Autodesk Makes It's Design Software Free to Schools Worldwide

[Tech_Dreamer]

Awesome News is Awesome...

 

 

Autodesk today announced it’s making its suite of of apps free for students and teachers worldwide.

 

 

"The way we make things is changing rapidly, and we need a workforce ready to design for new manufacturing and construction techniques. By providing free professional design tools to students, faculty members and academic institutions around the world, we’re helping get industry ready for the next phase"

 

According to Autodesk, the new access should allow more than 680 million people from over 800,000 schools and 188 countries have access to the software at no cost.

 

As of today the design-minded outfit is offering its wares, AutoCAD and Fusion 360, for education use worldwide.

 

 

This is the follow up to the announcement of free software for academic institutions in the United States earlier this year as part of President Obama’s ConnectED initiative, Autodesk has gradually expanded free access to its leading design software to academic institutions across Asia Pacific and Europe.

 

 

 

the access is meant for educational purposes only no commercial usage allowed.

 

Autodesk is the leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software , Now it's also helping schools move to the cloud by providing academic institutions with its full suite of next generation cloud-based design products, cloud services such as the A360 collaboration platform, as well as maintenance subscription for free.

 

 

We are Closing the digital gap in education starts by providing European schools with common access to the same advanced technology being used by industry professionals today

 

To access the free software you need to request free educational access to Autodesk through their site :

http://www.autodesk.com/education.

News Link:

http://www.engadget.com/2014/12/01/autodesk-software-free-education/

 

 

Pretty swell news since the company decided to now open up the software up for worldwide acees for free, Post Your thoughts on this down beloooooooooooww

[Pugs501]

[ZetZet]

My university already gave me 3 year license. I don't know if they had to pay for it.

[WelshDdraig]

I got a free 3 year licence thanks to my student discount card. Gives me great offers and this was included. Not bad for <£20

[Jaybird]

Old news. They have been doing this for years.

Picked up cad free 4 years ago.

[Real_PhillBert]

Old news. They have been doing this for years.

Picked up cad free 4 years ago.

Yeah no doubt. I have had Inventor on my PC for years now just because it was free when I was in college.

[DelusionalSyko]

Old news. They have been doing this for years.

Picked up cad free 4 years ago.

 

It might have been select schools and colleges before. Now it looks like everyone is getting it.

[Real_PhillBert]

It might have been select schools and colleges before. Now it looks like everyone is getting it.

When I got it, all you needed was a .edu email address. 

[LAwLz]

They are doing this purely out of selfishness.

Get the students hooked on your software and then they have to buy it once they want to use it for commercial purposes.

 

A good deed done for selfish reasons is still nice though. It would have been far nicer if they had done like Microsoft and allowed small companies to use it for free for commercial purposes as well, but maybe that's asking too much.

[totjup5]

It's been free for students for years already. When I took my first year of engineering class in high school 4 years back all of the auto desk software we used was available for me to get for free on my home machine.

[DelusionalSyko]

So...they're just advertising something that they've been doing for years?

[MoonSpot]

They are doing this purely out of selfishness.

Get the students hooked on your software and then they have to buy it once they want to use it for commercial purposes.

 

A good deed done for selfish reasons is still nice though. It would have been far nicer if they had done like Microsoft and allowed small companies to use it for free for commercial purposes as well, but maybe that's asking too much.

Yup. But they're hardly alone in this, it is a tactic that smarter businesses employ.

Caterpillar does the same thing with community colleges and supplies more equipment then their competitors do for industrial and diesel mechanic students to learn and study from.

When its all anyone has experience with it becomes the defacto best thing ever available for everyone in the whole world regardless of the application.

[RexinOridle]

I got mine free, thanks to some hacker on torrent.

[rockking1379]

this is not news at all. i have been able to get student licenses to their software suite since i was a freshman in high school and i am now a junior in college. nothing new here

[Beskamir]

I already have access to Autodesk stuff thanks to having taken design. Personally I rather Blender since it's open source and will always be free.

[Logan2012]

You all do realize this is old new. Autodesk has allowed students to have any of there software for free for years now. You don't even have to be a student to make an account. I've been using the student account method for years to get the latest version of 3DS Max to make mods for GTA SA.

[witting]

Siemens also doed that with their solid edge software, you have to renew it once a year but still. It does alsp have the whole academic usage only bla bla bla.

[PortentousLad]

They hadn't already? I know I got 3d max as a student hear in Germany and normally Germany is last to adopt just about anything.

[That Norwegian Guy]

Not Maya?

[armandoafros]

thanks for the link i enjoy inventor and now i can play around with it on my personal computer 

[Levent]

afair every software from autodesk is free for students with .edu email.

[MeltingPoint]

Great! Now my university shouldn't pirate it anymore.

[Octagoncow]

I really hope I can grab this before I graduate in a few days. I'd love to have a copy of this just to screw around.

[Levent]

I really hope I can grab this before I graduate in a few days. I'd love to have a copy of this just to screw around.

they provide keys instantly so no worries

[Recon97]

I can easily pirate it.