I have Auto CAD on my personal computer but my brother does not and he lives in Raleigh. He is in Mech. Eng. at state and we were trying to work on something together but needed CAD to do it. I know you can download lots of software from somewhere on our site but didn't know if there was a free educational version a student could download for something like this via NCSU.

10/18/2007 2:37:50 PM

tell him to take it to ITECs building and they will install it (i think, i know they do for solidworks) and then he just has to login to use it.

OR

He could just make a vcl.ncsu.edu reservation and use autocad from there.

10/18/2007 3:19:18 PM

No. The site license that the University holds for Autodesk products explicitly prohibits installing it on student-owned and personally-owned machines. He'll have to either use vcl.ncsu.edu, or buy an academic version on his own. There are no other ways to get it from the university, period.

10/18/2007 10:32:06 PM

you can get it for free from autocad

http://students4.autodesk.com/

10/18/2007 11:04:36 PM

^ From what I've seen on their site in the past, they make AutoCAD derivatives available, but not the standard AutoCAD program.

10/19/2007 8:01:32 AM

^^^^

to clarify:

the ITECS help desk (engineering) is in 204 Daniels

they used to install SolidWorks

but now installs take place in 412 Poe

10/19/2007 8:46:08 AM

^^ here is the list of software that is available for free for download:

autodesk inventor
autocad electrical
autodesk aliasstudio
autodesk 3dsmax
revit architecture
revit structure
revit MEP
revit BIM solution
autocad civil 3d
autocad map 3d
autodesk impression
autodesy maya
autodesk motion builder
autodesk viz

now im not an expert on autocad, but surely one of those is the main program

[Edited on October 19, 2007 at 10:23 AM. Reason : software list

10/19/2007 10:16:34 AM

no, it's not.

the "main" one is AutoDesk Architectural Desktop

10/19/2007 10:31:45 AM

actually no it's not.

Autodesk AutoCAD is the original, most used by engineers, manufacturers, etc.

Autodesk Architectural Desktop is a derivative for architects

10/19/2007 10:50:20 AM

^and Autodesk Land Desktop for civil

10/19/2007 3:05:56 PM