Help with running Revit 2018 free trial

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone,

my name is Nikolay, I am an architect. This morning I dounloaded Revit Architecture 2018 free 30 days trial.

I have received a message that dounloading was successful. When I tryed to run the program there was a message

that my licence has expired and I have 0 days of trial left. Please help if anyone knows how to solve this issue.

Do I need any additional licence or number or anything, if it is 30 days free trial period?

Thanks in advance.

[barthbradley]

Second or third time trying 30 trial? I remember a time when you could get away this that.  

[ennujozlagam]

You are only allowed one time installed trial versions for 30 days of any revit program in one machine, that what I know. thanks

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Thank you for your answer. First time trial. Anyway in the mean time the problem was solved. I should select

"I have alredy a licence" then in the window "run" and "activate" to click on "run". That solves the issue. Now my

Revit is OK and I enjoy the trial program.

[ennujozlagam]

Nice to hear that. Thanks

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately, Autodesk chose to NOT reply to my three attempts to get any help with the Revit Trial.

I thought I would try again after 30 days, but it looks like they do not want my business. I'm certain that support will not see this reply either. What a heck of a business model !

[ToanDN]

In short, you want a more-than-30-day trial?

[Anonymous]

What I have requested from Autodesk for over 30 days is simple suport in
getting a revit trial working. I am disappointed that I will not be able to
review the file my Architect sent me.

[barthbradley]

You can review the file your Architect sent you with this:  

https://www.autodesk.com/products/design-review/download

[ToanDN]

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@Anonymous wrote:
What I have requested from Autodesk for over 30 days is simple suport in
getting a revit trial working. I am disappointed that I will not be able to
review the file my Architect sent me.

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How was it not working exactly?  By the way, you can upload the Revit file to https://viewer.autodesk.com/designviews and view it online.

[Anonymous]

Support,

I downloaded the 'Design Review' per the link, however, the program does
not accept the file I was sent ending with *.lvsc

I seem to be running out of options. Thank you for your help though.

[ToanDN]

*lvsc is Revit Live file format.  You cannot open it in Revit.  You need to subscribe to Revit Live. which is an entire different animal.

https://www.autodesk.com/products/revit-live/overview

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-live-forum/bd-p/810

By the way, we are not "Support", just users like you.  

[barthbradley]

That's a Revit Live file

https://www.autodesk.co.uk/products/revit-live/free-trial

[Anonymous]

Thank you very much. I appreciate your help but can not get the Revit Live
download to work.
Apparently Autodesk defers to the Community to answer questions.
If I had the money to buy a subscription I would do that.

[ToanDN]

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@Anonymous wrote:
Thank you very much. I appreciate your help but can not get the Revit Live
download to work.
Apparently Autodesk defers to the Community to answer questions.
If I had the money to buy a subscription I would do that.

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Go to the Revit Live forum from this link for better answers: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-live-forum/bd-p/810

[barthbradley]

@Anonymous: Can't you just get the .rvt file from the architect?  

Also, a inexpensive way to obtain Revit, might be to enroll in local community college. Might qualify you for the Free Educational License.  

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/customer-service/account-management/education-program/who-can-join

[Anonymous]

I will ask for the *.rvt as you suggest.