Add-ins

[rylander]

We have "Autodesk Building Design Suite Ultimate 2017" and the faculty
are telling me that "Stress Analysis" and "Dynamic Simulation" add ins
are not available although in "Add in Manager" it shows
"Automatic/Loaded" for Stress Analysis. Any help would be greatly
appreciated. I have included screen shots.  Thank you

[mdavis22569]

you might want to jump over to the Bims' forum ... 

unless one of the resellers show up,

make sure you have all of the updates installed ..and a restart of the pc

[DarrenP · Accepted solution]

yea thats the case Building Ultimate only comes with base inventor

if you need the stress analysis you need to purchase Inventor Professional which is a separate product

[rylander]

Darren,

Could you tell me is it available in building ultimate 2016? Faculty were telling me they used it last year.

Thank you,

David M Rylander
Information Technology Technician
University Technology Services/Computing Systems
California University of PA
250 University Avenue
California, PA 15419
rylander@calu.edu
724-938-4333
[Integrity. Civility. Responsibility.]

[DarrenP]

it was never available in Building Ultimate in any version

the only way to get Inventor Pro at the time was to get Product Design Ultimate or Factory Ultimate or you just bought Inventor Professional 2016 by itself

[I_Forge_KC]

As a university, you have access to almost the entire portfolio from Autodesk (free).

If you have to, just install Inventor Professional as a standalone install. I suspect that is what happened to you in the past as the Inventor bundled with that suite was just the base version and not Pro.

[Mark.Lancaster]

One thing that I wanted to add to @I_Forge_KC information....

It sounds like this is faculty department maintaining campus grounds so they are not allowed to use free educational software... So like @DarrenP has indicated you must purchase the software...

So @I_Forge_KC I have to take back the kudos I gave you..    Just kidding..

[TheCADWhisperer]

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@Mark.Lancaster wrote:

....It sounds like this is faculty department maintaining campus grounds so they are not allowed to use free educational software... ....

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Students, faculty and schools (instructional labs) get Autodesk Inventor Professional for free.

I do not see anything in the problem description that indicates this is for the "school grounds", physical plant or whatever commercial type use .....

[I_Forge_KC]

Yeah, an IT department maintaining campus computers are entitled to it 😉

[Darin.Green]

That is NOT correct... Any use of the Autodesk products within an Educational institution that doesn't involve learning (Students & Teachers), are NOT permitted to use the free education licensed software.

Here's the difference between the two:

Facilities Management: Includes any type of modeling of facility buildings, equipment, or other task outside of exclusive learning.

Educational Learning: Exactly what the words say, for students and teachers for learning the CAD software.

If any institution is caught using the educational software in this manner will most likely be audited which will cost you!

[Mark.Lancaster]

@I_Forge_KC and @TheCADWhisperer

It boils down what I viewed the term faculty as..  Granted @TheCADWhisperer is correct that it doesn't indicate this means the campus facility maintenance department but we need to be careful in what we say regarding free educational license.  Just because its a school, campus, or university, it doesn't mean that are entitled to use the free software for everything..  Users come here looking for guidance and we don;t want to send the wrong message especially when it comes to the free educational software.

So we both have our input and both are correct..   You may assume one thing from this posting and I assumed something else.   But without @rylander clarification we can only speculate what they mean.

[I_Forge_KC]

Call me a stickler, but in collegiate vernacular there is a huge difference between faculty and staff. Staff would be grounds maintenance versus faculty are instructional. Where I instruct this is a huge difference in many ways. My assumption comes from the use of the word faculty and not staff.

[Darin.Green]

@DarrenP is correct, Inventor Professional was never apart of Building Design Suite, however, Inventor NON-Pro is... That being said, it depends on the needs of the software. As an educational institution, for student learning you can download Product Design Suite Ultimate for using Inventor Pro. For Facilities Management, you'll need to purchase or upgrade your contract which you'll only get Inventor if you still have Building Design Suite. Otherwise, just Product Design Suite Ultimate would be your best bet.

[Darin.Green]

@rylander sorry this conversation spiraled way out of control here, and the reason for that is due to you mentioning the following RED BOLD below

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@rylander wrote:

We have "Autodesk Building Design Suite Ultimate 2017" and the faculty
are telling me that 

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Some of us work in the partner channel, and when the term Faculty spring up we need to clarify (Teachers or Facilities team) keeping up with campus grounds.

By now, you should understand what the differences are for sure, but wanted to apologize for the sharp turn of the conversation.

Please let us know if you original question was answered by posting a response or accepting the solution from the post that help'd you.

[rylander]

I see that I have access to "Autodesk Building Design Suite Premium English 2017 Win 64" and/or "Autodesk Building Design Suite Ultimate English 2017 Win 64", does the premium include the stress analysis? Also, this is for labs where a faculty instructs students and not for grounds crew or whatever like someone stated in another thread. At our university faculty means instructor and "STAFF" would be grounds crew .

Thank you,

David M Rylander
Information Technology Technician
University Technology Services/Computing Systems
California University of PA
250 University Avenue
California, PA 15419
rylander@calu.edu
724-938-4333
[Integrity. Civility. Responsibility.]

[Darin.Green]

No, you need Product Design Suite Ultimate or just Inventor Professional

[rylander]

Darin,

I do not see inventor pro available through my login, is there any way I can access the inventor which includes the add-in stress analysis and will still work with our server license?

Thank you,

David M Rylander
Information Technology Technician
University Technology Services/Computing Systems
California University of PA
250 University Avenue
California, PA 15419
rylander@calu.edu
724-938-4333
[Integrity. Civility. Responsibility.]

[DarrenP]

are these the free education licenses or licenses the school actually bought

if its the free edu licenses you need to go to the edu community and request the licenses you need

if its licenses you bought you will need to buy the licenses you need

[Darin.Green]

This issue was resolved by generating the serial number information for Product Design Suite Ultimate from the education community. After generating the license and configuring the server, we converted their current version of Inventor to Inventor Professional. Software is now configured on the student machines and running as expected.