis Professional, engineering students can do more analysis and design with building information modeling (BIM). Students can calculate complex structures and analyze many different types of structures such as buildings, bridges, and civil and specialty structures.

Autodesk VIZ

Create 3D visualizations of your design with flexible modeling tools and the ability to easily import data from leading design applications.

Please note that some materials and content from earlier versions of Autodesk® VIZ software are not included in the Autodesk® VIZ 2008 software download. They can be downloaded at no additional cost from http://www.autodesk.com/viz2008-contentpack

Green Building Studio

The Autodesk® Green Building Studio web-based service can help aspiring architects and designers to perform whole building energy, water and carbon analysis, optimize efficiency, and understand how to work toward carbon neutrality earlier in the design process.

Revit Architecture

With Revit® Architecture building information modeling (BIM) software, students master design, better communicate design intent, and explore analysis while building skills for a sustainable future.

Revit MEP

Revit® MEP is an intuitive design tool that helps you think like an engineer. Minimize coordination errors between mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) engineering teams using building information modeling (BIM) workflows.

Revit Structure

With Revit® Structure building information modeling (BIM) software, students explore structural modeling and design while learning sophisticated analysis techniques, helping prepare them for careers in structural engineering.

So there you go...

[theman]

looks great. nice list too. thank you.

[kyjongl]

great list. awesome.

[Alexvader2]

Man,

I find the initiative of freeing proprietary software to University students very interesting...

Anyway... I have something to say about this:

One of my former teachers, who is involved in a University project called "Shell EcoMarathon" told me about a very INTERESTING matter:

He aquired the student version of an Autodesk product, Inventor 2008, and used one feature called "Design accelerator".

It is a sort of "mechanical engineer's calculator with graphical 3D output"...

depending on specific input parameters, like Young Modulus, maximum deflections, allowable stresses, contact angles, imposed loads, etc, it will perform calculations of springs,belt transmitions, gears, shafts, beams, bolts etc.

...anyway, he used this .... crap to design a shaft to dynamic loading ( static compression and torsion coupled with alternate bending )... the solution is tractable with a sheet of paper and a pencil, or , if you want to quickly test the response to some parameters, a spreadsheet, like gnumeric... The solution using Soderberg's design criterium, or Goodman's... ( there are several ...) can be found in any textbook of mechanical design...

Shigley, Norton... whatever.

So... he crosschecked the analytical "open Source" (direct formula application) solution against Autodesk Crappy Design Accelerator....

AUTODESK DESIGN ACCELERATOR overestimated the required diameter of the shaft by 4mm in 1.7 cm... this is simply a relative error of 0.235294118, about 24%, now, hows that for precision Heh...!!??

This is why I compare Operating Systems, and Calculation Codes to Political Systems... :

Some are free... ( OpenSource Tools/Democracies ) and some don't (Closed Source proprietary applications and Operating Systems / Dictatorships ) and you can't EVER discuss a solution that you cannot check how it was obtained ( You do not know the shape functions of your FEA code, because it is closed source code ) the same way you DO NOT DISCUSS policies with a Dictator.

You either trust him ( our your FEA code or OS ) and are lucky because he is rather intelligent ( Abaqus or MAC OS X ) Like Emperor Meiji, Mutsuhito of 19th Century in Japan, or you are totally screwed, and f**ked up because he is a complete asshole, but an asshole in command ( Autodesk Inventor or windows ) like Robert Mugabe...

Else You can go for a democracy ... (Open Source FEA code, or OS ) and always be able to see what the representatives that you elect ( your code/ OS ) are doing to solve your problem, instead of blindly trusting them...

If you are unsatisfied, you can always make yourelf be heard ( change some lines of code, program a new app, create a new interpolation scheme for a CFD code ... etc ) either by voting, or in a court of Law.

ALWAYS BEWARE OF PROPRIETARY CLOSED CODE CALCULATION CODES/ENGINEERING APPS, CHECK, DOUBLE CHECK, AND TRIPLE CHECK...

Imagine that Robert Oppeheimer had some Autodesk tool to analyse neutron tansport in a prompt criticality event, that would underestimate fission cross sections at thermal neutron energy bands by just a few percent...... man... Japan would have won WW2, and some places in New Mexico would still be uninhabitable today...

Imagine that Wilbur and Orville Wright had and Autodesk product... :-D

They would be designing a Mig 25, just to find out that it couldn't even take off...

I am joking here, :-D but you get the general idea...

Best regards

Alex