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About Autodesk

Autodesk is a software company that makes 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software.  Students and educators can receive free licenses for software including:

• AutoCAD - general CAD software

• Fusion -  3D CAD, CAM, and CAE software

• Inventor - 3D CAD software

• 3ds Max - 3D modeling, animation, rendering, and compositing solution for games, film, and motion graphics artists

• Maya - 3D animation software

• Mudbox - digital painting and sculpting software

Many of the programs are Windows-only, but some of the design software runs on MacsmacOS and Linux.

Installation

Students and Faculty: register at  log in to https://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/featured to download the softwarehome using your Swarthmore email to set up an account and download software. Click on “Get Products” to see the list of software and download the installers.

After logging in, you can download full versions of most Autodesk software - much of it is for Windows only.

• Select

  Find the software you want to download

  , from list of Free Software (at bottom of page, click link for full list)Sign In again

  and click Get license

• Choose your version - School: deploy without network server

• Choose Operation system (will need 8GBs of RAM to run Windows 64-bit; 4GBs of RAM to run Windows 32-bit)
• Choose Language
• Click Download
  • Autodesk will automatically issue a product key and serial number for each download. 
• If installation fails, disable antivirus, and then try again.

Departmental lab use: Contact ITS (help@swarthmore