Autodesk Student Community Gets Overhauled

Looks like the Autodesk Student Community received a major renovation.

Having used the Autodesk Student Community for over seven years I have to say it has not always been the most user friendly website.  In fact, it used to be very difficult to find out how to access different areas of the website.  I remember when the Education Community rolled over one million members...  

The latest update makes a student member feel like a paying subscription member.  In fact, this is the first time the student site is directly connected with Autodesk's main site.  This makes sense to me.  If the ultimate goal is to convert a free student license to a paying subscription license, you might as well get them used to the subscription center.  There are some cool show reels and links to all of the great workshops Autodesk offers for free.

Definitely head on over a take a look.  If you are a student and are not taking advantage of all of the FREE software offered to you... What are you waiting for?!

Click here to Access the Autodesk Education Community 

Revit 2014 for Students Finally Available!!!

........ In French .......

Go over to the Student Community and see if you have your language....

Oh, and don't forget... If you have issues with the activation screen to check out my post for a solution...  I had to update the HTML files again (every install seems to need it)....

How to Download Free Autodesk Software as a Student

I do get questions about how to download and use the free software offered by Autodesk to Students... Well, here is a nice video explaining the process...



Source:
AutodeskCare, Everyone loves free stuff, right? Free food, free...
http://autodeskcare.com/post/33230157617/everyone-loves-free-stuff-right-free-food-free

New Autodesk BIM Curriculum / Materials

Getting Ready to Go Back to School: Autodesk BIM Learning Resources

Building Information Modeling Tools to Help You Build the Future

Check out the newly updated Autodesk® BIM Workshop - the online learning resource center with educational tools for architecture, civil engineering, structural engineering, and construction management studies. The site is designed so students can easily drill down into a specific discipline or field-of-study to access a wide selection of videos, tutorials, and interactive learning tools.

Check out all the great learning material available to you on the BIM Workshop, just in time for Back to School!

Autodesk BIM Curriculum

This curriculum is designed to help prepare architecture, engineering, and construction management students for professional practice by exploring BIM sustainable design practices along with integrated project delivery (IPD) concepts. Students and graduates can more fluidly design and communicate, test, and plan using BIM models in an IPD framework. The BIM curriculum contains student workbooks that highlight essential concepts and learning goals and are accompanied by comprehensive learning tools, instructional videos, and datasets. 

New Autodesk Structural Engineering Curriculum

The new Autodesk® Structural Engineering curriculum was created to introduce Structural Design and Analysis to help students efficiently design, analyze, document, and build their projects. The student workbooks, tutorial videos, and datasets support key that support the complete workflow from building structures to cloud computing to analysis and documentation. 

Autodesk Learning Center

Pretty cool little site that popped up within the Autodesk Education Community... Looks like anyone can use it.  The web site features a product selection and search field.  It looks to me like it searches many different sources including the Autodesk Wiki.

Check it out for yourself!  What do you think?

Autodesk Sustainable Design and BIM Workshop

There are a few awesome new web sites launched by Autodesk and within Autodesk's Education Community.  I would also like to point out that when I first started this blog in 2009 the Education Community  had about 800,000 members... Now, it has almost 3 million!  I think that is a testimony to all the great things Autodesk is doing and has been doing in the Education Community.  If you are a student and not a member, sign up now! It is worth it.  Here is a little snippet about it:

Gain BIM and Sustainable Design Expertise--and Get Ahead!

To remain competitive in today's job market, you must be able to incorporate BIM and sustainability strategies into your designs. Autodesk® has two new great online resources available to students that can help you learn how.

The Autodesk Sustainability Workshop has informative videos and tutorials designed to get you up to speed on concepts like passive heating and cooling, efficient HVAC design, lighting and daylighting, and more. This site demonstrates how to apply sustainability principles to solve real-world environmental challenges. Learn the principles of designing a net-zero energy building and create a more sustainable world.

Looking for more BIM learning resources? Check out the great new curriculum and other learning tools in the new Autodesk BIM Workshop. This online experience was created to prepare the next generation of architecture, engineering, and construction management students for professional practice. The site has an abundance of learning material, videos, and exercises designed to educate on BIM and sustainable design practices along with IPD concepts.

www.autodesk.com/bimworkshop

I have been searching around the websites and links above and there looks to be a lot of cool stuff.  So go check it out now!  Also, there were a few new additions to the BIM Curriculum and an awesome Net Zero Building video floating around the Education Community... (See below)

Videos on net-zero energy building from the Sustainability Workshop

http://sustainabilityworkshop.autodesk.com/strategy/energy-loads-and-net-zero-energy-buildings

Two new Units added to the BIM Curriculum

o   Unit 6 – Performance-Based Conceptual Design (featuring Project Vasari)

o   Unit 7 - Extending BIM Beyond Design: Modeling for Construction, Fabrication, and FM

Autodesk Education Community - Green Building Studio is now FREE for students!!

That is right... Green Building Studio is avaliable to students for FREE.  This is awesome news and I will most certainly be posting some videos in the future of how students, like myself, can use Green Building Studio in school.  Great stuff.

Autodesk Education Community News

Autodesk Green Building Studio Available Now
Autodesk® Green Building Studio® is now available on the Autodesk Education Community! Designed to help architects perform whole building analysis, the software keeps sustainability in mind earlier in the design process.

What's New on Autodesk Labs
Check out what's cooking in Autodesk Labs, home to innovative new technologies and collaborative development. Through an online forum, Labs provides the public with free, early access to prototypes, technology previews, and experimental web services.

Autodesk Yale University BIM Symposium Videos
View six great new videos of top university professors discussing implications of architecture pedagogy during a BIM Symposium co-hosted by Autodesk and Yale University.

Autodesk Revit Architecture German Tutorials
Created by Autodesk Student Experts from Graz University of Technology in Germany, these three new German Revit Architecture tutorials contain informative handouts, sample files and videos.

Autodesk Workshops at ACADIA Conference
Autodesk will host two workshops at the ACADIA conference October 18 – 20 at The Cooper Union in New York. Attendees of these workshops will learn Autodesk Revit Architecture and Autodesk Ecotect Analysis software. Register now!