BIM 360 Design student license

[paul.b.gotthardt]

Hello!
My fellow students and I wonder if it would be possible to get a student license for BIM 360 Design. This semester we are working on a team project where we will really need the collaboration and worksharing with Revit.

Kind regards,
Paul

[markus_briglmeir · Accepted solution]

Hi Paul, 

I am sorry to say that we currently don't have a general student license for Revit Cloud Worksharing. This might change in the future, but there is no timeline yet to my knowledge. Currently we have some universities with an agreement with Autodesk to offer Revit Cloud Worksharing for their students, so you might want to check with your institution. 

Again, sorry to have no better news for you, best regards, 

Markus

[anil_mistry]

Hi @paul.b.gotthardt,

I'm just checking in to see if you need more help with this. Did the suggestion that USERNAME provided work for you?

If so, please click Accept as Solution on the posts that helped you so others in the community can find them easily.

Thank you and have a great day!

[EngrInamullah]

hello sir! can you share the details of the agreement between the universities and autodesk,with how many universities you have this agreement? and if any university wanted to do this kind of agreement whats the criterion and the process of that?  

[pbardati]

Has there been any change in offering a student version of BIM 360 Design?  What a great way for Autodesk to promote this technology - by putting it in the hands of grad students heading into the workplace soon.  Please advise if a student version is available yet.   Thank you in advance.

[bsimpsonBGP3R]

Markus, 

If you could share with your team that as a professional, I feel this would be incredibly beneficial to students, especially now with remote learning. Often, Universities do not even teach the use of Revit or Autodesk products, but students wish to learn and use the software to further their experience and increase their relevance to the professional world.

Many schools also lockdown networks so that worksharing is not possible. Offering student licensing would allow collaboration and learning for them, which in turn would help their careers.

[wendy.busschots]

@anil_mistry could you please inform me on how to apply for educational use (University).

We would-be like to use BIM360/Autodesk Build for studentes projects (cloud collaboration Revit / issues / clash detection / …)

[RSomppi]

https://damassets.autodesk.net/content/dam/autodesk/www/industries/education/docs/BIM-360-FAQ-for-ed...

[wendy.busschots]

@RSomppi that’s an old link (BIM360 Teams - before BIM360 Next Gen and the succesor Autodesk Build) so it’s not active any longer.

I’ll go for Trimble Connect - thats free for students 😉

[melonieb24T5V]

Please let us know how our schools can apply for this.

[mkadhimQVTVX]

Hello. please let me know if there have been any updates on providing this for students. We currently have a lot of architectural team projects using revit which will be getting more complex and I need to work on the model with my partner at the same time. Thank you!

[RSomppi]

You educational institution should be providing you a solution if it is a necessary part of the course.

There are alternative ways to do this, too. Having the model reside on a network and using remote desktop to computers on that network is one way.

[MelonieB]

The solution is for an educational institutions paying money they don't have for the server (because most schools have government funding) and then 200+ licenses (at least for my school). Yes, I can see how this would work. 

Schools also cannot support a network that has that many models residing on it. Not to mention that Revit Servers are a thing of the past, as are stand-alone models, and completely skips the features of collaborating online. Stand-alone models may have still been feasible back in 2017, but absolutely everything has moved to the online platform. The issue is that Autodesk does not make this available for us to train and simulate real project scenarios. The students we have are the future of collaboration. Yet, we are only able to teach them 40% of what they need to know through practical use of Revit, and then screen shots for the rest. 

[RSomppi]

I'm sorry, I thought I was responding to someone else and offering up an option that could be quite feasible.

Have you considered expressing your opinions in the product feedback or IDEAS pages? Maybe starting  blog?

Good day.

[MelonieB]

Yep, twitter, and forums, and oddly enough, I did speak to someone from Autodesk this week, and they said there is no solution, nor anyone to talk to about it. Sad times! 

[RSomppi]

I can think of at least two but I've got a feeling you would poop on them.

[morzechowska75BD2]

Hello, Is there any change to this ability for students to work collaboratively through BIM 360 via educational license? Not including this in educational licenses is quite detrimental to those of us trying to teach collaboration through this tool. Also, any recommendations on alternate ways they could collaborate instead if this feature is not activated would be appreciated.

[wendy.busschots]

@morzechowska75BD2 
Last year I participated in the Autodesk Summer School (https://www.autodesk.com/education/industries/construction/summer-school)
Afterwards I could apply for a Autodesk Construction Cloud for educational use.
Read the summer school documentation/slides and you'll find contact information.
You could also try  to reach construction.cloud.edu@autodesk.com

[RSomppi]

You can work collaboratively on a network. You can use that for your workshared models.

[wendy.busschots]

Yes - it's possible with Collaborate Pro (workshared models).