The free Autodesk academic program is detailed on the web page: www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/all
MME is no longer offering a license server for Autodesk products.
- Brief summary:
- Free academic teaching and research use of most Autodesk software products. Software may be installed on both WSU and personally owned computers.
- Listed below are a few of the over 80 products available, see web site for complete list:
- Inventor Professional - 3D mechanical CA and, visualization
- Simulation Mechanical - Mechanical simulation tools
- Nastran - FEA solver
- Nastran In-CAD - CAD-embedded FEA simulation using Nastran
- Simulation CFD - Fluid flow and thermal simulation tools
- ForceEffect Motion - functional moving mechanical systems
- Maya - tools for 3D modeling, animation, effects, and rendering
- Inventor HSM - CAM and 3D CAD in one integrated solution
- Most software requires Windows 7, 8.1 or 10 64bit. Autodesk recommends that PC should have at least 8 Gigabytes of RAM, most programs will work with less. Graphics card should support OpenGL. A few of the programs are for Apple Macintosh computers and a few are APPs for mobile devices.
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